War Paint Red IPA
The Beer Research Institute in Mesa, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.61
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
On tap at the brewery. Amber with a small head. Sweetish with grapefruit, caramel, malt and some butter. Not the best one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at The Beer Research Institute, pours a hazy orange amber with a small white head. Aroma brings out piney hops, some resins, and bready caramel malt. Flavour is along the same lines, with a lovely hop resinous quality, some floral notes and bready caramel notes. Well-constructed, clean and full of punch. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Growler pours with a deep dark amber body that has dark red hues and supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up sweet malts, some caramel malts, a nice layer of spicy hops, earthy sort of fruitiness and just a hint of pine. The taste is similar where I get smooth, almost silky, sweet malts rolling into malt and caramel malt sweetened spicy and earthy hops. To midway the sweetness persists as the hops take on a more bitter and resiny edge that is nearly even in strength with the sweetness and creates a malt sweetened pine hop sensation. It seems this could be a bit less sweet and it can lose the caramel almost diacetyl sensation.