 greenhorn1 (359), Eugene, Oregon, USA
Feb 21, 2008
12 oz bottle. Pours dark orange with a small head with some lacing. Aroms is dissapointing, not much hops or malt presence. You can taste grapefruit and some floral notes. Some caramel maltiness, however, the two just are balanced correctly for an IPA. Not much for the hop finish to speak of. Overall, not a bad beer, it just is not a good representation of the style.
JCB (889), Durham, North Carolina, USA
Jul 17, 2008 Slightly underrated IPA from a slightly underrated brewery. It’s a solid West Coast IPA that has some resemblance to Acme’s offering, but with the malts clearly taking a backseat here to the rich hop palate. Mostly bitter, a bit sticky, but well balanced enough to be worth returning to.
glennmastrange (370), hobe sound, Florida, USA
Jul 3, 2008 Bottle. Moderate malt aroma of caramel, pine herbs and citrus peel for the hops, light dough for the yeast with apricot in the background. Head is small, fizzy white with no lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is murky amber tan. Flavor starts lightly sweet and acidic and finishes lightly sweet and bitter and moderately acidic. Palate is watery but sticky, medium with a soft carbonation. It finishes lightly astringent. It smells nice, like an IPA, but it’s flavors are a little out of balance.
spikester (364), Salem, Oregon, USA
Jun 21, 2008 Pours deep amber with 1" cream color head, few lacings. Aroma pine needles, resins, herbal. Taste is good amount of citrus hops with sweet rich malts. Pretty well balanced for an IPA. Some winey qualities due to 7% abv.
mcmd (36), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Jun 16, 2008 pours hazy dark orange with a reddish hue almost amber, thin head which diminishes quickly. Aroma of citrus- grapefruit, peach maybe, lemon, tea. Flavor is malt heavy with the citrus hops in their as well but subdued, reminds me of iced tea with lemon. Nothing groundbreaking, but a very nice pleasant and drinkable beer - good summertime beer.
Better than a 67 percentile - probably would do better in a pale ale category.
PWalk (332), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jun 8, 2008 I wasn’t impressed with this beer at all. Little to no hops in the aroma, flavor, etc... Actually tasted like they had flip flopped and added more malt to this one. It was smooth for sure but that was the only discernable highlight. Nothing in the finish.
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