India Pale Ale

330ml bottle. Cloudy pinkish amber colour with average to huge, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Sourish fruity aroma, hints of plum, cherries, red berries, hay. Taste is tart to sourish fruity, a touch of red currant, gooseberry, dry hints of fruit parings. Has not much - if not nothing - to do with an IPA; would qualify as Sour Ale, but probably it’s just infected. And, by the way, once and for all, a note to the brewers and merchandisers of German IPAs: please stop spreading the colonial history myth of IPAs and the necessity of intense hopping for storage life purposes. Have a look at Mitch Steele’s book ’IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale’. Just do a good beer with a caramel malt backbone and some adequate hopping. Damn.

Bottle:Amber coloured, stable yellowish head with a little lace, sourish nose with llts of vegetable, some impotent hops in the background; moderate bitter-sweet flavour with a sourish touch, very light bodied for a beer of 8.0%; slightly lingering sourish-bitter finish. A beer of poor quality, surely infected, even though the BBF is 01/14…

33 cl bottle @ Timo A, BBE 01.01.2014
Aroma has caramel, vegetable notes, citrus and gooseberry bush. Flavour is messy with gooseberry bush, caramel and nettles. Messy and quite nothing to do with IPA. Not a complete disaster though.

Bottle. Dirty orange brown with a thin head. Aroma is some hop and marmalade. Flavour is fruity wheat, light hop on a jammy finish, more bock than IPA, but not unpleasant.

Thanks to jonas for that one! Bottle looks really, really good. Beer in the glass dusty-turbid, small head. Moldy-hoppy aroma. Starts strong, malty, modest dry. Still quite moldy-grasy. I really miss some intense hoppy notes. Not a good IPA!

Dunkel hopfiger Antrunk, helle Würzigkeit mit deutlichen Hefenoten. Zum Ende dunkler, trocken, leicht bananig. Nettes IPA mit Weizennähe. 11/9/10/9/10/9

bottle from the brewery’s webshop. Cloudy golden colour, creamy white head. Aroma of citrusy hops and yeast, also fruit. Full-bodied, malty base with a nice yeasty touch, banana and citrus fruit coming through the hops, slightly bitter only, yet nicely hopped. Like a mixture of a Weizenbock and an IPA. The beer has got the yeastiness and banana flavours of the Weizenbock and the hops of an IPA. Interesting and good stuff.