Maine's Best IPA
Gritty McDuff's in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.33
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Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Maine's Best IPA from Gritty McDuff's 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at GBBF 2007. A dark amber beer with a thin dark beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, hops, and elder flowers. The flavor is very sweet and malty, combined with notes of caramel, hops, grass, and grapefruit, leading to a dry bitter finish.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Maine's Best IPA from Gritty McDuff's 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(Cask at GBBF, London, 9 Aug 2007) Dark copper colour with brief head. Fruity nose with notes of dark fruit, hints of grapefruit and pine needles, malty foundation. Fruity, malty taste with dark and/or dried fruit, oranges, grapefruit, pine needles and a malty, slightly nutty background. Sweetish, solid mouthfeel. Complex but with great balance. Nice beer.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Maine's Best IPA from Gritty McDuff's 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Gravity @ GBBF 2012, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.Clear medium to dark amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, grass. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, caramelized caramel, orange sweet hops, alcohol notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120809] 6-3-7-3-14 Gravity @ GBBF 2007, London.Clear medium amber color with a small, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, orange, citrus, caramel. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [AUG 2007] 7-3-6-3-13
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Maine's Best IPA from Gritty McDuff's 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask@GBBF2007. Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is hoppy, fruity and slightly wooden. Flavour is the same, but a lot of grassyness has come along. Really dry palate.
Beertalk (16424) reviewed Maine's Best IPA from Gritty McDuff's 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask-GBBF. Copper with a small, but lasting off-white head. Malty and toffee aroma with a hint of grass. Malty flavour with a bitter and obvious American hop flavour.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Maine's Best IPA from Gritty McDuff's 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask gravity at GBBF 2007. Amber colour with thin beige head. Nice hoppy aroma. Decent IPA, good grapefruit on finish. Toffee. Nice enough without being outstanding.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Maine's Best IPA from Gritty McDuff's 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draught pint at the brewery on 4/14/06 with SuIIy
A smattering of ivory colored bubbles sit precariously atop a deep bronze-mahogany body, with light golden tints, and a touch of chill haze. Large bubbles stick to the sides of the glass.
The aroms smells of earthy British brown malts, juicy, green hops and fruity yeast esters. Cherries, apples, lemons all mix with the hops to provide a rather lively mix in the nose, however weakened it might be by the high amount of water present in Gritty’s beers. Some toasty caramel-like malts and definite British crystal dryness give it a hard edge, as some buttercream and light acid notes mix unceremoniously on the finish. Juicy, minimally bitter hops fight with crusty, earthy, toasty brown malts to produce a fairly true highly-hopped British bitter-pale ale sort of thing.
The flavor shows plenty of yeasty, mineral-like notes, with tanginess from the hops without much bitterness. Some green, juicy flavors as well, from the hops, complement the pale malt sugars, light caramel touches and hints of buttercream on the end. Though it has a crystal malt flavor (woody, papery, simple sugariness) the texture is not overly hard. Fair amount of wateriness, but I found no flaws. Little bit of funk, even, from Fuggles or Norther Brewer hops? Carbonation is low, alcohol not apparent.