Barfly IPA
Barley Island Brewing in Noblesville, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.62
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Dogbrick (24322) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
This beer is a clear copper color with a thin and dense off-white head that diminishes steadily. Stringy lacing. Citrusy hops in the nose with floral touches. Medium body with flavors of floral hops and citrus along with light malt. The finish is hoppy with a bitter aftertaste that does not linger too long. Decent overall.
jake65 (5819) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle: Pours a murky caramel color with a modest, creamy beige head. Smells strong of floral hops, but also wheaty. Maybe even a bit soapy? Taste is rather dry and abrasive. Florals, again soapy, and some wheat. Hot and brash. Plain and simple, I just didn’t like it.
jcwattsrugger (14801) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
on tap-pours a light tan head that laces and amber color. Aroma is northwest hops-grapefruit. Taste is sweet northwest hops-grapefruit/slight bitter, some medium malt. *@Indiana Beerfest-on cask-pours a white ring for a head and hazy gold color. Aroma is pine-hops (Chinook?), some medium malt. Taste is resin/pine-hops (Chinook?), some medium malt. Minimum carbonation.
dwest (2978) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
bottle. decent IPA. good hop flavor...not overly strong but pretty smooth. I’d call this average overall
Boutip (9839) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtesy of Indybigtom: Poured a cloudy orangey color ale with a nice foamy head with OK retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of bitter dry hops is dominating with some light caramel malt. Taste is also dominated by some dry bitter hops with no floral or citrus notes and some very light caramel malt. Body is quite full with some good carbonation.
Irishboy (4684) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz bottle from acknud; thanks!!! Nose of lemony hops, light malt, and a background fruitiness; cloudy orange with a big straw head, heavily lacing the glass; flavor has moderate hop bitterness, with a light caramel malt background and some light lemony bitterness for a finish!
jcr (3164) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 14
Hazy copper pour with foamy off-white head. The beer looks thick and feels thick and has a decent balance between bittering hops and sweet malts. Citrus aromas of grapefruit with notes of pine and flowers. Some caramel in the background. The flavor is moderately bitter and lightly sweet. Thick mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Finish is bitter. A bit too full-bodied for my taste in an IPA, but certainly ejoyable enough nonetheless.
shrubber (15840) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Caramel malt with a light pepper/pine hops aroma. Hazy amber with a ton of white particulate matter that remains suspended in the beer like grapes in Jello. Moderate head. Slightly sweet caramel/butter malt flavor initially followed by a strong bitter pine hops finish - from the aroma wasn’t sure if this was going to have much hops to it but it didn’t disappoint. Strong diacetyl notes for an IPA - very different.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is orange with a white head. Aroma is a very nice and deep pine hop with a malty backbone. Flavor loses something. Still there are decent amount of pine and citrus hops along with some caramel malts. Still pretty decent as this has a decent hop kick to this one.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Barfly IPA from Barley Island Brewing 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
2006 bottle from MI2CA drunk on 1/11/07
Can’t figure out the bottling methods of these guys. It says unfiltered/unpasteurized on the bottles, though it dosent say bottle conditioned. The bottle of barrel-aged oatmeal stout was one of the most filtered, watery, loose tasting beers I’ve ever had nor did it have any sediment. This one, howver, has some definite protein dropout, which despite my best efforts got in to my glass, and the very last shot in the bottle (for experimentation) is completely cloudy. The ruby-auburn-tinged caramel body is light on carbonation, though a fair amount of dark beige head does form, showing medium retention and little/no lacing.
Sweet cherries and strawberries in the nose brush against the nose rather coarsely, while leafy, green hop aromatics provide grapefruit and orange rind notes. Definite crystal maltiness sweetens things to a point, then seems to harden and dry out, with light yeast doughiness and moderate breadiness. Every subsequent smell, however, is alive with fresh hop aromatics, fruity esters and balanced, sweet malt, it just seems to suffer on the finish, somewhat. So based on the aroma, I suppose the evidence is in favor of it being unpasteurized at least. We’ll have to leave it to the flavor/texture to determine the rest.
Bittersweet malt and hops collide, with a strong earthiness and tangy grapefruit flavors that both give way to a ruby red grapefruit sweetness mixed with cherries and moderate herbal notes. Whatever the medium malt being used, it comes across clearly and quite well. The caramel-toffee sweetness is well matched and for once some hop acidity is much appreciated in balancing it. Mostly substantial texture, with moderately engaging carbonation. Ok, I’ll buy that this stuff is lightly to not filtered and just conditioned well. Not sure on the carbonation, I suspect it’s forced, but that’s ok, I’ll let them off the hook for that. It comes across well enough.