Northern Lights
(has 2 batches)
Starr Hill Brewery in Crozet, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.62
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A perfect blend of barley and American hops makes this a well-balanced, flavorful India pale ale.
ABV: 6.2%
HOPS: Columbus, Cascade, Centennial, Simcoe & Falconer’s Flight
ABV: 6.2%
HOPS: Columbus, Cascade, Centennial, Simcoe & Falconer’s Flight
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 355ml @ O’Brien’s Oyster Bar & Restaurant, Annapolis, MD
Pours hazy dark golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel and citrus. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy dark golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel and citrus. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2011
at 08:08
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
Thanks to my friend John Dings for this beer. Aroma is somewhat sweet and mild floral hops, very pleasant and not in your face like many IPA smell. That’s just a facade, because its no indication of the first tate. First taste is a big smack in the face of large bitter hoppy flavors, like many IIPA, yes even DIPA. Initially, its off like it wants to befriend you, then it turns its tale and gives you the finger. Palate? What palate? Any indication of mouth feel or co2 is covered by this medicinal hop oily mouth coating rudeness. The nasty bitter middle finger, plowing across your lips and down the sides of your tongue as it reaches for the back of your throat. I’d swear this stuff is near 7 or 8%. Bitter nellie negative lingering bad medicine finish. All I can say is this stuff is much more IPA than John indicated. Terribly on style, heheh ;~) If you like IPA, better try this bitter hoppy monster. Thanks John, for ruining my taste buds!
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2011
at 14:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at The Heights. Bright amber color, large off white head, decent lacing. Aroma of subtle pine. Taste is mildly bitter and well balanced, but plain. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jun 2011
at 15:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle-pours a white head with copper color. Aroma is sweet light/medium malt, some fruit/pine. Taste follows, better as it gets to cellar temp.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2011
at 05:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a hazy orange with a medium head and aromas of grain dust, light citrus and grass. Flavor is better than aroma, but lacks a little direction. It’s a nice enough mix (maybe the caramel is a bit too sweet and strong) of malt and herbal and tropical fruit hops flavors. I’m not picking up any harsh light citrus or pine that I associate with Cascade, so that seems a little odd, but hey... I learn new stuff trying beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2011
at 21:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours clear amber color with off white head. Floral, pine and grapefruit hop aromas with some maltiness. Moderately bitter flavor with some pine and grapefuit with caramel sweetness. Medium body with average carbonation.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2011
at 16:02
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 10, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, fruity. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, orange, peel bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100803]
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Dec 2010
at 12:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle shared. Murky orange-tan. Thin oily head laces the rim of the glass. Rich, thick, heavy caramel hop aroma. Pretty solid beer, very clean and spot on style-wise. Somewhat soapy and resinous, quite a balanced IPA, with some solid malt tones submerged in the orange. lemon hop wash. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2010
at 21:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle via trade with drowland. Pours brown with white head. Semi clear. Nose and taste of hops, caramel malts, pine and citrus. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2010
at 16:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Mad Hatter, DC tap ($6): Pours a very nice light amber color with a straight up white head that lasts for quite a while (think it is because it was on draught). Aroma is of piny and floral hops. At first, the main thing that I got out of this beer was a lot of piny hops. Moderate bitterness. Not overkill. Then as it warmed up the citrus flavors became a little bit more apparent. Quite enjoyable
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Aug 2010
at 07:37