Hood Canal Dabob Bay IPA

Copper colored and topped lightly with a head. Refreshing PNW hop aroma with good bitterness profile as well as some peach and citrus notes. Easy drinking and mildly citrusy IPA that has a great profile, but doesn’t smash you over the head with hops. Nice Chinook finishing hop bitterness. An enjoyable, flavorful IPA for the summer sun.

Clear copper, small white head. Little sweet pickle aroma. Distracting. Spoiled. Drainpour. Rerate.

22oz bomber courtesy of bitbucket poured into a tulip. This one pours a very hazy orange with some sediment in the bottom of the glass. An aggressive pour yields only a small bubbly head that recedes quickly and leaves almost no lacing. The aroma is really fruity for an IPA, with some citrus hops in there as well as what smells a lot like apples, which I’ve never really smelled in an IPA before. The taste doesn’t have the light fruit going on. It’s more about a big, abrasive citrus hop kick that dominates throughout and lingers through the aftertaste. Not much malt in there. The mouthfeel is sticky but still seems just a tad thin for an IPA. The carbonation is very low as well. This is an interesting IPA, but not one that I would go back to as the taste is a bit too abrasive without a lot of the complexity necessary to support that abrasiveness.

Bomber. Pours hazy orange with a lacy off-white head. Aroma for grapefruit with a bit of toffee and a skosh of butter. Medium body and moderate carbonation.The taste is a bit earthy, otherwise same as the nose. Lingering pecan pine finish. Not too bad, but probably not an IPA I’d seek out again.

Bomber poured clear orange-amber with a small head and little lacing. Nose was citrus (grapefruit and lemon) with a hint of vanilla and pecans. Taste was sweet, grapefruity with a lingering lemony bitterness. Mouthfeel was light and watery. This beer had very low carbonation.

Bottle. Amber beer with a dark cream colored head. Pine and grapefruit aroma. Pine, grapefruit and caramel flavor. Medium bodied, but tends more to the lighter/watery side. Decent bitterness. Resiny pine lingers with grapefruit.

Draught @ WABF 2008. Pours a hazy orange color with a small off-white head. Has a malty hoppy citrus aroma with some piney hints. Malty hoppy bitter flavor with hints of grapefruit and pine needles. Fruity malty hoppy bitter finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste.

On tap at Hood Canal Brewery in Kingston, WA--Poured a deep orange-amber body with a thin off-white head. Nose of gritty, piny, citric hops and caramel malts. Nice grapefruit presence. Nothing spectacular in the spine, so I assume this beer is just an off beer masked by a big hop bill. Not bad, though.