Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours jet black into a shaker. Significant brown micro head turns conglomerate as it slowly recedes. Roasted chocolate and coffee aromas. Upfront thin roasted coffee with lasting bitter chocolate finish.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Summer Ale from Ipswich Ale Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
A nice smooth, rather light ale. Had a lot of this during the summer. Definately a good beer. Still has a lot of flavour and some of the good bitter feel. Not really all that wheaty though... tastes more like a standard light ale.
CosmicCharlie (9644) reviewed Porter from Ipswich Ale Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Pours mahogany into a shaker. Mocha medium sized head has excellent retention. Roasted chocolate and espresso aromas. Upfront creamy mocha with a slightly thin espresso finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep black into a snifter. Mocha colored conglomerate head leaves spotty lacing as it recedes. Espresso and dark chocolate aromas. Fizzy, slightly sour dark chocolate. Lasting dry bitter chocolate finish.
CosmicCharlie (9644) reviewed Harvest Ale from Ipswich Ale Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours gold into a shaker. Sweet hop aromas. Silky cream caramel with a lasting bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark murky orange body with a large long lasting white head. Fruity caramel aroma with some flowery hops in the distance. Bitter start to the flavor with some sweet malt in the middle and hop dryness at the back end. Needs more texture, otherwise, not too bad.
CosmicCharlie (9644) reviewed Summer Ale from Ipswich Ale Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a light, slightly hazy gold into a shaker. Wheat and yeast aromas. White head with excellent staying power. Slightly fizzy balanced flavor upfront which quickly turns to a very long lasting bitter grapefruit finish. Would prefer fewer hops and more wheat.
CosmicCharlie (9644) reviewed Original Ale from Ipswich Ale Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep amber into a shaker. Conglomerate white head recedes to hug rim. Caramel malt and light pine hop aromas. Upfront sharp caramel with a lingering bittersweet grapefruit finish. Well balanced and nice for a malty english pale ale. This was my first micro 15 years ago..hopefully doesn’t have the same gastrointestinal tendencies..
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Endurance Glacier Gold from Ipswich Ale Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2006 bottle consumed on 6/14/06. Frothy white head, per usual from Mercury, is well-retained and laces sporadically. The bright goldenrod liquid is full of bottle conditioned bubbles. Very slight yeast sediment lies on the bottom. The nose begins with damp, grassy, almost funky hops. Very lean malt has notes of biscuits and slight breadiness, but is otherwise quite clean, minimally sweet and allows the hops room to maneuver. Very grassy, dusty but in a very large quantity, the English hops make me think EKGs, though I see it is Brewers Gold (similar) and Glacier (hybrid?). Some yeast nuttiness gets in the way and cuts all sharpness, while a fluffy, aerated graininess is not overly expressive. Tons of hop apparency, but it’s those dusty, funky, old-grassy hops that really confound the nose and do not complement the otherwise clean malt. Thankfully, the flavor is more citric and sharply grassy, with less of the damp soil and wet flowers, or what have you. The attenuation is perfect, being just sweet enough, with honey and very light drops of caramel and then quickly tapering off with bitter, crisp, leafy, green hop notes. Light lemon and orange, with a full complement of engaging, not-overdone carbonation. Dry and straw-like as Zach8270 says, leading to a very refreshing, medium to medium-light body with plenty of hop appeal. No alcohol, high in flavor with a good twang and bite on end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Pours deep amber into a shaker. Microbubble head with nice staying power. Clean malt aromas. Upfront malt, light and flat with a light, dry, tingling bitter finish. It just sort of dissapears and leaves long malty bitter finish.