3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a very clear red-golden color with a hugh, frothy, off-white head that is amazingly long lived and dense. Aroma is just overly bitter with lots of dry hopping. Chinook-like aroma really comes through in the nose first then a strong citrus and light pine presence show up later. Flavor has a strong chinook-ish hops early, mild citrus middle, mild pine middle/end. Malt provides a light backbone but does provide a mild toasted background. Finishing flavor leaves a bitter aftertaste with a pretty good tongue puckering dryness. Body is light/modest with a fair amount of carbonation that provides a good base for the slight dry feeling of this brew. Overall a very good IPA with it ranging more toward the rougher, bitter side of the IPA spectrum. Chinook-ish flavors really makes it a hard bitterness but it rounds out well with the following hop flavors. A great IPA and up there with Bell’s Two Hearted Ale albeit this one is slightly less recognized.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Amber pour with little head. Nose is dominated by sweet fruits, caramel and light floral notes. Flavor lends a solid blend of citrus, flowery notes, and moderate caramel malt flavors with some toasted and cereal malt flavors. Light to medium light body with a dry finish. Pretty good IPA.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Poured from a bottle dark amber color. Aroma of a IPA with floral and pine. Has a bitterness taste.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
CASK at Jerry’s. Hazy orange-amber with light, white head / Delicate nose of pine and dry hops / Light to medium body, a touch watery, with good balance and dry finish / Mild flavors of toast, orange, grapefruit, and pine / Pleasant and mild, probably more in the style of an English pale.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
August 2011. Almost abrasively bitter with a resinous tongue-coating afterward. Sweetness and some fruity hop flavor make for a brief flash of Hawaiian punch in the middle. Not as aromatic as I’d like, nor as drinkable. Sadly fairly typical of the American IPA trend, late ’90s edition.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
I really like this IPA. Nice pine, hops and citrous notes with an additional roasted flavor coming through in the end. Not bad at all.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
In the glass it has a dark amber color in the glass. Aroma is all IPA with floral and pine. Taste falls a little short. It starts out with some grapefruit and a mild bittrer bite. After that the taste falls off and has a weak finish.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Poured a nice clear golden amber with a off white color creamy head that diminished withing five minutes which was unfortunate but left really nice lacing. The aroma was a very citrusy grapefruit with hints of pine and maltyness. Taste was very crisp with a bold citrus grafruite flavor. Had a kind of ashy after taste on the palate but sat clean. Overall this is a fruity ipa which I do like and would recommend.
3.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
When looking for an IPA this is an average IPA and I was left looking for more bitterness and I did not have desire to want another.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Surprisingly Good! Montana, well done sir! A nice IPA........................
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Huge citrus hop aroma, firm bitterness without astringency. Sweet malt balances well. Finish is crisp and flavorful. One of my favorite IPAs.
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