Old School IPA
Concord Craft Brewing Company in Concord, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
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6.64
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Our IPA is one of our flagship beers. It is balanced in the traditional English IPA style, with a rich color and a more complex malt profile than many IPAs. It has a big flavor as any IPA should and clocks in at 6.6% alcohol by volume (ABV). Every pint is packed with 3 types of malt and 3 different hop varieties. The rich flavor profile is obvious from the first sip all the way through the last gulp. In beer, as in life, we feel balance is best. The hop flavors are balanced by the smooth and sweet generous 2 row and caramel malts used. If you are going to have just one beer, this is the one. You will get your flavor’s worth!
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6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at the brewery, 7/30/17.
Rich, warm, honey-toned orange-golden, clear with a well-retained, white head.
Bread and butter in the nose is joined quickly by big, estery, fruits. Apple, strawberry, pear, etc...which are in turn overtaken by spicy, strongly floral and marmalade-like hops. Lots of black pepper and candied orange lingering. Whereas the vastly overboiled bittering hops in the Senatah are exacerbated by the extremely light, sparse malt base, here at least there's much more plentiful malt to "balance".
To that end it's got great English characteristics; bread, butter, strong fruitiness with floral and spicy hop notes but it continues and builds with too much astringent, harsh resin. Dry and malty and again clean with ample, engaging carbonation. Pity about the hop treatment in the IPAs.
Rich, warm, honey-toned orange-golden, clear with a well-retained, white head.
Bread and butter in the nose is joined quickly by big, estery, fruits. Apple, strawberry, pear, etc...which are in turn overtaken by spicy, strongly floral and marmalade-like hops. Lots of black pepper and candied orange lingering. Whereas the vastly overboiled bittering hops in the Senatah are exacerbated by the extremely light, sparse malt base, here at least there's much more plentiful malt to "balance".
To that end it's got great English characteristics; bread, butter, strong fruitiness with floral and spicy hop notes but it continues and builds with too much astringent, harsh resin. Dry and malty and again clean with ample, engaging carbonation. Pity about the hop treatment in the IPAs.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2017
at 20:34