Haandbryggeriet India Pale Ale

Brewed by Haandbryggeriet (Norway)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Drammen, Norway

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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UPDATED: MAY 20, 2011 Batch 199. Murky orange with a small tanned, creamy head. Wooden, fruity malty and hoppy aroma. Sweet, light bitter and acidic with smoke notes, Rounder and less astringent as it heats towards room temperature. Smooth. Medium to full body. Initial rating date 2010-12-16 Batch 138. Gushes in such a way that the sediments are stirred into the liquid making it murky orange. Finger thick, frothy, cappuccino colored, lasting head. No lacing. Yeasty and wooden aroma with some malty notes coming through and alcohol present. Grows in the mouth and is overwhelmingly carbonated. Alcoholic and bitter with an acidic and dry finish. Full bodied. May be off. 6-3-4-1-8 2.2

Hazy orange colour, white hfead witch very rapidly dissappeared. Good tasye of alcohol. somewhat weaker taste of hop as expected. drank at buitenlust together with benzai.

UPDATED: FEB 29, 2012 Bottle. Orange hazy colour with a beige head. Grape aroma. Spicy flavour with a lot of fruity notes. Nice IPA!

UPDATED: APR 27, 2012 Re-rate of an old rating: April 27th 2012. 50cl bottle @ Cafe Buitenlust shared with Thompson. Hazy orange color, average sized white head. Smell hops, fruits, bitter. Taste hops, bitter, slightly pine, grapefruit. Medium body, medium to high carbo.

50cl bottle, Batch 145. Thick head, dark orange body. Aroma of Citrus fruit, roasted malt, and some caramel. Very soft mouthfeel. Loads of florals and citrus on a musty toasted malt. More like an English Pale, although still wonderful. 6,4,6,3,13

Colour looked very nice and the smell was great. Couldn’t wait to taste it. Then i tasted it and.. why can’t i taste what i just smelled? A bit dissapointing. Bit watery.

Kind of an odd duck; not bad, but not great. Bottle started foaming over after opening. Poured with a huge, foamy, frothy, tan head that rapidly settles down to a light spotty cover and a little lace. Color is a cloudy, medium amber. Aroma is spicy, malt, caramel, hops, yeast, pungent. Flavor is like nose. Yeast stands out, even a tiny bit fishy. Good body and excellent carbonation. Finish is like flavor with a surprise of slight sweetness. Good burps. Reminds me of a cross between a pale ale and a farmhouse. Not a quaffer.

Getestet beim LCRBM Hopfiger Antrunk, der Aufgrund seiner Muffigkeit nicht überzeugt. Die Muffigkeit ist nicht sehr stark, stört den Hopfen aber merklich an der Ausbreitung. Im Mittelteil kommt eine malzige Note hinzu, die zusammen mit der geringen Würze irgendwie halbherzig wirkt. Langer (muffig-) hopfiger Nachgeschmack. Test vom 10.9.2007, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 13,9,9,8,12,9 - 9,40

Aroma is heavy on berries, hinting at acidity/tartness. The appearance is very dark brown and very heavily sedimented. The flavor is of complex fruit, berries again, and hops. This was a very interesting beer with a sweet/sour flavor to it, although it’d be better described as a different style because this doesn’t have the dry hop bite that the good IPAs have.

Dark orange pour without much of a head, light collar. Aroma was sweet, slightly floral, somewhat piney, bits of caramel. Flavors consisted of rich caramel malts, good bit of sweetness, light floral hops. Just about no bitterness here. Smooth mouth, light carbonation. Not too shabby, a different take on the IPA here...

Tap at Amundsen. Copper clear, thin white head with large bubbles. Smells of grapefruit and flowers. Taste of roasted malts, caramel and fruity citrus. Feel is quite normal with hints of water. Bitter finish feels a bit more like a ESB, some citrus and flowers in finish