Hill City India Pale Ale
Chattanooga Brewing Co. in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.43
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Chattanooga, pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out piney hops, with a slight herbal and earthy character, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour reveals herbal hops upfront, with toasted bready malt and a touch of sweet caramel. A bit too herbal - not the best hop expression. It's okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at brewery. Hazy yellow-orange colour, small steady white head and lace. Riped tropical fruits and citrus in the nose. Medium-bodied. Flavour has citrus and riped tropical fruits too. Clean ok but quite standard.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap-offwhite head with trailing lace-gold. A-pine. T-pine hops with some bite, 2nd lt malt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Pretty, but that’s about as positive as I can get. Starts off with a pleasant biscuity malt sweetness, then transitions into a bitter, medicinal finish strong in IBUs but lacking in any other positive hop attributes--no citrus, weed, or piney fun, just a steady, flat, basic bitter meanness. Heavy-handed and dull, overhopped and underdeveloped.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On draught at Taco Mamacita. The beer pours a hazed orange color with a medium foamy off-white head that diminishes steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, hops and malt. Medium-bodied with a moderately bitter hops character and grapefruit and toasted malt flavors. The finish is hoppy with a citrus aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Growler Dark copper body with a tall, creamy, off white head. The aroma has some earthy funky hops and mild citrus with a bit of pine in the back. Mildly bitter from start to finish with the underlying malt coming in at the end - reminds me more of a double IPA than IPA. Medium body. This seems to have a bit more kick to it than the 6% listed. Respectable local IPA.