Hales Mongoose IPA

Brewed by Hales Ales
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

From a six pack of 12 oz bottles that cost $7.29 at Market of Choice in Ashland, CA it poured a nice honey orange with a vigorous and long lasting head and left excellent lacing. Nose of citrus hops and was very good on the palate with a rich mouthfeel. Flavor of pine and grapefruit. Finish is nicely dry and bitter. A very good IPA.

Nice ripe citrus hops and aroma. Downside is that bitterness lingers. A very good IPA

bomber. pretty boring slightly below average IPA. It was on the cheap at Freddies....once again, you get what you pay for.

Bottle. Flat tasting India Pale Ale. Hoppiness finally comes thru at the end. Not a very exciting beer.

Bottle shared with JJ. Medium hazy orange with a massive bubbly light orange head. Aroma is quite phenolic, lots of plastic unfortunately, with a little underlying sweetness. Big plastic flavor too, underlying sweet caramel malt, bitter finish. Too much carbo. This did not come together well for me.

On draft. A cloudt orange lightly hopeed for the pnw ipas. Sweet with a crisp flavor. Drinkable.

Pours a cloudy copper with a smallish head. Grassy hops and mild caramel malts on the nose. The flavor is a bit strange -- there’s the tingling on the back of your tongue that normally tells you this is a bitter brew, but the flavor is most certainly heavier on the malts. It’s almost as if someone made an "alpha acid caramel," and used it to brew this beer. Hop flavor starts to show toward the finish, and the aftertaste is almost all hops -- but the progression is interesting, if not a bit weird. Sharply bitter aftertaste, and a good body. Good one from the local guys.

Seriously underrated. Moderately hoppy IPA. Clean, crisp, relatively straight forward taste. Nothing stands out, but nothing to complain about. Seems like it’s not bitter enough for some, but I find it to be a reasonable IPA. Actually a pretty good beer for a 6.2 ABV brew.

Bottle from Brennans. Pours a cloudy orangey brown with nice lacing. Small bubbles under the surface. Aroma is floral, citrus fruit and some pine. Taste is sweet fruit, some bitter citrus fruit, some woodiness. Slightly sour flavor. Somewhat sticky. Finishes almost non-existent. Starts solidly, shame that it fades away.