 Rastacouere (5343), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Oct 11, 2005 Beautiful lacing punctuates the glass on top of the hazy dark gold to orange hue, headed by a white foam. Ultra zesty, limey, grassy and strikingly orangey juicy and fresh, well cut hops. Developing a nice spiciness, notably peppery in mouth, it never loses focus, being in communion with its light-medium bodied knotted up by extremely engaging soft, almost cask-like carbonation. Exquisite balance, cleanliness and quaffability. Shining skills.
CaptainCougar (4663), Rockville, Maryland, USA
Nov 19, 2007 Sampled on tap at the brewpub on 9/18/07: Pours a hazy orange bronze with a nicely-lacing wispy off-white head. Aroma of big fresh grapefruity hops and lightly sweet pale malt. Body starts fairly full with some biting carbonation and a big bittering hoppy flavor toward a drier lingering bitter finish. Could use a little more sweet caramely flavor.
muzzlehatch (4424), Burlington, Vermont, USA
Jan 5, 2004 Updated: Apr 26, 2004Very dark for an IPA, I wonder if the 85 IBU from the hops helped kill the light? Spicy-sweet nose, the front is, whoa, sweet and malty, no real bitterness present; though it shows up towards the finish, on the whole this is a bit too sugary-syrupy-mapley for an IPA, methinks. Still a decent effort.7/3/6/4/13=3.3
Two months later...having a full pint was really necessary to do this justice. Great fruitiness throughout (cherries, apples, peaches) and plenty of counterbalancing citrusy hops; balance is excellent, really it only suffers in comparison with zillions of others. Very good.
MartinT (4373), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Oct 24, 2005 The Lure:
Multifarious hoppiness emulates grapefruit, pine trees and lemons. Supporting malt is perceived, but without any distinctive signature.
The Festivities:
Tiny bubbles appear within the citrusy and peppery hops. Their rising bitterness reaches chalkiness and saltiness at times, which decreases the pleasure to be had. Soft biscuity and bready malts participate, but this remains an all-hop affair.
Transcendence:
Shouting life can hurt the ears if you’re too close.
tiggmtl (4179), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jul 18, 2004 Updated: Nov 22, 2005Original Rating (6-3-7-3-12=3.1): Grapefruit hop nose. Fairly dark orange-brown with thin white head that diminishes to cover. Sweet and fruity up-front chased by fairly aggressive graperfuit hop flavour and strong bitterness. Medium bodied but low carbonation detracts from overall enjoyment. On tap at the Vermont Brewers Festival.
Rerate (8-3-7-3-15=3.6): Fresh orange-citrus-grapefruit and resiny hops in the nose with underlying bready, toasty malts apparent also. Clear golden-tan body is topped by a low but lasting white head that recedes to partial cover with some lacing. Toasty malts are well-balanced with leafy, herbal, grapefruit-citrus hop flavours and moderate finishing bitterness. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Sampled on tap at the brewpub with beerbuzzmontreal, MartinT, Rastacouere and Yowie.
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