Fire Station 5 Steam Pumper IPA

Brewed by Portland Brewing Company (Pyramid)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

Bomber. Lured in by the low price.....I guess you get what you pay for. Very week IPA. Weak sauce for a brewery to label their beer with a different name. Yeah I’m talking to you Pyramid. I feel taken advantage of.

light copper gold yellow in color, lots of lacy head - aroma of grapefruit and pine - sharp and somewhat bitter pine flavor is followed by orange and malt hints - beer seems a little thin on the palate

Have to admit I was sucked in by the packaging and price at a fred meyer store. Did not know this was brewed by pyramid or I would have steered clear. Overly malted IPA, very bready in taste. Clear orange in color. Not what an IPA should look like at all. At least the alcohol content isn’t bad at 6.5%.

Pours a deep orange-amber with a smallish head. Delicious nose of juicy mandarin drenched in caramel, with just a bit of pine. Slightly malty flavor, stale hops... nice bitter aftertaste. Flavor doesn’t do the aroma justice.

Still discovering old rating notes saved in other online formats -- this one from years ago (no idea where an when). Clean citrus and pine ipa taste - on the malty side and a little bready.

It was cheap, and I’ve been on a budget lately, so I tried it. Fairly weak all around IPA with concentration around the malt, at least that’s how it tasted. Looking this up and seeing who made it makes sense now as to why it tasted so...plain, and simple.

I’m biased because I’m not an IPA fan. But this honestly tasted like I was drinking a christmas tree.

Nice up front, but underwhelming in the finish and aftertaste. Malt side is toasty and chalky, with nips of cocoa, but it lacks depth. Hop side is decent at first (very floral and grassy), but the aromas fade fast, and the mild bitterness in the aftertaste is somewhat one-dimensional. Overall, it’s not that bad; it’s just not very exciting or multi-layered.