Bear Republic Racer 5

Brewed by Bear Republic Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Healdsburg, California USA

A very solid IPA, piney and with some citrus this beer has a nice bitterness to it that i like to see in an ipa. Alot of what i find to be the signiture bear republic flavors A go to drink for me for sure.

Pours a cloud golden color with a massive pillowy white head and sticky lacing that covers the glass. Aroma is spicy, citrus hops, pine, and sweet malts. Taste is balanced in terms of bitterness, some pine, grapefruit. A pretty good IPA, but I prefer their Hop Rod.

Bottle. Poured orange in color with a tall frothy white head that leaves light lacing. Nice hoppy IPA aroma backed with caramel malts. The flavor finds citrus hops, pine with a balanced caramel malts. Medium body. (Rating from June ’07)

Tasted 4/25/08. 22oz bomber. Road soda on the way to DLD (don’t worry, I wasn’t driving). Filtered with an amber golden hue. Layer of off-white head. Good nose. Notes of honey and grassy bitter hops. On the fuller side of medium bodied with bitter astringency. Big effervescence. Good malty bready backbone. Nice hop palate. Grapefruit and piney. Touch soapy. Tasty brew!

A gift for the hopheads. Like strolling through a sprintime pine forest, or rubbing your hands in freash sap. Caramel gold pour. Lively hops at every turn. Very spicy. Muy bien.

this beer poured a golden color with a straw colored head that receded pretty quickly leaving scattered patches of thin head all around the top of the beer. WOW, this beer smells good. citrusy hops, grapefruit, lightly peppery fragrances dominate the nose. the citrusy hops EXPLODE in your mouth from jumpstreet, but leaves with just the right amount of sweetness to make you want to take another sip. this beer BEGS to be drank. fortunately, at 7% you can get a little reckless with them without paying high prices. not to mention, at under $5 a bomber, this things a steal. the mouthfeel is nice and suits this style beer and i could drink one after another until i passed out. another fine offering from bear republic, which has proven to me that they make all their beers very well.

12oz. bottle. Pours a hazy burnt gold-orange color with a medium sticky head with plenty of lace. Floral, and sweet grapefruit aroma. The flavor has a lot of grapefruit, with a sweet, honey like maltiness; finishes with a little bitterness and alcohol. the hops are in check, with no overpowering bitterness, but plenty of flavor. Full bodied, with lively carbonation, a little sticky. Nice IPA, reminds me of stone with a little bore body. The only thing I could ask for is a little more malt complexity, and less residual sugar, but for a lighter style, its very well done. Rerate: Draught at The Red. Gold with a white head. Citrus and tropical fruit aroma. Lots of citrus hop flavor and medium bitterness balanced by clean pale malt flavors. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. I’m not sure why I thought this was too sticky out of the bottle unless they are really different. Palates change, I guess, and this is a great IPA.

Bomber bottle, could not find a BB date, so, I do not know if this bottle fresh, pours a clear copper gold with a creamy white head that left some nice lacing on the glass, has a hint of amber in the brew and some floaties swimming around, poured mostly clear until I reached the bottom of the bottle, aroma of citrus, malt sweetness, not a big aroma or spectacular on the nose, initially flavor is sweet malt and some orange citrus fruit, then a kick of hops provide bitterness and a pretty dry palate at the finish, has a nice pretty full mouth feel, certainly is not thin in the mouth, this is a good IPA.