Certified Organic India Pale Ale
Eel River Brewing Company in Fortuna, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.26
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Brewed with the finest organic malts and hops, our IPA features a bright-minted copper color and a crisp, yet smooth hop bitterness. Pale and crystal malts come through with a malty caramel sweetness, balanced with aggressively clean burst of fresh hop flavor in the middle palate without lingering bitter astringency. A strong floral and citrus character from generous dryhopping blends with strawberry esters from our house yeast strain for an inviting and satiating aroma.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. A nice IPA with a warm, light orange hue and a pure white head. Nose is light, floral and citrus. Flavor is also light on the bitterness but still pleasant. Crisp, mildly hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Feb 2010
at 09:50
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2010-03-21, bottle, 7-4-7-4-14=36
Cloudy orange-amber color; small creamy head. Delicate aroma, cream and mango, light cookies. The toffee flavor, dry, is a bit too breadish; accurate bitterness level for this kind of beer, with oily resins, sharp. Long final, with hop juice and no sugar. Pleasant.
2009-10-18, draught at Ginger Man, NYC, 7-4-7-3-14=35
Copper color. Nice toffee aroma, lightly cheesy, very light resins. Dry mouthfeel, toffee and malt flavor; strong bitterness. Ordinarily good.
Cloudy orange-amber color; small creamy head. Delicate aroma, cream and mango, light cookies. The toffee flavor, dry, is a bit too breadish; accurate bitterness level for this kind of beer, with oily resins, sharp. Long final, with hop juice and no sugar. Pleasant.
2009-10-18, draught at Ginger Man, NYC, 7-4-7-3-14=35
Copper color. Nice toffee aroma, lightly cheesy, very light resins. Dry mouthfeel, toffee and malt flavor; strong bitterness. Ordinarily good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2009
at 16:07
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Nice golden coloured body with a copper glow and a very thin slightly off-white head. Aroma of fresh hops, metal, malt, caramel and a touch of nuts. Medium-bodied; Good body for the beer, some light apricot and fruit flavours and a very minimal amount of hops - not much to speak of at all. Aftertaste easily shows more malt and caramel than anything else, only faint hops on the end. Overall, not such a great IPA - a drinkable beer, but not hoppy or bitter at all. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Hi-Time Wine Cellars in Costa Mesa, California on 18-May-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 27-October-2009.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2009
at 23:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours orange copper color with off white head. Caramel malt aroma with some citrus hops. Citrus fruit rind bitterness, sweet caramel and a hint of alcohol. Medium body with average carbonation.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2009
at 17:41
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a transparent copper with a big, fluffy head. Aromas are extremely weak... a slight whiff of citrus and that’s it. Flavor is much better, but still a little on the thin side. Hops and malt both pick up steam here and drive toward a nice grapefruit bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2009
at 20:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a dark cream colored head. Light grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit flavor with malt and light darker malts backing. Some pininess comes through as well. Medium bodied. OK bitterness. Grapefruit and pine lingers with some malt and light earthiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2009
at 20:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of grapefruit and Cascade hops. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of straw and grapefruit. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2009
at 17:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Eel River. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a malty hoppy citrus aroma. Slightly sweetish malty bitter hoppy citrus flavor. Sweetish malty bitter hoppy finish with some hints of citrus.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2009
at 10:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
bottle - Pours a slightly hazy deep copper color with a thin white head. It has a mild hop aroma. The flavor is of caramel malt with strong citrus hops bitterness. The dry finishes has the expected lingering bitterness. It’s alright, but it’s nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2008
at 01:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. pale coppery/ambery colour with mediumsized fluffy off-white head. Aroma is caramel, fruity hops as well as some mild earthy notes. Flavour is quite much the same. Very pleasantly balanced IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2008
at 01:44