Cottrell Mystic Bridge IPA

Brewed by Cottrell Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Pawcatuck, Connecticut USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Copper coloured body with an amber glow and a thin off-white head. Aroma of light grapefruit and piney hops, a good malt balance, a touch of sweetness and a very mild nuttiness. Medium-bodied; Nice fresh hop flavour that shows some perfume, some flowers and more grapefruit than anything else. Aftertaste shows a good balance of hops and malt with a nice finish - nothing bitter, but a good hop showing. Overall, a nice and easily drinkable IPA while still showing some good hop notes and a pleasant balance. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 30-July-2011 for US$2.25 sampled in a hotel room in Syracuse, New York on 11-August-2011.

Pours mid amber with notes of light pine and spice. Mouthfel is medium bodied with large hints of sweet grain from the malt and a light background of the spice and hop notes. A medium finish.

Draught. Pours like a typical IPA, slightly hazy golden with a moderate white head. Aroma is earthy hops, with some pine/resin character. Flavor is fairly sweet malt, with some caramel and peach, with quite bitter hops. Not a lot of specific hop flavor besides the bittering. Sort of an odd IPA, but not bad.

Aroma is mildly nutty malts, an undercurrent of hops and a hint of a DIPA-like syrup note. The flavor is a slightly muddled mix of sweetish malts and hops. Decent but the flavor needed to stand out more.

Pours a three-finger light cream head that fades slowly to a thin layer leaving some lace. Hazy amber color. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Nose is grapefruit hops and flavor is grapefruit hops, hints of caramel and a lingering bitter finish. $2.09 for a 12oz bottle from Julio’s Liquors Westborough, Ma.

Bottle - average size thick head, hazy dark orange color, nice big hop aroma and flavor with a good malt backbone

well integrated throughout, amber color, malty and herbal front to back. nicely balanced and not overbearing.

Pours a little cloudy with a small head. Fair lacing. Aroma is of floral hops with a little malt. Taste is crisp but nothing really stands out.

Draft. Cloudy amber color. Very shady looking, but taste is quite smooth, fruity and hoppy. Not a bad beer, but not and ipa imo

Bottle. Unlcear amber with medium off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel and fruit. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, meidum sweet, little toffee and medium bitter.

Trade by Beerbill, thanks. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and rather hoppy - fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 271211