 AgentSteve (1379), SF Bay Area, California, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 20, 2007 Pours a nice copper/amber coler. Nose of sweet malts and hopsNice hop flavor with a bitter finsh that lingers, with a little sweetness to it. A nice IPA. Unfortunately for North Coast, too many other IPA’s that are better and readily available.
ucusty (1922), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 5/5 | 10/20 |
Aug 20, 2007 very sessionable beer, however its a little to watery for my tastes. Pours hazy gold with light head and lacing. hop/watery flavor finish’s bitter.
badlizard (2409), Berkeley, California, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Aug 18, 2007 350 ml bottle from Trader Joes. Hazy yellow with a creamy white head. Vaguely grapefruit and pine aroma. Citrus and pine taste with a slight bitterness and a dry finish. Not great among IPAs.
ekstedt (2457), Göteborg, Sweden
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Aug 14, 2007 Bottle bought at the Rover, Göteborg, Sweden. Clear amber with a medium off-white head. Fruity and a bit earthy maltiness, discrete floral hops. Medium bodied. Nice balance with a good bitter bite. Quite a bland IPA.
asedzie (457), San Francisco, California, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 11, 2007 Bottle. Pours light copper with medium white head. Aroma is piney, some light citrus - pineapple, orange and apricot. Flavor is a little creamy doughy maltiness, but dominated by fruity hops. Finish is pretty bitter, piney, resiny hops. I feel that this beer is underrated, I like its bitter hop bite.
Gregis (1136), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
| 2.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 3/10 | 3/5 | 7/20 |
Aug 6, 2007 I thought for sure that this would be an improvement over the ACME APA. I was wrong. It pours a clear amber-orange with a pillowy, off-white head that sticks around for a while. The aroma is of funky grapefruit and pine with a faint caramel malt backing. Normally that is a good combo for an IPA, but something just smells "off" on this one. The palate is light to medium-bodied, slick and distinctively bitter and dry. The flavor is an initial hit of semi-sweet caramel malts with citric, piny and earthy/resinous hops following. This beer is quite bitter and dry at the end. I felt that it was seriously lacking balance, and the bitterness is almost harsh and dry like the flavor of a pecan shell, accompanied by plastic and cardboard notes. This is probably my least favorite IPA to date.
SSSteve (2107), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Jul 22, 2007 orange with a large white head. peachy, caramel malt, apricot aroma. flavor is relatively similar to aroma with more grapefruit, citrus notes. i enjoyed this better than the regular pale. slightly astringent alcohol, but the hops are strong enough to act as a deterrent. nice caramel malts too.
BBB63 (4283), La Porte, Indiana, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jul 21, 2007 Bottle and served in my GI IPA tulip: A sunset hue with a huge foamy head with left excellent lace upon the glassware. The aroma has notes of husky grains, grassy and spicy hops, and a hint of faded grapefruit esters. The taste a mild blend of astringent hop bitterness and mild citric tones over a layer of biscuity malt. Pretty much a one trick pony but nothing wrong with that for this beer is a simple summer sipper.
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