Granville Island Brockton IPA

Brewed by Granville Island (Brewery - MolsonCoors)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Kelowna, Canada

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Tap at Cactus Club, Vancouver. Deep amber beer with a thin white head. Aroma is fairly hoppy. Light grapefruit and a bit of pine character on the top. The flavour is quite crisp with a firm crackery malt character. Light orange peel, grapefruit and pine flavour with a lingering hoppy bitterness. It’s pretty nice really.

Bottle 0,33 L. Pours clear amber colour, with thin white head. Aroma is more or less hoppy. Grapefruit, orange and some pine. And a bit of caramel, too. Light sweet at the start of the sip, turns into a medium bitter in the aftertaste. Medium body with soft carbonation. Not outstanding, but nice decant IPA.

341ml bottle from the hand pick mixed 6 pack @ the LCBO. clear old gold color with natural white head. aroma is grassy-floral-herbal hops and some spicy alefruit, taste pale alefruit and nice hop bitterness and lemon zest - like a Super ESB -wonderful prickly-creamy feel and finish is nicely rounded with sweetness, drying hop and herbal-florals. Chin chin!

Single bottle purchased on 02/23/2011 in Calgary, AB. Colour: A pleasent medium orange with gold traces and medium soft velvety head. Nose: A touch fecal, but settles into yeast, lively hops, a bit of pineapple. Taste: Light-medium sweet, light sour, medium bitter. Some caramel is displayed but quickly opens to cashews, and pleasent if not slightly dull hops. Finish is quick and short for an IPA. Not the greatest Granville product i’ve tried.

341ml bottle from the hand pick mixed 6 pack @ the LCBO. clear light orange with a lasting off white. simple earthy hop profile over a solid pale malt base. quite drinkable and a pretty good take on an english IPA. under rated on this site.

Bottle from Granville taster pack. 6%. Clear dark amber pour with a weak, white head that bubbles away to a ring. Aroma is strong with hoppy overtones, toasted malt Taste is more of the same, dry hops and roast malts dominating the flavour, with a hint of sweetness. Finish is dry, but balanced and satisfying. Delicious.

341ml brown bottle. Great looking brew. Golden-orange in colour. Holds a small and creamy off white head. Lots of clingy foam on the glass that last till the end of the drink. Malty nose with some light orange citrus hops present. Flavour is citrusy, some light fruity malt in the background, grassy notes. Finishes with mild grass and grapefruit notes, a bit minerally and dry, mild bitterness. Grassy and grapefruity notes linger for a while in the aftertaste. Medium body and carbonation. I liked this, probably more that most people. I’d even go as far to say that this is sessionable, and I have no qualms about finishing the 6 pack, but can’t see myself returning to it too often as there are a few other BC IPAs available that carry a lot more character than this one, and are also in the same price point.

Cask@Granville Island Brewery Taproom, Vancouver. Bronze beer with a good head. The aroma is gently hopped, and the flavour is strongly hopped and roasted. Overall a nice strongly hopped beer.

Aroma is more grainey and fresh hay then floral, taste has surprisingly nice citrus taste and bitterness,malting comes in and out in a big way,almost more a pale ale,but as you near the finish,the bitterness just overwhelms everything,and this now becomes an official IPA. Pleasant as can be

Pours a dark yellowish/amber color with a small white head.Big aromas of roasted caramel malts with just a little citrus/hoppy notes.Flavor is mostly of the roasted caramel malts that are infused with citrus and a nice bitter ending.I think this brew is somewhat unique due to the way the malt is used.Not bad.