Anchorage Galaxy White IPA

Brewed by Anchorage Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Pours a hazy straw yellow with a tall soapy white head. Funk aroma of brett, with coriander, and some citrus. Citrus flavor upfront with spice, hint of hops, and heavy funk. Very nice beer. Phenomenal lacing.

Keg @ Mikkeller Viktoriagade, during Mikkeller’s birthday celebration. Hazy amber pour with a small head. The nose is strong brett. Plenty of pillowy marshmallow, a bit of wood, mold, attic, dried lemon peel. Very welcoming on the nose. The taste is nicely fruity. Juicy citrus, plenty of orange and lemon. A bit of mild spices, pepper. Lovely brett quality. Tart yeasty funk, some bubblegum and rotting white grape. Lovely stuff. Active carbonation, smooth and easy drinking. Overall, a knockout of a beer. Great.

Bottle from Rincon De La Cerveza, Malaga. Pours cloudy straw colored with a huge frothy snow white head. Aroma is Brett, pepper, juicy fruits, just lovely. Taste is fresh, wood and white wine, very crisp and dry hops. Dry lingering fruity end.

Smell of coriander, citrus and other fruit. Pale amber colour, extreme white head. Cloudy. The first sip is like a slap in the face. Very bitter, enhanced by stingingly sharp carbon, which is extremely plentiful at that. Aroma of coriander, orange peel, hops, spices. Also spicy hot. Kind of a jack-in-the-box witbier.. or IPA. Or witbier.. Crazy stuff but crazy good, too.

Bottled:
Muddy, pale brown color. Large but weak head. Fruity aroma; pineapple, pine and lots of orange juice. Really bitter flavor of citrus, pine, resin, goose berries and nettles. A flavorful beer that might get a little bit too much in the long run.

05.05.2013, tap @ Mikkeller Bar 3 year Anniversary: Frisk lett fruktig lukt med preg av lys malt, masse humle, sitrus, gjær, sitrusskal, korn, kattepiss, høy, gras. Frisk lett syrlig smak med preg av lys malt, humle, kattepiss, sitrusskal, sitrus, høy, gjær, tre. God bitterhet som set godt, litt uttørrande munnfølelse. Veldig god.

First Alaska rate! Pours cloudy yellow with a massive light fluffy head that explodes up the glass. Aroma is big lemon peel, oak, funky brett, some light spices and hints of earthy hops. More of a farmhouse ale than an IPA on the nose. Light bodied with lots of carbonation (maybe too much?). Flavor is dusty bitter up front, followed by a bit of pine hop, and then finishes with some sweet lemon and pineapple. Sour kumquattyness. Very, very dry to the point that I need a drink of water afterward. The up front bitter is unpleasant and seems a bit off for my liking. I could definitely see this as a summer beer, and it drinks extremely light for 7.5%. But overall I am much less impressed with this than others. The appearance and huge carbonation hurt the final rating, but it seems to have hit what they were going for.

75cl bottle split wth Tomaz @ home. Batch#2, bottled April 2012. Dès ouverture, liège qui commence à pousser, impressionnant. Couleur paille/foin, léger trouble sur la fin, col épais blanc laissant qcq marques sporadiques sur le verre. Arôme offre un beau bouquet houblonné, frais alternant des notes d’agrumes. Note en rétro-nasal de poivre mais aussi de ce fruité de kumqat. Galaxy rappelle ici des notes douces de fruits de la passion avec l’ajout du mûrissage en chêne. Palais est herbacé, amertume citronnée assez léger et complété par le brett qui donne une pointe fin d’aigreur. La Chardonnay est subtile tirant sur le vin blanc. Beau mélange entre le côté vin, fruité tropical et amertume et l’épice; coriandre. Malgré le prix, une belle expérience.

This beer pours a hazy straw color with a medium thick and fluffy white head that dissipates slowly. Sheets of lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, brett and yeast. Medium body and mildly funky with flavors of earthy yeast, citrusy hops and oak. Slight malt in the background. The finish is mildly tart with a funky fruit and hops aftertaste. Enjoyable beer all around.

Caged and corked 750mL bottle pours with a pale yet bright gold body with faint haze supporting a tall densely cobwebed white head of foam. The aroma offers up lime, tangerine, grapefruit and a sour lime sort of wild yeastiness. The taste has a very effervescent quality and it is so much so it is tough to sink you teeth into the experience. I’m getting fruity and tart grapefruit notes that are sliding into lime like citrus and some citrusy tartness. Pretty nice but the huge carbonation takes detracts from the experience.