Gage Roads IPA

Brewed by Gage Roads Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Perth, Australia

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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The taste make up for appearance and aroma. Light/medium bitterness that finishes crisp and clean.

330ml bottle. Hints of citrus and floral aromas. Nice balance of hops and malt. Lingering hop bitterness on the finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Clear caramel colour, minimal head. Not quite as dark as most IPAs. Sweet toffee and roasted touches to the nose. Bitter, oaky flavour followed by the tart aftertaste. Not as strong as most. Not a bad example of the style though, just slightly watered down.

Poors orange gold with little head that quickly disapears, light carbonation in the english style nice malt toffee sweatness, finishing with sone resin hop biterness. Slight toffee aroma, can not detect hops on the nose unusual for ipa. Overall a decent drink, but wish it had more head and a nice hop aroma.

Sl cloudy copper. Dead in the glass - just no life. Spearment nose and that again on the palate too. If you don’t think too hard about it, it actually drinks reasonable well. It’s better than the sum of the parts.

330mL bottle. Pours clear dark gold with a medium head that quickly disappears. Aromas of cut grass, vegetation and mulch with some malt. Medium sweetness, mild bitterness, some toast, vegetation. Light bodied, average carbonation and a short finish.

330ml bottle. Pours mid-brown, with a sizeable head, good retention and strong lacing. Smelled a bit like a cheap lager at first, and the alarm bells were ringing, but it opens up, revealing a nice hoppy nose. Lots of floral and pine notes. Strongly bitter to begin, dominated by floral hops. There is prickling carbonation on the palate, leading into a finish of pine hops and a hint of toffee malt. A nice IPA; not the most complex beer out there, but a nice one regardless.

UPDATED: SEP 1, 2010 bit of a bland ipa, nothing to get excited about. good one to start someone who doesnt drink ipa’s on before gradually moving them onto hoppier beers

UPDATED: OCT 28, 2010 From a 330ml bottle on 13/6/2010. I think this one is a little under-rated on here. While it may not be world class, it’s still an above average beer. It has a nice, distinct caramel and citrus fruit aroma. Taste wise, it’s malty and fruity, with a hint of nuts. A reasonable amount of hop action is evident in the long finish, though it’s pretty subdued for an IPA.

Clear amber with a disappearing head. Some buscuity bread, sweetness and feint hops. Is this an IPA? No. More an English style. This is the third [and last] beer from this crew. Very disappointing.