Gage Roads Sleeping Giant India Pale Ale

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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(bottle) Poured a light tan with creamy head. Up front sweet toffee and dark fruit flavours. A good whack of bitterness, but this is no mouth puckerer. I love IPAs and this is a good one, but after being force-fed a Corona beforehand this was like an assault on my tastebuds. At 5.4% you have to watch this drinks on this one too.

330ml bottle. I was a bit disillusioned with Gage Roads recent offerings but this one hits the mark. Deep copper brown colour with a beige foam cap. Aroma is packed full of bready malty hops,along with caramel and toffee.Strong flavour that sits well in the mouth. Good finish and well balanced .

Bottle 330ml. Nice and malty. Aromas of caramel, butter, and honey. Taste is sweet, with light bitterness, and good length. Palate is velvety, and medium bodied. Amber, with a thin head.

Coppery brown colour with a red tinge. Thin creamy head that dissipates rather quickly. Toffee / caramel on the nose, quite pleasant. Nice, tart bitterness to the taste and an oaky after taste. Quite nice.

330ml bottle. Pours a clear, darkish amber, with a medium off-white head, which lasts very well, leaving good lacing. It presents an alluring aroma of slightly oily pine hops, with a mild herbal undertone, supported by a touch of hazelnut. Abundant spicy grapefruit hops start it off, moving into a full-bodied nutty malt middle and a tangy herbal hop finish. A satisfying and generously-hopped IPA, and I must admit a pleasant surprise from the pet "craft" brewer of one of Australia’s largest supermarket chains.

Hint of coffee in taste and aroma. First taste gives impression of thick IPA but it is actually quite light. Did seem a bit fizzy but did retain a good head. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle- Pours a dark copper color with a good sized head that fades to some nice lacing. Aroma of citrus and grain with a bit of spice in the background. Taste of grapefruit, grain and some fruit with just a bit of malt sweetness. Mild bitterness and a clean finish. Medium body, crisp and refreshing with a decent balance. Quite drinkable, hoped it would be a bit more robust. Nice offering for the style.

Bottle - Dark amber with beige head. Medium carbonation and body. Caramel malts. Quite fruity. Good dose of hops. Dry bitter finish.

(bottle) Clear copper colour with some head. Aroma is pleasant dominated by hops giving a floral, grassy, slightly metallic notes. Medium body with good carbonation. Flavour starts with sweet rich malt and develops some hoppy complex fruit and spice flavours leading to some nice bitterness in in the finish. Overall a very pleasant, but restrained IPA, with hops flavour, but moderate bitterness on a malty base.

nice. aromas of caramel, toffee. pours nice dark amber, with hard, rocky head, quickly disappearing to completely without head. very smooth and hardly carbonated at all. maybe a little thin. nice.