Pack Train
Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula, Montana, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.86
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bb (18607) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma. Summer fruit and grapefruit flavor with light caramel. Medium bodied. Godo bitterness. Summer fruit and grapefruit linger with caramel.
Sledutah (12396) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle from the state store
Pours slightly cloudy golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma is floral, wet grass, mild bisquity and citrus. Flavor is floral, grapefruit, grassy, citrus peel and some alcohols
Ok
nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12oz bottle. Hazy, unfiltered orange-tan body. Thin off-white head. Not that impressive of an offering. Oily, perfume hop tones, resinous and sharp. Antiquated, boozy, harsh. Bitter, phenolic hop tones. Lacks any modern sensibilities.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy golden coloured body with a tiny bit of an off-white head, about a centimetre tall. Aroma of resin, grapefruit, pine, light citrus and way more resin notes - strong and noticeable. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong rich hop flavours with a nice sweet flavour from fruit and grain with a little citrus flavour and a lot of resin and bitterness. Aftertaste shows some dryness, a little bit of grain and a lot of residual hop flavours in the way of resin, grapefruit, pine and perfumey notes. Overall, a decent Imperial IPA with some good bitterness, a solid backbone and some smooth flavours that don’t show too much funky or bitter flavours. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Cash Wise Liqour in Minot, North Dakota yesterday on 04-October-2016 for US$11,99/mixed six pack sampled in my hotel room a day later on 05-October-2016.
bhensonb (22726) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours translucent gold with a white head. Aroma suggests tropical fruits and somewhat bready caramel. Med body. Flavor is definitely tropical fruits, and the malt is minimal support. There’s a resin/pine aspect that seems to be generating a burn on the back tongue edges. The great thing here is the fruit. This is great stuff.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Courtesy of Matt
Hazy golden color. Nice hoppy aroma, a bit dank, cedar peel, orange peel, chamomile, bread, eventually piney resins. Lean mouthfeel, delicate pale malts, very mild residual sweetness; good hop character, orange and some resin, marzipan.
The final bitterness is a bit too vegetable, but overall it’s very nice.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out loads of piney hops upfront, with a dry biscuity malt. Flavour is loaded with piney hops upfront, followed by a touch of sweetness from the malts. Dry, piney finish with a low astringency. Simple, but really well done. Excellent.
Rennat42 (5622) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle/Fest. A- Pine, citrus. A- Gold color, hazy liquid, white head. T- Pine, bitter. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bitter finish. O- Typical DIPA. Lots of pine and bitterness. Pretty one dimensional.
Bitterbill (4334) reviewed Pack Train from Big Sky Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Howler purchased at Liquor Shed in Casper.
A nice slightly hazy reddish gold with a 1 finger....quickly shrinking head of foam. It leaves some lacing behind.
The smell is mostly of piney hops. Being in the lower spectrum for the style, I was hoping for some kind of sweetish malt presence but I can’t seem to get any. I’m now getting a bit of grapefruit; it adds a nice touch to the hops but again, where’s the malt?
Taste fits the smell to a t. Almost. I DO get a slight hint of malt sweetness but it doesn’t seem consistent on every sip. There now, not there now. Currently, it’s there so I’ll judge the beer accordingly.
I have no qualms about the mouthfeel. Medium bodied with perfect carbonation.
Overall, it comes across, for me, as an amped up IPA without getting into serious malt territory. Maybe that’s a good thing cuz the abv is not very noticeable?