Oak-Aged IPA
Upstream Brewing Company in Omaha, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
7.04
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7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Frischer Hopfengeruch, etwas süßlich, wenig malzig. Verhalten hopfiger Antrunk, die aufkommende malzig-holzige Note dämmt dies schnell. Hier gefällt der würzig-süße Hintergrundton, der im Mittelteil stärker wird und nun ebenfalls den Hopfen übertrumpft bis sich dieser im Abgang erneut Gehör verschafft. Interessantes und relativ süßes IPA in dem der Hopfen den Ton nicht immer angibt. Vielen Dank an den Doppelbock für die Teilung des Bieres! Test vom 1.10.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 13,11,10,12,11,10 - 10,80
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2008
at 22:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thanks to iowaherkeye for this - hazy strawberry-colored beer - smells of oak, vanilla, pine-like hops, faint diacetyl - fairly herbal and hoppy for something barrel aged - faintly spicy, with underlying bready malt - the mild background earthiness that seems common to this brewer makes it seems more like a hoppy saison - the barrel adds an odd dimension that works better than I thought it would - not bad.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2008
at 19:21
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle purchased at Beertopia in Omaha, NE. Bottle 327 of 767 - bottled August 2007 brewed December 2006. Pour is hazy orange with a big fluffy white head which was quite lasting. Even 5 minutes later it was a rocky 2 inch head. Really pretty. Eventually (15 minutes later) the haziness mostly cleared. Aroma of musty citrus, pine and the oak woodiness. The smell was quite "cask" smelling. Taste was initially a bunch of the toasty oakiness, with some buttery butterscotch sweetness. The pine appeared in the middle and closed out the finish with some nice earthy bitterness. The oak is again really strong in the aftertaste, where it takes on a buttery chardonnay like complexity. In terms of an IPA, this was probably lacking, but as a general beer, I thought this was excellent. Really interesting experiment, I liked it!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2008
at 10:01