Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Light peach and gold color with a nice head. Aroma is a natural refreshing peach smell. Taste was not as fruity but the peach did come trough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
From old tasting notes. Amber red color. Thick creamy beige head. Sweet raspberry malt aroma. Zesty fruity malt flavor. Pronounced bitter hop finish is somewhat medicinal.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bomber, shared with the wife on 16th July 2014 while on holiday in California. Poured into Corsendonk badged stemmed tulips it had a hazy peachy look, the off-white head soon left even though carbonation bubble trails could be seen through the cloudy body. Apricots with the peach aromas and taste, sweet and fizzy. As a one off I enjoyed it, as did the wife: would I buy another, sorry guys at the brewery, No.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
I used to drink a lot of this beer back in the mid 90’s when Spanish Peaks was it’s own company. 12 oz brown bottle. Poured a dark amber with a large foamy white head that faded quickly. Aroma of artificial peaches and crap lager underneath. Flavor was artificial peach and vanilla with a sour mash basic lagerish flavor undeneath. Got significantly worse as it warmed. Medium length finish. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Hazy medium orange body with a tall, sticky, off-white head. Fruity caramel aroma. Good aroma, but not the hoppy one i was expecting from an IPA. The flavor is balanced between the sweet malts and the light hop bitterness. Decent flavor, but again it follows the aroma and isn’t very IPA-like.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle pours hazy dark orange with a thin white head. Aroma is grainy, wheat, crackers. Flavor is watery, thin wheat, some thin peach notes. Eh.....
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pour is a cloudy amber with a large white head. Aroma is a pleasent hop and not much else. Flavor is way more malty with an ever so slight hop but finishes with a wierd sourness. This was more of an English style IPA but I’m thinking the brewer was not going for that. Kinda like someone’s first attempt at homebrewing an IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Pour is a hazy amber with a large white head. Aroma is just a sticky sweetness. No detectable peach. Flavor is peach at first then comes more sweetness. Not real good but these wheat beers with some artificail fruit flavor rarely are. It was cheap.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Total Wine-McLean, 1/31/13
Aroma: The nose is heavy malty, with lots of caramel, pale malts, and some grapefruit hops
Appearance: It pours a reddish-orange color with a lasting beige head and some medium lace
Flavor: This one has a medium-plus sweet flavor, heavy caramel, and a light-medium hop bitterness
Palate: The body is medium, it is kind of sticky, has an average carbonation, and a mid-dry finish
Overall Impression: For me, this was not a particularly good example of an IPA. The hops are a bit lacking here and the sweet caramel malts are a little too present. It isn't terrible as a beer, but as an IPA, it misses the mark.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bomber from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours darkish hazy orange amber with a creamy beige head. Aroma is light pitted fruit with roasty malt. Med body. Flavor is light pitted fruit, roasty malt, and something floral/herbal. It’s dryer than not, quite hoppy, and decently bitter - but not a NW type.