Ipacious IPA
North Mountain Brewing Company in Phoenix, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
7.01
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
64oz grolwer (listed at the brewpub as 7.7% ABV and 68 IBUs) pours with a crystal clear deep copper to amber body that supports a tall cobwebby tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a blend of caramel to crystal malts, piney hops, some earthy onion dankness, a few spikes of grapefruit and then a bit more malts filling in here and there. The taste begins smooth with malts but quickly slides into a pleasing degree of modestly resiny but fully bitter pine hops as well as thin layers of earthy tea like hop notes and then malt sweetened grapefruit and orange rind. It stays pretty bitter from here into the finish were to adequate malt bill keeps the hops softened some and in check the whole way. Lurking well off in the background I seem to be getting echoes of sweet malty fruity esters from time to time. That note is light right now and not really destruction from the experience.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
GABF 2014
Dark golden with a small off-white head. Aroma is floral and oily. Flavors of diesel, oily and pine resin
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