Clown Shoes The Train I Ride

The Train I Ride

 

Clown Shoes in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Triple Regular Out of Production
Score
7.34
ABV: 11.0% IBU: - Ticks: 14
Like a headlight on a northbound train, The Train I Ride shines bright through sleet, snow, and the interstellar mists. We’ve traveled far and gathered great finds, but this here Train still has miles to go before we sleep. This Triple IPA was brewed in celebration of our 8th anniversary, and packs a wallop of hoppy delight. Using Columbus, Galaxy, and Mosaic hops, The Train I Ride fills a glass with overwhelming hop aroma and a salacious hop-forward body featuring pine and citrus notes and a complex and earthy mouthfeel.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Pours a ckearish amber from bottle. Some tropical fruits and sticky toffee and burn.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:56


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

A fairly recent acquisition, I am concerned about this 22 oz bomber of The Train I Ride. A stamp on the bottle shows a born on date of 4/27/18, some time back for an IPA. What to do? Drink it of course. I pop the cap and pour into a Cowtown Brewing snifter. It arrives a clear, medium yellow topped by a slender white coating. The nose, tangerine, shaved pine and something slightly medicinal. A drink at last, yes, pretty nice. Here comes mown grass, cedar, a fair push of hops, honey and pineapple. Not rewriting the book on potent IPAs, a masked abv, but not falling down either.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2019 at 02:22


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Pretty sure I'm drinking this a bit past its prime as an IPA, but as a hopped-up barleywine...not bad. Massive front of caramel, orange marmalade, and peach, backed up by grapefruit, pencil shavings, and pine, with hints of chive and dank circling the periphery. Woody finish could use a touch more bitterness--age brings out the bottle's sweet side--but the lingering notes of citrus and caramel make for a pleasant fade. Booziness stays mostly hidden despite the formidable ABV. Nose is a tad unpleasant, with damp malt and musty cardboard undermining the alcohol-tinged sweetness, but everything else works well. Nice pint.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Nov 2018 at 03:07


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

650 ml bottle. Pours a dark amber with moderate head. Aromas of candied orange, toffee, and sweet malts. Flavors follow same but with a nice balance bitter toastiness and a bit of pine. Except of the end which is sweet malty toffee.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2018 at 02:26


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

22 ounce bottle. Hazy honey gold pour. Massive frothy white head. Minerally malt nose hints at pine and sweet woodruff. Spicy, bittersweet toasted malt flavor upfront. Hints of lemon peel, bitters and pink peppercorns. Smooth, bitter flavor throughout. Boozy like a well-worn floosy. Intense, yet flavorful. Looks good, tastes good, must be good.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2018 at 04:14


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

32oz crowler pours with a clear copper body that supports a thin light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts, a blunted spike of caramel, earthy hoppy bread and some pine hops. The taste delivers fairly smooth malt sweetened pine hops, a faint sweet breadiness and then heading into earthy spicy bread somehow. Toward the finish are more pine hops, a hit of caramel and then some booze. A little jumbled and incoherent.

Tried from Crowler on 30 May 2018 at 23:53


7.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

650 ml bottle from Canada Craft Beer Club - A very well constructed imperial with an interesting fruity yeast profile, but a slight lack of hop complexity. Bouteille de 650 ml. Petits tons de terre et fruité de levure aux accents de jujubes servent d'entrée à l'olfactif. Les tons de terre s'accentuent au tournis laissant même présager un défaut. Soupçon de fruits tropicaux et d'ananas. Liquide ambré très légèrement voilé et recouvert d'une épaisse mousse crémeuse. Puissante chaleur d'alcool sur des tons plutôt fruités en entrée de bouche.Présence de résine issue d'un houblonnage à froid sur une finale tranchante aux allures de conifère. Fruité de levure et de houblonnage bien balancé. Le corps est ample; la texture grasse et l'effervescence douce. Une impériale bien construite avec un fruité de levure intéressant mais un léger manque de complexité des saveurs issues des houblons.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2018 at 21:44


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pours clear gold into a tulip. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes to pancake surface. Hot caramel and resin aromas. Thick with dank resin and hot caramel upfront turning to bitter earth in the lasting burn finish. Quite hot.

Tried on 22 Apr 2018 at 21:24


9.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bomber from Total Wine and More in Chantilly, VA Aroma: caramel, citrus, resin, tropical fruit, earthy, floral Appearance: clear golden with an off-white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: full body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish, Delicious

Tried on 14 Apr 2018 at 01:30


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pomegranate and grapefruit nose. Clear amber, thick head, yellow head. Triple sec, lemongrass, vegetal. Medium body, soft carbonation, hot.

Tried on 27 Feb 2018 at 03:26