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Ithaca Cascazilla

Ithaca Cascazilla - India Pale Ale (IPA)

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89
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Brewed by Ithaca Beer Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

Ithaca, New York USA

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3183.54/5.03.52/5.0Autumn7%78.8Shaker, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
The name CascaZilla is a play on both the name of our local Cascadilla Gorge and the monster amounts of Cascade hops in this beer. This red ale gets its distinctive color from a healthy portion of caramel malt, which also lends some body and sweetness to the beer. The predominant flavor and aromoa of this beer, however, is brought to you by the fresh American hops. If you haven't done so yet, treat yourself to Ithaca Beer's new monstrously hoppy Red Ale.
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 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 1, 2007  
Bottle from Capone’s. Deep coppery pour with some ruby tinged edges and a 1-finger off-white head. Aroma is heavy tangerine, mango, black pepper, hops, and caramel malt. The flavor is caramel malt, hops, black pepper. Medium palate that gets a bit acidic at the finish, and seems to need some more malt. Also, I got no hint of any red aley qualities in this. Good, but with some minor recipe tweaks this could become outstanding.


 FROTHINGSLOSH (1961), GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/512/20
Jul 29, 2007  
Sampled on draft this beer poured a red-amber color with a medium sized khaki head. The aroma was grapefruit and not much else. The flavor was dry nutty malts and grapefruity hops. Very one dimensional.


 Radek Kliber (3912), Toronto (Can) Krotoszyn (Pol), Ontario, Canada
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/511/20
Jul 28, 2007  
Bottle
Appearance :Dark amber with decent tanned fairly creamy head.3+
Nose :Green hop nose with earthy sub profile
Flavour/Palate: Blend of malt and semi raw hops with hint of nutty earthiness. Average.


 frankenkitty (1900), Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/517/20
Jul 24, 2007  
Rating #1700... simply because I didn’t want to break up my latest string of vacation reviews.

A deep vermillion/amber body shows thickness without haze and is constantly effervescent under a thick, creamy and long-lasting ecru head. Lovely citrus nose is both bitter & sweet and overall fruity with a healthy dose of orange rind, pulp & fruit along with hints of lemon and tea. Grapefruit, however, is the fruit of choice in the flavor. Along with pepper & pine, this makes for a well-made IPA with bitterness that lasts well into the finish. MIldly astringent and seemingly watery as my glass goes down, but that may be simply due to the fact that my mouth is watering. This is about as intense as I want an IPA to be, one which would be considered "sessionable" by my hop-headed friends with seemingly indestructible taste-buds.

<----(P.S. I really hope that’s a stove & not a dashboard in the photo...)

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 Gr0ve (1382), Oslo, Norway
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 22, 2007  
Draught at Gingerman NYC. Very small off-white head. Nice strong hoppy aroma. Somewhat sweet nose. Citrusy. Light-bodied. Notes of caramel. Smooth texture with a nicely balanced caramel flavour and a light carbonation. Nutty. Little bitterness, and very little in the aftertaste.


 JCapriotti (1378), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Jul 11, 2007  
Hazy red body, off-white creamy thick head. Interesting aroma... fruity hops that almost have a bright, fruity brett character. Maybe it isn’t brett, but it is a fleshy, tomato-like thing that maybe I’ve noticed in a bretty beer. Fizzy body, fleshy fruit hops. Some toasty malt. It isn’t too bad, but just not in my alley. The flavor is kind of old tasting, but I’m not sure it was there to begin with. That and the fizziness makes it awkward.


 cheapdark (2011), Monacatootha, Pennsylvania, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/56/20
Jul 7, 2007  
On tap at the Fuel and Fuddle in Oakland, Pittsburgh. Pour is brown like darker iced tea or lighter root beer. Floral hop aroma. Do you know what chewing on green grapefuit peels tastes like? Well if you don’t give this stuff a try. Oppressive and overpowering in the hops category, a little too much for my girlie taste buds. IMHO most IPAs are one sided, and so is this so I guess it’s a good example of it’s style. Medium hop bitterness keeps going and going on the finish. Overall, just like many IPAs I’ve had the pleasure of tasting, rather objectionable.


 taffurs888 (121), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/511/20
Jul 1, 2007  
Great beer. Enjoyed the dry host taste till the end. Small hint of malt, but gets topped off my a great hop taste at the end.



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