Indigo Imp Brewery
Microbrewery in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 2008
Closed in 2015
Contact
3615 Superior Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44114, United States
Description
The Indigo Imp Brewery is an independent, family-owned and operated microbrewery hand-crafting small batches of the highest quality Real Ales. All beers are produced in open fermentors. These beers are various classic styles as well as some new creations.
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Big wafing dull aroma of unsharp hops. Color is darker than a pale lager and it pours clear from the bottle since it was done gently, there is a lot of gunk on the bottom of the bottle. Big strong beldgy flavor, forget about IPA this is a belgian strong ale, wew. Seems stronger than 7% to me. Nice lacing on the side of the glass. Has a citrus note in there someplace my taste buds said. Long bitter strong ale linger, volatile alky. Unlike most any other IPA I’ve tasted, not sure if it should be listed in this style. Does not live up to the expectations I had after drinking a few of the other indigo imps.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2010
at 11:14
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Smell is a little off. Hasome gunk in the bottom that creates a swirling dizzy pour. Above average tartness for a wit. Nice white beer appearence. Taste has some funk but not as much as other indigos I’ve tasted. Does not really seem to be more than 5%, hides alky well, seems more like 4%. Citrus sizzly feel to this stuff, like a watered down lemon er sumthin. Interesting brew almost belgian in nature, but with an an eastern american twist. No real bitterness on the finsh. becomes friendly during the session. Good, but not as good as some of those other II beers.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2010
at 16:38
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark brown body with little to no head. Smoky, rotted fruit aroma. The flavor starts sweet with a sour finish. This is missing something that I find in true Flemish Sours. Tastes like an infected beer that they tried to pass off as a Sour.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2010
at 15:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Body is a slightly hazy orange and supports a fairly thin head of white bubbles and foam. Citrus and tropical fruit are present in the nose, as is an apple juice/caramel sweetness and a faint spice presence (Belgian yeast?). Flavor is very nice, but I’m not seeing much of a connection to an IPA, even a Belgian one. Lots of spices up front and then again in the finish... kind of a peppery clove presence or something like that. In the middle there is a pretty good mash-up of fruit and sugars... oranges, peaches, pears, etc. This is pretty exciting on another level as well... this is the fourth (?) Indigo Imp beer that I’ve tried and all of the previous samples left me with serious questions about whether this fledgling brewery was simply figuring out how to do QC for their bottling line or just a very bad brewery... I’m hoping that this is a sign of things to come and will go back and try some of the previous beers that were less than pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2010
at 19:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Poured brown with a red hue and minimal head. Aroma had notes of roasted malts, caramel and coffee. No signs of sour on the nose. The flavor how ever begins sour and tart with a bit of a coffee/roasted malt finish. But it was a bit thin. Different for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2010
at 12:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Limited Release Sour bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with minimal head over a deep brown body. Aroma is vinous, currants, raisins, coconut. Taste is sour, acetic, vinous, cherries and cassis. Touch of chocolate. Light bubbles. Not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2010
at 07:57
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
This beer pours black with a thin off-white head that disappears quickly. Thin rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of dark fruit and roasted malt. Medium body with flavors of tart fruit, light malt and leather. The finish is acidic fruits and malt, with a somewhat sour aftertaste. I can’t imagine this is deliberate due to open fermentation, so I have to assume this bottle has not held up. Not very good overall.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Mar 2010
at 12:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9.5
First impression of smell when I pop the lid of this 12 oz bottle is that it comes across like a funky old leather shoe. There was barely any pressure in the bottle under the lid too. No vivble CO2 in the brew when poured into the glass. Black as old shovelhead oil. Charcoal and burned wood come thru to the olfactory in the glass. Initial taste isw forwrd with sour and tart notes. Weirdly interesting, like a wreck I cannot stop sipping this stuff. Yummy and sour continues but the tartness is never over the top, just enough to peak my interest with each glug. Pleasant dark beer attributes lurk behind the scene, making it friendly and even more interesting. Easy tart fun with barely any carbonation. Really like this sour beer experience. Nice funky beer and finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2010
at 04:31
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Looks like root beer and a head like it too. Not much aroma, just clear and clean. Some things floating around even tho there is no gunk on the bottom of this 12 oz bottle. Can taste that orange in there if you are looking for it. leaves a slight weird bitter sensation on the roof of the mouth. I’m not sure if I like the attributes that the cinnamon brings to this brew. Does come across as sour at times but not quite the tartness that I have experience3d with the other imp brews. A little dissapointing for this. Goes down fairly easy but probably couldn’t session a sixer of these.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2010
at 15:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Off funny farmy sweet aroma. Looks like darker hefe, gunk on bottom of bottle, too. Flavorful sourlike taste that nearly comes across as a lambic, a mild real lambic. I don’t think this is a pale ale my friend. Quite interesting to my sour liking palate. Sour and tart yet not overpowering in either. Weird, has many of the attributes as the last indigo I had but a different style in its own way. Smooth like-able and lovely, much better than expected. If this is a pale ale, its one of the better ones I’ve tasted. Wew, yes, quite good and unexpected. Finish is difficult to find any hop bitterness which is quite fine by me. 2 good indigos in a row, looking forward to more of this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2010
at 14:49