12oz. bottle from Bert’s Better Beers. Good looking brew. Thick lacing in a somewhat transparent gold color. The nose is very lightly hopped. Mostly pale malts. Some easy malt and bread like qualities. Almost no hops in the finish. Feels very much like an APA rather than a true IPA. No way to tell the age, but I know Bert doesn’t sell old beer so…. This is a very low end IPA. Not bad, just nothing to get excited about.

A golden IPA with a thin white head. A light c-hops in aroma over smooth mlats. In mouth, a rather light and non-descript IPA, wiht light biscuitty malt, light c-hops, a bit of a dissapointment. Tasted Dec. 19 2009.

12 oz. bottle. Loose bottle rack at Jewel, Downers Grove. With this rating, I hit 64 different beers in one month, surpassing Nov. 2007 as my Best Beer Month Ever!™ Pours a gold to amber IPA color under a foamy cream-colored head. Smell seems to bring in both English earthy hops and American citrus. Taste bears a firm hop pine start. Needs a little more malt to back this one up, though. American hops build up more as I go further in. I’m surprised to say this needs to be more than just a blast of pine and bitterness. Yet another IPA with a fish on the label. How two-hearted of them! (And apparently, the trout originally named Dolly Varden in the 1870’s, probably went extinct in the river where it was first named.

Bottle from a discount grocery in Sacramento, CA. Pours orange amber with a decent white head. Aroma is sort of honey over hop and light caramel. Less than medium body with ok carbonation. Flavor is a bit watery, and caramel, with not quite enough floral hop. Some papery notes. Finishes astringent. Good considering the price.

Bottle from Enniskillen; nose of citrus and light hoppiness; orange-gold witha mediumoff-white head; flavor of oranges and hop bitterness which also is the finish. An average, medoiocre, but drinkable IPA. Beats Bud any day!

Golden-amber. Woody-grapefruity C hops with a toasty, breadcrusty pale malt background. Toasty, very woody profile with low-to-moderate bitterness. Not bad, but too indistinctive for a world filled with brash, expressive IPA goodness.

Bottle poures a hazy light orange/yesslow with a modest white head and some streaks of lacing. Grassy piney aroma. Light malt flavor and suffecient bittering but lacking in much character.