Big Time Perspective IPA

Brewed by Big Time Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Cask at the brewpub, 6% ABV, 8-4-8-5-17=42
Hazy golden color, with typical cask head, frothy, very persistent. The aroma is less powerful but more delicate than in the draught one, with nice fruitiness, yellow stone fruits. The mouthfeel is greatly improved, being smooth, and allowing the toffee flavor and malt to shine completely; the hopping is strong and delicate at the same time, perfectly complementing the malts. Balanced final.
Lovely.

Draught at the brewpub, 6% ABV, 8-4-7-5-16=40
Cloudy golden to light amber color; creamy head. Lovely aroma of fruity hops, citrusy. The body is lean, it has a very good toffee flavor, the hopping is perfect, powerful but not oppressive, with plenty of hop resins and bitter orange character.
Fresh and excellent.

Dry hopped version. Tap at Brouwer’s Hopfest ’06.

This dry-hopped version, brewed just for the occasion, was the standout of my second evening at hopfest. It pours a hazy hamber with a white head and a powerful herbal dry-hopped aroma, mint and bit of flowers. The flavor melds a lovely herbal hoppiness with hints or orange and lemon, some caramel in the malt. The beer is lightly sweet but not sticky and always easy-drinking while bringing forward a big hop goodness. This is a huge winner.

on tap at pub. great summer ipa, big but lighter colored, crisp citrus hope aroma and flavor with just enough caramel to balance. a little cloudy w/ brief head. puckers you up well but not mercilessly.

On tap at Brouwer’s for Hopfest, pours a golden copper with a small white head. Aroma of citrus hops, piney hops and resin. Flavour of citrus hops, pine, pot, dry zesty fruits and orange peel. Dry, lightly bitter and fruity. Great.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a cloudy yellow with a small white head. A interesting nose of floral and funky hop notes- very much like a skunky bag of marijuana. Light bitter flavor, herbal and fruity. Very nice.

Tap at Brouwer’s. Clear orange with a big, foamy white head. Left sheets of lacing as I drank. Aroma hoppy, citrusy, and floral, not unlike orange blossom. Has a a little bit of toasty, caramelly malt, but leans more towards the hop bitterness and aromatics and is only sweet enough to balance the hop character. More of the floral and orange notes make themselves known as you drink it. There’s a touch of herbal hempiness, but the orange blossom character is much more prominant. Has a nice, bitter, citrus rind finish. A standout Northwest IPA.

Cloudy gold amber,creamy lasting white head.Citrus hop nose.Softly carbonated citrus hop profile, good malt backbone. Huge lasting bitter finish

Draught @ Brouwer’s Café:   Dirty amber, thick and heavy, moderate white head, foamy, spotty lacing.   Raw musty hop nose.   Very slight pine.   On the tongue it really comes across as a really musty funky dank IPA.   This must be what its like to wring the juice straight from the hop.   This is like uncut cocaine.  This seems to be as true as true gets.   Simple, hoppy, and what it means to be an IPA.   Full bodied hop juice.   I think of all the beers that call themselves an IPA and how this one would crush them.   Could be a little bit more refined, but when you get punched in the face does it matter what happens afterwards?

From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 13/10/2007 Fruity hop aroma. Golden coloured slightly hazy in appearance fruity and very hoppy. Creamy on the palate with a crisp and bitter finish.

Cask @ Big Time. Cloudy sandy blonde colour with a thin head. Syrupy, slightly herbal hop character. Abundant dry hops in the cask win the aroma a nice score. Spicy, very herbal hop character. Some malt stickiness but only a little bit of pale malt character. Clean, light IPA. Really thick sheet of lacing down the glass, too.