Grand Teton Sweetgrass APA

Brewed by Grand Teton Brewing Co.
Style: American Pale Ale
Victor, Idaho USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Draft at the brewery. Why can’t they decide if this is an IPA or an APA? Who cares! Beautiful textbook American ale visuals ... Dark orange and slightly opaque. Standing head. Big, entertaining floral aroma and favors, rich and full bodied. (#4635, 7/1/2012)

Very good, more like an IPA. Taste a lot hoppier than 60 IBU’s. Smells of grassy hops and has a nice hoppy after taste.

A finger and half of head on a hazy, dark straw colored body. The aroma is grapefruit and lemon with a milk note; interesting but good. The taste has a great balance of the malt sweet and hop bitterness. The bitterness comes through as lemon and pine. The texture is smooth and soft with moderate carbonation. Incredible. A great APA.

Very nice beer. Hoppy and and bitter, but not too bitter. Very drinkable. Quite nice and I would definitely buy again.

This is a tasty good beer. The head was incredible. Nice color. Really big on the grapefruit. Definitely matches it’s name of Sweetgrass.

Aroma is a fresh citric hop scent. Color is a bright clear gold with good carbonation and a nice but loose head. Taste is crisp, hoppy and bitter. Starting with a medium body it goes down with a crisp feel. Finish comes on with a mellow malt flavor that is chased down by a nice bitterness and light citrus hop flavor. This is a very good, mellow, well balanced IPA.

Here’s another beer these guys have tweaked, for the better. The beer is slightly darker than it used to be, pouring a nice copper/light amber. Seems like a bit more caramel malt may have been added. The hop nose is more apparent, too. The aroma is typical of an American style pale made in the pacific NW. Lots of grapefruit and citrus dominate, maybe a slight lemon zest, too. The malt provides enough backbone for the hops, without getting in their way. Fairly bitter, but not over the top like a lot of modern American IPA’s. Yep, could drink a few of these. Me likey.

Major-league citrus hop-bomb for a Pale Ale, and I see this brew was once labeled an IPA. Makes sense; Sweetgrass is an amazingly hop-centered pale ale, bitter yet full of grapefruit and quality herb, with just enough of a sweet backing to keep the bitterness in check. The malts offer a grainy, modest resistance to the IBUs, but this bottle is all about the greenage: from the Simcoe nose to the Cascade finish, Grand Teton has given us a deliciously over hopped Pale.

Golden in color with a piney.citrusy aroma and a grainy flavor .Nicely bitter throughout.

Pours copper with a nice cream colored head and respectable retention. Nice lacing to boot. Just the kind of aroma I want on a beautiful sunny day in the upper ’70’s; hoppy with a mild but present sweet malt base. Some lemon, grass, and bread. The flavor was not nearly as hop forward as the aroma suggest, which is by no means a bad thing as I really enjoyed the flavor. A nice sweet malt base to this that pairs nicely with the hops, which provide some nice tea like flavor, some pepper, and a touch of lemon. Mildly bitter with the bitterness building up in strength throughout the sip. A wonderfully crisp but creamy mouthfeel. Medium bodied. I bought this as part of a mixed sixed pack, unsure what I might think of it, and glad I took the chance. A very nice, refreshing APA. A wonderful beer for the warm sunny weather and aside from the ABV drinks like a great session ale.