Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy bronzed yellow to orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute leaving some light lacing sticking and then sliding down into the beer.
The smell had a decent arrangement of balanced citrus to piney hops intertwining with the caramel malts.
The taste came across bittersweet citrus hops with the caramel malts here and there. There’s a light sweet caramel to bitter citrus aftertaste leading to a semi-wet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation hits but isn’t overbearing. Decent harshness runs over my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA that I would have again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy golden-copper color with a large foamy orange-white head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was malty and sweet with a fruity hop note. The flavor was bitter, fruity, piney and had touches of spruce and flroall hops and a bit of bread underneath. Long pine and spruce finish. Medium body. Better than I expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle from Wegmans, Buffalo, NY. An amber pour with a tight cream head; malty aroma with some piney hops; well balanced mix of rich malts and piney hops; and a rounded finish. Perhaps more an English ESB style than an IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught at Blind Pig. Clear rich yellow with medium sized creamy off-white head, hoppy aroma, balanced and rich hoppy taste, low carbonation, long finish. Very bslsnced IPA
SHIG (13882) reviewed Ballantine XXX Ale from Ballantine Beer 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Can: Poured a clear golden with lots of gushing carbonation. Head is white. Aroma is skunky, sweet grass. Taste is sweet corn, grass, and soggy cardboard.
DSG (25977) reviewed Ballantine India Pale Ale from Ballantine Beer 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at Beer Market Jaffa. Better Beer Of The Month Club. Hazy orange with a white head. Aroma of hops, a bit stale, piney, a bit leafy and a bit citric, and some malt. Flavor has some sweetish chewy malt (not too sweet though) and nice hoppiness, a bit piney, with strong bitterness. Pretty chewy rounded mouthfeel. Could be fresher, but still a good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
It looks like it is contract brewed by Cold Springs MN. 750ml bottle.
A hazy amber colour, there’s a good 2 finger head of foam sitting atop. Pretty impressive lacing too.
Gosh, the hoppy notes I get in the smell remind me sooo much of the once proud and beautiful XXX..hop oils and uber pine nose that’s unreal.
The taste? Like a stronger version of XXX in its heyday. Wow! Hop oils that exude pine needles, or cones if you prefer. Earthy earthy malt that does not get in the way of the hoppy goodness. A bit more balanced than the old XXX but in every way, just as if not more than enjoyable as it was.
Medium body with carbonation perfecto, this is having me giggling up a storm. Old school but in this case, old school is kicking arse. My hat is off to Cold Springs BIG TIME!
I got 2 more bottles of this nectar of the gods. Not enough! --- Beer merged from original tick of Ballantine IPA on 04 Dec 2014 at 17:21 - Score: 10. Original review text: 4.9
Hop oils with the uber pine and earthy malt is just killing it for me. I had to buy this online but M.O.O.N., I could not have spent
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Quite mild ipa aroma from the tap. Look is significantly darker than the pale lager. Was expecting a strong thing but this is pretty well behaved. Certainly on the lighter side of an ipa, makes it enjoyable fer me. Stranger in taste than GF jibe fer sure. Yes, a rather leathery blunt finish, somewhat rude ipa finish but certainly not like in yer face.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
750 ml bottle poured into a tulip. Slightly hazy golden orange with two fingers of off-white head. Nice lacing. Aromas of pine, floral notes, citrus, toasty notes. Tastes of toasty and nutty notes, caramel, citrus, malty notes. Medium body with a dry finish. Pretty malty mouthfeel. Decent.