3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Aroma has notes of citrus, tropical fruits, flowers and caramel malt. Clear amber hue with an average sized off-white head that mostly diminished and left good lace. Flavor is lightly sweet and medium bitter. Palate is watery soft and light bodied. Overall a good IPA that was refreshing.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Cavie. Pours orange with a white head. Aroma is piney, citrus, and toffee. Taste is bitter, toffee, and pine hops.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours a clear copper with a thick head and nice lacing. Floral, citrus and pine hops balanced by just enough caramel malt sweetness. Not sure there’s a better IPA that I can just pick up a sixer of at the grocery store (and drink more than one). All around a solid IPA.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Clear orangeish color. Aroma is very hoppy. Spicy, piney and catty in nature. Taste is also very hoppy. Slightly dry and earthy. Very hoppy.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pour from a 12 oz bottle. Medium amber brew with an off white head. Aroma of pine, citrus (grapefruit) hops with a hint of earthy malt. Flavor is dominated by citrus and grapefruit tone to the hops profile, wisps of caramel malt in there as well. Hops dominate the swallow with the finish crisp, clean, and bitter. Not a hint of anything nasty and not overhopped. Palate is good but actually a bit thin and light. A fine IPA.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 oz bottle; Aroma is nice hop texture, maybe cascade, with some malt backing. Pungent slightly, astringent, and mostly pine scent on this brew. Appearance is a medium to light amber color with a full off white head that lingers for quite a while. Taste is hop forward with a slight bit of malt poking through on the backend. Palate is light to medium carbonation, medium to heavy on the tongue with a lingering aftertaste of the hop bitterness. Overall, It’s not a stellar India Pale Ale but it’s drinkable and tastes reasonably good. Cheers!
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. I think this one’s not exactly as fresh as it could be, but it’s still very enjoyable. A rather hazy brown-orange in the glass with a small off-white head and some nice lacing. Aroma brings citrusy hops, caramelly malt. Flavor is led in by caramel malt, some biscuit/bread notes, and a medium level of hop bitterness. Citrusy hops carry through into the finish. A pretty tasty IPA, really - I bet it’s really good when it’s nice and fresh.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. How have I not rated this yet? Probably Big Sky’s most widely distributed beer. Pours clear amber/garnet. medium somewhat persistent off-white head, solid lacing. Nose is quite fresh and delicate, pretty cold cream, florals, spicy gentle mandarin orange, some pine/spruce/cedar notes. Malt is very honeyed and just discernible in the background. Flavours run the the juicy and cedar-bough parts of the spectrum, soft, and nicely bitter towards the finish. A winner!
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