Four In Hand IPA

World Brews, Winery Exchange Inc.
Brewed at Genesee Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Novato, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Insert Standard IPA description HERE...Well, OK a little bit more description - Pretty average. Nothing wrong with, nothing particularly outstanding, either.

Aroma is strongly hoppy, the way a good IPA should be. It pours a clear amber with a thick, fluffy, and rather persistent ivory head. Hoppy flavor has an undertone of grapefruit, and a fair amount of bitterness. Texture has firm body and a good amount of fizz. If not an outstanding IPA, still a decent one.

12 oz bottle pours amber with a white head. Aroma of caramel malts and citrus. Taste is the malt and a nice bitterness. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

12oz bottle pours a totally clear orange with some rocky white head. Very odd aroma, cabbage, brussel sprouts, green bell pepper, dandelions. No way this can taste good. Nope... it’s gross. It tastes like skunked lager, carboard, a fake vegetal bitterness, rotting lemon meringue, fake perfume, brass monkey (malt liquor and OJ). Gross, skunky finish. WOW. Worst IPA I may have ever had.

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of malt, caramel, hops, slight citrus, and cardboard. Poured orange/amber in color with a medium-sized, creamy, tan head that greatly diminished but lasted throughout as a film on top of the beer and around the edges. Clear. Sparkling. Good lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and light to medium bitter. Tastes of hops, caramel malt, grass, slight wood, and cardboard. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Lightly sweet, medium bitter, malt, caramel, hop, grass finish is dry.

Pours copper with a thin off white head. Initially, this smells earthy, but as it warms up in the glass, some resiny elements and citrussy notes emerge. Tastes of citrus, resin, pine, earthy, some underlying bitterness, spicy on the finish. Well hopped and enjoyable.

Pours a somewhat clear amber. Grassy and vegetal aroma and some citrus. More malty and surprisingly dry finish. Does not knock my socks off but pretty drinkable. If available locally, might go for it if I’m seeking a drier, sessionable IPA.

Mild citrus aroma, which quickly fades. Pours a clear amber, with a full white head. Next to no hop presence at all, there’s a hint of malt, and a touch of spice. Very light palate, with just a touch of hop bitterness in the finish. This is drinkable, but not anything that I would expect or want in an IPA.

this beer is meaningless in the beer industry. the artwork and design is nice though, I must concede.

Bottle. Bought this without checking the print on the label. Figured it for an IPA and a local beer (in Las Vegas), but later on when I realized it was off, I checked and it was World Brews... Oh well, live and learn. Pours a hale amber with a large, pillowy, beige head. Aroma is fruity, flowery, creamy, sweet. Taste is creamy, toffee, cream candy, almost diacetyl, but not quite, slight butter and floweriness. Palate is quite smooth and soft, a bit watery, not much in the way of carbonation. Also, not an IPA this one. Or at least doesn’t feel, taste or smell like one.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is light amber. Aroma is lightly malty (caramel), lightly to moderately hoppy (apricot), with notes of metal, diacetyl, pear syrup, bile. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately bitter, unclean. Medium body, watery/syrupy texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic, metallic. A surprisingly metal-tainted beer. Tin is almost the strongest aroma in this, and the hops are clunky/stale. Very dirty and metallic aftertaste. Pretty much zero effort went into this.