1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
12 ounce bottle in Duvel glass. Minimal aroma. Not sure what the hell is supposed to be going on here. Like drinking water from a rusty faucet. I might need a tetanus shot.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours gold into a shaker. Head quickly recedes to nothing. Cracker and malt aromas. Dry with heavy malts. Very limited hops in the finish. I like the dryness of the Gearys ales but I would not call this an IPA. Maybe a pale ale.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A clean golden pour. A pretty interesting spicy aroma that hints of apples. A very good finishing bitter but not much hops on the front. A thin and slightly watery offering. Not bad very nice bitter not alot of flavor but still a drinkable beer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Appearance: Pours a clear, orangey body with a medium-sized, foamy, white head.
Smell: Aroma smelling lightly of toffee, spice, and dried orange peel.
Taste: Toffee maltiness with a mild, restrained sweetness. A bit spice, a bit orangey. Medium hop bitterness. Floral, lightly bitter finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. A tad watery, I must say.
Drinkability: So-so, it was a bit bland.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
An orange to a copper color. The aroma is rather malty with some hints of lemons. The flavor is only slightly bitter with more malt showing up. Caramel notes and grapefruit presence. A hearty IPA dont think so, hearty har har maybe. Session drink at best.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Date: 05/24/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear gold, fine off white head, streaks of drippy lace,
Aroma: lots of fresh floral and citrus hop aroma on a mostly dry crystal malt base,
Flavor: sweet crystal malt flavor with lots of hops, bitterness builds from the middle for balance and leaves a long bitter finish,
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours a transparent golden bronze with a thin-lacing white head. Aroma of semi-dry grainy malts with a touch of grapefruity hops. Body starts thin and mostly dry with some earthy bitterness and a drier finish. Needs more sweetness and flavor hops with less bittering hops.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours a golden color with a white head. Aroma is malty, caramel, toast, and sweet fruity hops. Flavor is malty, caramel, toasty, and a bitter sweet citrus hop finish.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
My first question is why do they call this an IPA. It didn’t smell, look, taste, or feel at all like an IPA. It wasn’t bad, but hardly an IPA, and definitely not intense. It had an aroma of malts and sweet fruit, hops if present were very faint. It looks orange in the pour, with a lacy head. It leaves a nice lacing during consumption. It tastes nice an tart, rather like an US Lager. The tartness, and malt qualities peak through, the hops seemed to have missed my bottle apparantley. It was a smooth tasting beer. I gave it lower marks, because it seemed to be out of the margins of what I expect from an IPA. See Troegs Nugget Nectar.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Intense hop floral finish? Ummm... not really. Still though it was a pretty good beer. Pours a darker golden color, medium bodied and a pretty good amount of head on top. Not a ton of aroma, seemed a little more malty than hoppy in the aroma. More flavor that I anticipated though, although it doesn’t have that aggressive hop bite most IPA’s have. Definitely more subtle. Some hops do come out in the flavor with a sweet malt taste in there. Pretty good balance and smooth. Could use more hoppiness and a bitter bite to be a true IPA.
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