Fire Island Red Wagon IPA

Fire Island Beer Company
Brewed at Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Ocean Beach, New York USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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A - Pours a crystal clear amber color with a 1.5 finger tan head. The bubbles hold up for a descent amount of time. S - Rich crystal malt, pine, herbal hops, doughy yeast, ruby red grapefruit juice. T - Toasted biscuit, pine and herbal hops rides along the sweet malt and sticks to the teeth and gums. Some bitter lime peel, cranberries, and pecan shell comes out on the finish. The malt carries through but dries out on the finish. M - Medium to full body, medium to moderate carbonation. Slightly aggressive malt background but other than that a balanced and straight forward beer. Serving type: bottle 11-15-2011

Bottle. Pours reddish amber with a small white head and good lacing. Aroma is pine, floral notes, and caramel. Flavor is about the same, medium sweet, malty, light bitter. Medium body, a bit creamy. Meh

Effervescent orange beer with a short lived white head. Floral hop nose with something oddly vegital in the back. Highly carbonated. Caramel sweetness with some buttered toast, orange peel, and some berry. Not a big hoppy IPA.

Bottle. Pours clear dark orange and copper with a 3-finger foamy orange-tinged head. Aromas of citrus peel and seeds, orange candy, and chalk and berry. The flavor is sweet fruity malt, berry, orange, and mild grassy bitterness. Average. [1132]

Clearish red coloured body with a copper glow and a one centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pale malt, some hop pellets, a bit of alcohol and a hint of hay. Light-bodied; Sharp metallic and slightly perfumey hop notes at first with a good malt backbone, some lighter grass and hay notes and a hint of caramel and toffee at the end. Aftertaste shows some more complexity than I expected, but some decent hops and a good malt backbone - not bad at all, not sublime, but a good beer to try. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Half Time in Poughkeepsie, New York on 26-December-2012 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Washington on 29-January-2013.

I'm not a big IPA person so this wasn't the best beer for me. On tap at local pub. Somewhere between amber and gold pour with a small white head. Bitter. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

good body color, fairly mild aroma, drank from standard pint glass, good IPA ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

O'Lunney's, NYC, draught. Mild aroma. Quickly dissipating head and lacing. Copper color, uncloudy. Somewhat harsh flavor, strong finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

On draft at O’Lunney’s in NYC. A nice surprise as I had low expectations. This was a simple IPA, brewed to session.

Pours amber red with a good amount of head. Good balance and taste. Tasted at Brooklyn Waterfront Beer Festival, 6/16/2012.