Laurelwood Hop Monkey IPA

Brewed by Laurelwood Public House & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Date: September 22, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear dark gold, wispy off white head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet crystal malt aroma, light citrus hops
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, nice balancing citrus hops, long lasting bitterness
Overall: sweet liquid hops
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

(22oz bottle) Pours a hazy orange body with a tall dense rocky root beer float-like off-white head. Aroma of florals, caramel, biscuit, and orange. Flavor of orange, caramel, apricot, and bread with a moderately bitter finish. Nice balance of hops and malt.

Bomber from Bottle Trek. Pours orange gold with a decent white head and fine bubbles. Lots of floral hop aroma. Medium body with nice carbonation. Flavor is a light caramel backbone overtopped by lots of floral, and I think citrus, hop. Enough hop to create a mild burning sensation. Really hoppy finish. Just excellent.

UPDATED: APR 29, 2009 Fresh bottle.
Appearance: Hazed burnt peach.
Nose: First whiff is cream and butter, some buttered orange and lactic, moldy melon, moderately spicy/spritzy/zesty but overall an unremarkable nose for an IPA.
Body: Medium to full frothiness. Holds up well throughout the drink and across the palate.
Flavor: Mild overall, notes of creamed oranges, dried apricots, dried pears, very mellow and mild, unnecessarily understated. Medium bitterness, dirty and minerally finish. Unremarkable overall.

2010-06-26. Crisp golden yellow, with a nice off-white head and lace. 3+ Hoppy grapefruit and lemon citrus in the aroma. 7+ Flavour has a good amount of bitterness, grapefruit seeds, but not astringent, touches of lemon, pale mat. 7+ Average palate is just a hair light, but almost seems to suit it somehow. On Tap at Laurelwood NW Public House, Portland.

Got this dance that’s more than real
Drink [Hop] Monkey - here’s how you feel
Put your left leg down - your right leg up
Tilt your head back - let’s finish the cup

Tap@Brewpub. Fruity, floral and perfume aroma. Light amber colour, beige head, good lace. Light sweet, bitter, malty, grassy, herbal. Flavourful, very well balanced.

Aroma is of caramel, toast, earth, and floral hops. Pours a copper color with a nice creamy head. Caramel and toast. Very earthy with a floral lingerining finish. Somewhat resiny. Very earthy ipa.

22. Pours a hazy bronzed medium amber with a dense and sudsy off-white head that sticks around a bit, leaving a fair sheet of lacing down the sides of the glass. Doesn’t smell like much, especially for a beer with "Hop" as the first word in its name and "citrusy hop aroma" in its marketing badge. There’s some orange and lemon there, but they’re quite subdued. Or the beer might be ridiculously cold, maybe. Creamy medium body with lively carb. Toast, caramel, biscuit, and orange on the mid palate, with some pine resin rounding out the finish. Very approachable and a satisfying drinker; with big hop aromatics it would really start landing some body blows.

[2973-20100626] Tap. Citrus hops aroma. Clear, medium orange body with a medium-lasting foamy off-white head and some lacing. Bitter orange juice flavour has lemon pip notes. Medium body. Not as hoppy as anticipated.
Overheard: "I think you’re broken."
(@ Laurelwood NW Public House, Portland, OR)

Bottle:   Vibrant amber, light carbonation, large frothy white head, a few spots of lacing.   Sweet malty nose, mildly hoppy, faint honey.   Similar on the tongue, yet softer.   Comes across as more of an American Pale without being overly hoppy, with a sweeter malt base.   Clean, slight earthiness or soil.   Very pleasant.   Minor citrus zest on the backside.   Smooth, a little bubbley.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate.   Lingering earthen malts, pale citrus zest, and musty hay.   Not have bad, but seems more like ¾ IPA.