Craftsman IPA

Brewed by Craftsman Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Pasadena, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

Draft at Lucky Baldwins. A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, flowers, and grass. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of grass as well as citrusy notes of lime, leading to a very bitter and dry finish.

From tap at Lucky Baldwin, Pasadena. Pours clear and golden orange with a lacing white head. Camomille like hops aroma. Flavour is dry and hoppy with a distinct fruity hops presence. Ends dry and bitter, yet with a lasting fruity aroma hops note.

Sampled draught at Lucky Baldwin, Pasadena.
Hazy deep golden. Grapefruity hop aroma. The deeply aromatic hops really dominate this beer, but there is sufficient malt to balance it. The mouthfeel is soft, and the finish has lingering orangey hop bitternes. Well made typical US west Coast IPA.

Date: 12/04/2005
Mode: Draft
Source: Lucky Baldwins, Pasadina

slightly hazy yellow, big white head, light sweet malt aroma, good floral hop flavor on a dry malt base, long low bitter finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Draught @ Lucky Baldwins, Pasadena. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Hoppy malty aroma with some hints of citrus. Sweet malty hoppy and bitter flavor with hints of grapefruit. Long bitter hoppy finish with pine needles in the aftertaste.

On tap at Lucky Baldwin’s: Pours a clear golden bronze with a frothy and well-lacing white head. Has a clean, green piney, but mild aroma with some dry, grainy caramel maltiness. Body starts fairly full and malty, but not too sweet, turning more dry and bitter toward the lightly sticky, bittersweet finish. A nice, very drinkable and well-balanced IPA.

On tap at Stone’s World Bistro early 01/08. Pours clear gold with lasting thin head of white foam and sheet lacing. The aroma is sweet sugary malts and floral to spice hoppiness. Taste begins with both sweet malts and floral to pine hops. The hop bitterness grows as the taste moves forward really showing a combination of bittering notes like floral, spice and pine hops as well as some grapefruit hops near the finish.

Tap @ Lucky Baldwins, Pasadena, CA Aromatic hops in the aroma to the grassy side. Cloudy green golden, big foamy head. Yeasty flavor. Grassy and plenty citric hops. Mellow mouthfeel. Bitter aftertaste. Nice.