3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Walnut colored pour with orange tints and a big frothy white head; really nice looking brew. Aroma holds grapefruit, dank earth, blood orange peel, and touches of grass- pleasant, but not particularly complex. Flavor is wholly unimpressive; light floral and grassy malt, spots of citrus, and bits of weak evergreen. Some unappealing cereal grain and fake-tasting caramel malt as well. Mouthfeel is fairly light bodied; not awful, but certainly not inspiring on any level. Mediocre IPA.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
2010 Bottle - Pours a lightly hazy copper with a large beige head...aroma is sweet, caramel malt, light piney hops, sweet fruitiness, red apple?...flavour is not as sweet as the nose suggests thankfully, the toast and fruitiness is still abundant, with a drying graininess, dry malt...lingering hop bitterness...more of a pale than an IPA...
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz. bottle. Aroma of sweet malts, light, herbal hop and notes of orange, toast and very faint pine. Attractive deep orange color with a lasting, foamy, off-white head. Flavor is quite malty for the style, sweet with plenty of caramel and an unusual tropical fruit character, combined with herbal hop flavors and mild bitterness, and finishing semi-dry with a lingering blend of toasty malts and bubblegum. Lightly oily, coating, effervescent mouthfeel, body is medium. This is kind of an odd one, but not really unpleasant. I suppose for Abita this is pretty hoppy, but not at all in relation to other American IPAs.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
It pours a bright clear amber with a frothy ivory head. Lots of lacing. Copious amounts of herbal hops in the nose with a touch of fruity malt aroma.
Bitingly bitter herbal hops. Quite snappy with a fruity malt backbone. The hops linger long on the tongue in addition to the long herbal hop aftertaste. It’s yummy.
A very nice single IPA. Good stuff. Abita is improving in my estimation.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sample. Amber with off-white head. Flavour is malt, caramel and bitter and aroma hops.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours amber/gold with off white head. Caramel and chocolate nose, very little hop presence. Caramel notes with a decent bitter and pine and early hop flavor. Odd after of sour citric stuff type thing. Just meh.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. From Red Fish also on Bourbon street in NOLA. Amber with a small white head. Fruit an grass in both aroma and taste but really quite a better pairing to the gumbo....this is a brew! Not great but good.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
(12 oz bottle). Copper-orange color with chunky of-white head. Aroma of cereal and pine. Taste is light balance of sweet and hops which linger. It is a bit thin. This is a pretty light weight IPA that doesn’t really deserve to be called an IPA. Maybe a hoppy amber? It’s not a bad beer, however, just not a good representation of the style. I could see this as a gateway beer for someone to progress to IPAs.
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