Firkløver IPA #05

Tap & the brewpub. Clear dark golden with a thin, lacing off-white head. Nice, fresh hoppy aroma with citric, grapefruit and mild caramel malt. Flavor feels refreshing fruity like aroma but has also a quite distinct malt base, mostly medium sweet caramel malt and OK bitterness. Fine balanced body and fruity bitter aftertaste with some caramel malt. Nothing outstanding or extraordinary but just a solid standard IPA.

On the Brewpub 301216. Golden-orange color with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop, pine, grapefruit. Flavor is fruit, malt, hop, pine, grapefruit, oranges. Easy drinkable beer.

On tap at the brewpub. Almost clear in the glass, topped by a small, dense, white head leaving lacing. The aroma is mostly on the hoppy side, with resiny notes doing most of the work, some grapefruit chiming in, and a caramel maltyness in the back. It’s full-bodied, smooth and nicely carbonated, with a soft bitterness. Mostly hoppy flavor too, more or less the same resins and grapefruits known from the aroma, and a light caramel maltyness as a backdrop. Not that it’s really caramel-ish, it’s mostly matly, but there’s a light caramel touch to it. Piney, grapefruity finish. In general I prefer more bitterness in my IPA’s, but it’s sure a tasteful and pleasant beer. 161226