LaConner India Pale Ale

Dark yellow hop dominated American style IPA. Lovely grape aroma.

Draught, at the brewpub

Golden-amber colour. Grapefruity aroma with notes of caramel and wood. Low carbonation is a bit strange, but it adds to the resiny quality of the hops. Sweet malts walking somewhere in between fresh bread and caramel balance things off. Dry, citric and a bit piney in the finish, with a syrupy sweetness. The carbonation buggers up the mouthfeel though.

Date: 07/06/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

opaque orange, big off white head, chunks of whole hops floating on top, fresh hop aroma with a touch of sweetness, big bitter hop flavor, picks up some sweetness in and a malt backbone after the hops are strained out, bitter finish lasts forever, too much gimmic, the extra long dry hopping makes it too bitter
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Date: 06/07/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: aa

all dyactyl

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.9/5.0
Score: */4
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The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

Hazy dulled golden, white head with light lacing recedes to a film. Saucy butterscotch disturbs the otherwise highly floral, rather one-dimensional nose. Cheesy, floral, kinda aromatic, but most of all very very bitter palate bearing interesting woody spiciness, but ultimately lacking in malt for me to take it too seriously. Light-medium bodied, Okay carbonation cleans a bit the oily mess from the diacetyl. Certainly no challenge to their bottleworks version.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with Larry Pitonka (thanks!). Poured a mediu and lighlty hazy orange color with a small sized white head. Aroma of buttered popcorn with maybe some caramel. Tastes of lighter butter, caramel, and pine and citrus. I couldn’t get past the nasty aroma.