Bastone Royal IPA

Brewed by Bastone
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Royal Oak, Michigan USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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This draft brew from the brewery poured a small sized head of foamy white colored bubbles that was mostly diminishing and left behind a transparent uncarbonated orange brown colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was hoppy. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a hoppy aftertaste. The flavor contained notes of medium strength hops. An OK brew just nothing special.

Draught at the brewpub. Pours a cloudy dark amber with a spare diminishing white head. Aroma is hoppy and fruity with some sweet malt. Flavour starts subtle with light citrus hops and sweet malt but has a long bitter finish. Medium bodied. A pretty good IPA.

Draught at the brewpub, Michigan Trip ’06. Belgian Pale listed on the menu, but IPA on the chalkboard - this was definitely the IPA. Dark orange, very small white head. Lots of amber malt in aroma and slight hops. Taste makes up for the mild aroma - a great mix of malt and sharp grapefruit hops. Good solid body to this IPA. A great IPA and the first of many I would try on this trip!

Draught sampler at the brewpub. Reddish-amber. Sweet malt and orangey hops in the aroma. Flavour has good maltiness to start, slowly building to a tasty citric hop finish. A really solid IPA that gets better with every sip.

UPDATED: JUL 26, 2006 Draught. At the brewpub with blankboy, GregClow, jerc and tupalev. Hazy deep amber with a small white head. Aroma of light sweet malt, quite sugary (and dusty) to my nose, with mild floral hops. The bitterness is revealed in the taste - dry bitter hops - just enough malt character to balance it. Nondescript body, bitter lightly astringent mouthfeel with a medium-long finish - a session IPA and pretty tasty considering the aroma wasn’t all that promising - the finish really is interesting and this is a beer you need to let unfold, there’s a decent complexity in that finish.

Waiter seemed to think this was the same as the Belgian Pale but that does not match the IPA listed on the board or the flavour of the beer - this was definitely and IPA. Dark amber body with a small beige head. Moderate resin and hops in the aroma. Very pleasant citrus up front, moderate hoppy bitterness and resin, more than expected from the aroma.

On-tap at the brewpub. Edgy bitterness and high malt, like a double IPA. Cloudy orange and lots of lace. Breathing in the C-hop grapefruit aroma, citrus flavour-check.

Tap. Copper colored with an off white head. Aromas of citrus and slight caramel notes. Flavors of malt, hops and Slight citrusy notes evident. Medium bodied with strong Centennial hop presence.

On tap at the Bastone Brew Pub. Poured a medium to deeper and lightly hazy orange color with a small sized off wihte head. Aromas of citrus (oranges and grapefruits), and light caramel. Tastes of orange peel, grapefruit, and light caramel. Medium bitter with light lacing left on the glass.