Lafayette Eighty-Five

Brewed by Lafayette Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Lafayette, Indiana USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Not as hoppy as I expected. A decent IPA but a little too much on the English side for my taste.

The bartender said they didn’t know what style to call this, but putting it under IPA seems a good call. It’s a pale yellow brew with a slender white head. The aroma has some honey sweet pale malt in it, but that’s soon eclipsed by grapefruit, pine, and zest of lemon. The flavor tilts towards the hops, a light earthiness being added to the mix. The finish is a prolonged PNW bitterness. Good stuff.

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Had this offering on draft on a recent road trip to the brewery. Served in a pub pint glass. Appears a golden amber color with over a inch of head. This is the Lafayette Brewery’s flagship offering. Taste is quite citrusy with a good amount of the hop profile coming through. It’s not over the top hops, but is fairly balanced and is a very good effort. This isn’t going to be a hop-lovers dream beer, but is a very good beer and is very enjoyable. The mouthfeel is refreshing due to the juicy citrus coming through. There is very good lacing throughout the glass as I drink it. This is a good beer to have as your flagship beer and to be know by. I could easily have drank several of these with no problem. Another solid offering from a very good brewery

Draft at LBC. Heh, heh, heh! Fool your swill-drinking friends with this one! Suprisingly pale; in fact it looks just like a Budweiser. But that just makes the hops seem a little bit bigger. C&C hops are a big surprise in the nose, then in tasting. Good ol’ pine, pineapple & grapefruit, but none of the extreme flavors from an overhopped brew. Lip-puckering, but easy drinking at the same time!

nothing beats Brewpub fresh IPA. 85 had a light golden color and was quite light bodied. balance was definately toward the hops in this brew grapefruit dominated the taste and the finish was quite bitter, although the malt does make itself known as the beer warms toward the end. this was an extremely well crafted IPA. too bad this brewery is 2 and a half hours away.

I had this on tap at the brewery. The color is a medium amber. The smell is almost solely of hops. The taste is a very full hop taste. The grapefruit and floral hops are wonderful. Not much malt noticeable, but this is my kind of beer.

At Indiana BG Fest: Light Golden hue with some head and lacing. Big hoppy piney nose with hints of grapefruit, apple, grass, barnyard, and butter. Fully bitter taste throughout, very little sweetness to be found. Dry finish. Thin-bodied, watery and lively mouthfeel, metallic feel. Hop heads may like this, but IMO this brew is not balanced enough to enjoy more than half a pint.

The weak nose does a good job of hiding the massive hops in this. Reportedly the bar's bestseller, this is very bitter, but nothing else. Clear -- see through -- yellow with microbubbles. Some butter flavors. Interesting, but there needs to be something else at work. Very long finish and quite enjoyable.

I have a hard time staying away from this stuff. 85 is a real hop-soup. It’s not balanced real well, though. The mouth feel is too light and there is not a lot of malt balance. I’m no commercial brewer, but it appears that it is not florally hopped at the end like you would expect, but rather hopped at the beginning to add bitterness rather than aroma. Now, as to why I can’t stay away from it...it’s really extremely bitter, but in a good way. Nice and refreshing with a kick to it.