 pjk33 (383), Sligo - Curllsville Heights, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 17, 2007
Bottle. Ok, I just received one of the coolest things ever in my ups today... I get home and there is a box from Jim Koch of the Boston Beer Company and inside it are 2 special glasses that Jim has been working on for a while. He wanted to have a specialty glass for hoppy and malty beers like his Boston Lager and, since I subscribe to the magazine All About Beer, he sends me two of these new pint glasses....free...gratis... no charge.... you get the picture. How cool is he? Anyway, I would have liked to bust the cherry of this glass with a nice Sam Adams Boston Lager (not the light... it sucks... Sorry Jim!) but I have none, so I decide to try this Rescue IPA that my brother Rick gave me. I have to tell you, I am impressed with the glass and the beer. The beer is a nice amber color and it laces nicely on this glass. The glass is sort of a pilsner and a goblet built together. Nice hoppy aroma, sort of flowery with a roasty nice malty smell. Flavor is immediate slight malt and then the tongue is hit hard by some really bitter hop bite. I like it, but my tongue continues to grow fur as the pint empties... decent mouthfeel and body and a strong heavy carbonation. I like the beer and I love the glass!
acrdz (4248), Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 27, 2008 Draft @ the brewery. golden brown color. Bad diacetyl and burnt peanut/almond in the nose. Smells like body odor as well, and some cheesy sour cream yeast. Disgusting smelling beer, what the fuck? There’s some light prickly hop bitterness on the tongue, even some fruity notes from the hops, but mostly it’s just a raunchy flavor of burnt toast and burnt nuts, more cheesy yeast (less than in the nose, thankfully), and some muddled, messy green hop notes. Medium to light body - everything that could go wrong in IPA went wrong in this one.
checkmatei1 (239), Willow Grove, USA
May 5, 2008 Bottle: This was just an ordinary IPA. Nothing special here. Smelled like hops, tasted like hops, burnt my mouth with the hops. It was overly bitter. Overall, just OK.
DandyWolfFloyd (225), Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 1, 2008 Overall this is not bad, but IPA wise this is pretty ordinary, more leaning towards boring. It’s aroma is pleasant, obvious hops. It’s appearance is clean gold, with a nice carbonation. It’s flavor is hoppy, but bordering on bitter for no reason. It’s not one I’d pound, but I will have another. It’s the redeemer of the variety pack. Their schwarzbier is about as good.
bigrond (860), factoryville, Pennsylvania, USA
Jan 28, 2008 I thought this was a real good IPA. ’Super’ hops flavor with a long dry finish. a very nice easy drinking beer.
grandet (306), Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Nov 24, 2007 5oz sample. Nice amber color with an off white head. Aromoa of hops and some sweet malt. Taste is quite piney with some citrus fravor in the background.
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