IPA
Vale Brewing in Willunga, South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA Regular|
Score
6.50
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SimonF (3322) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle) Clear deep, slightly ruddy, golden with almost no head. Gentle interesting aroma with a mix of fruitiness, herbs and a slight flintiness. Light body with good carbonation. Light fruity start with little sweetness developing into a rather aggressive hoppy bitterness, which to me seemed to lack the complex tastes and was somewhat dull and aggressive. Pleasant enough, but doesn’t really do it for me.
Oakes (33493) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Amber, with just a slight haze and a fairly rich bubbly head. Peachy-marmaladey aroma is pleasing. Light grapefruity bitterness, mild caramelly malts, fruity hops. Balanced if mellow IPA.
Sledutah (12313) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle picked up at The Oak Barrel
Slightly cloudy golden with a small off-white head and spotty lacing. Aroma of fruit and herbal. Flavors of fruit, herbal and citrus
Decent.
gnoff (11188) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Draught as part of a tasting paddle at The Australian Hotel on July 12, 2013.Cloudy yellow to brown murky color, white head. Fruity, hoppy, sweet, caramel taste. Hoppy, citrus, herbal aftertaste. A bit fizzy mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
danlo (13133) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle. Pours a clear amber colour, big frothy off-white head and aroma of citrus & resiny hop. Taste is malt caramel with earthy sweetish floral orange citrus and light pine bitterness. Smooth mouth feel, light to medium bodied, medium carbonation, dry finish. Quite drinkable IPA.
TimE (11146) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
light amber color. Moderately hoppy , dry, somewhat fruity. Fairly plain IPA.
LesArgen (1205) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
There's a surprising amount of sweet malt, and I even get a bit of aspirin in the aftertaste. The aroma is grapefruit, pine, apricot, honey and biscuit. I don't hate it.
Davros (5279) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours dark amber with a large head.Nose shows some tropical fruit along with grapefruit. A fair bit of peach too. Some clean malt underneath.Similar flavours; some tropical fruit and a bit of caramel malt.Carbonation is too high.Good to see Vale do a good beer.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From a 330ml bottle on 12/5/2012. Not sure why has this been classified as an APA on here. Pours a slightly cloudy copper colour with an excessive head. Has a quite pleasant fruity, floral, hoppy aroma. The flavour is a bit disappointing and confused, with a slightly tart fruitiness (stone fruits) up front, followed by a blunt and quite long hop bitterness. Has an element of home brew about it. Certainly more interesting than other McLaren Vale efforts, but it should be given the style and the fact that the other beers I’ve tried from this brewer have been very ordinary indeed.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed IPA from Vale Brewing 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap. Hazy orange/ amber with a small white head. Aroma has citrus, gooseberries, vanilla, some caramel and pine. Taste is mildly sweet, but it’s rather empty in the malt department. Nectarines, gooseberries and passionfruit hop flavours are quite nice. Thinnish body, brief finish with modest bitterness. OK. [3.1]Guess that had been on awhile. Bottle. Much sharper citrus aroma, perhaps more tropical fruit too. Shows up - with a little pine - in the taste too. If anything, accentuates the emptiness of the malt side.