Bristol Brewing Company Ivywild School Tropical Pale Ale

Ivywild School Tropical Pale Ale

 

Bristol Brewing Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.90
ABV: 6.9% IBU: - Ticks: 4
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7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can at the flat in Sofia - sourced from 100 Beers online. Pours clear gold with a foamy, white head. Medium sweet flavour with nice pine needle bitterness, semi-ripe tangerine, orange, some bready pale malts, grass. Light bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Sturdy piney-grassy bitterness to finish, some citrus rind, more juicy tangerine, lemon, grapefruit. Good stuff, nice drinking beer.
Tried from Can on 22 Dec 2021 at 11:25

6.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Healthy notes of grapefruit, lemon pith, and pine, backed up by mild passion fruit and pineapple, with a toasted grain undertone and moderate pine bitterness on the finish. Lands closer to a traditional old-school West Coast IPA than a tropical pale ale, but not bad.
Tried on 03 Aug 2020 at 21:46

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Pint at the brewery. Pours a clear, golden color, with a big, bubbly, off-white head. The nose is pineapple, sawdust, bread dough, and orange peel. Sweet and malty, with a mild bitterness. Light to medium body, with a crisp, dusty palate. This is a reasonable pale ale, but lackluster.
Tried on 08 Oct 2019 at 14:46

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Got in a trade with beergoot. 12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 3/6/2019. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy deep golden amber color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of mandarin orange, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, guava, blueberry, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, honey, biscuit dough, toast, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big mandarin orange, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, guava, blueberry, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, honey, biscuit dough, toast, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of mandarin orange, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, guava, blueberry, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, honey, biscuit dough, toast, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly crisp/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.2%. Overall this is a delicious American pale ale. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt flavors; very smooth, refreshing, and fairly crisp to drink with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish; not aggressive. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Awesome Mandarina, Citra, Mosaic, Azacca profile. Very juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a great clean bready Vienna malt backbone for the ABV. Mild residual sweetness with crisp resin drying. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive spot on style example. Loved the hop profile as expected.
Tried from Can on 30 Jun 2019 at 18:16