High Water Hop Riot IPA

High Water Brewing
Brewed at Drakes Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chico, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Tap at Opening Gala SF beer week 2011. Pours a clear bright copper with a medium sticky white head. Aroma of pine, orange zest, citrus, grapefruit, some pineapple, then a light toasty honey sweet malt. Flavor is ligth malts, mostly fresh green hops, light grassy, slight tea, but mostly orange, lemon, pineapple, some mango and light pine. Mineral and good bitterness in the end- crisp and dry. Nice.

Sampled in a 22oz. Pours amber yellow. Head on it is thin but frothy. Has big hop flavor. Quality

22oz bottle from Bevmo
Appearance: Pours cloudy amber with a medium sized creamy off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Floral, caramel and pine resin
Taste: Citrus, sweet caramel and pine resin
OK, too much sweetness for me.

Bomber purchased at Best Damn Beer Shop ($5.49). Pours a cloudy golden-orange hue with two fingers of white foam with very good retention. Appears to be highly carbonated with lots of big bubbles sticking to the side of the glass. Aroma of wet and slightly sour grains, sweet citrus, flowers, and fresh-cut grass. Flavor has a strong initial citrus note (tangerine, orange, some grapefruit), tropical fruit, spicy hops, earthy herbs, and a fair amount of balancing caramel maltiness. Strongly carbonated with a lingering earthy hoppy bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel and body are both on the lighter side considering the relative strength of this beer. Pretty good IPA. (67, 699)

Tap at Taps restaurant in Petaluma. Clear light orange pour with a nice clingy white head. Awesome aroma and taste of bright citrus (oranges, nectarines) and a bit of pine in there too. Excellent IPA.

(22oz bottle) Pours a clear orange body with a small white head. Aroma of florals, orange, caramel, some pine, and oddly a glazed donut. Flavor of grass, light pine, earth, caramel, and citrus.

Draught pours clear dark yellow with a white head. Aroma of flowers and tangerine. Taste is bitter and tasty. Not overly complex but great.

Bottle courtesy of Marsiblursi shared at tasting. Pours hazy reddish golden with a creamy off-white head that slowly dissipates while clinging to the glass leaving lots of trace and lacing. Smell is sweet fresh and hoppy with caramel, oily pine, overripe mango, passion fruit, peaches, dill and freshly cut resinous wood. Taste is sweet, bitter, tiny metallic and hoppy with peaches, oily pine, pineapple, unripe mango, dark bread, dark honey, gooseberries and hints of caramel and grass. Mouthfeel is smooth, silky, oily and medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and bitter with tangerine, peaches, pine and dill.

(Bottle) Pours orange amber with a off-white head. The flavour holds woodsy and resinous hops up front with undertones of peach, grass, grapefruit and flowers. Hints of wet stone and acidic apples. Malt brings bread, light caramel and touch of honey. The flavour is light sweet, medium bitter and light acidic with notes of wood, resin, tea, grapefruit, mild tropical fruits, bread and a touch of caramel/honey. The mouthfeel is fat and roun with a light carbonation. Tea, resin, grass and grapefruit on the finsh. Medium bodied.

Bomber, GIL. Pours clear dark amber with a great beige head leaving some lacing. Aroma is malty fresh hoppy grassy sweet caramel and piny. Flavor is bitter pungent, good malty body, more fruits peaches and bitterness in the middle and towards the end. Finishes longlived bitter and fruity.

Bottled GIL Amber with a medium head. Aroma from grassy wet-hops and dill. Creamy toffee in the flavour. Peach and apricots. Dry high bitterness.