Meantime India Pale Ale

Pours a hazy copper with a white soapy head that dissolves into a real thin layer of foam. From the start it’s easy to tell how this beer doesn’t subscribe to the American hopping philosophy. The aroma is a bit floral and ever so slightly perfumy. A bit of pepper and ginger as well, and a sugar coated bread note. Super well rounded taste starts with a earthy sweetness with some toasted sweet bread, white chocolate and toffee and a gentle spicy and floral hop flavor. Finishes with a bittersweet earthy hop flavor, a bit of Christmas spice, and the floral qualities seem a little toasted. Very silky texture with a fairly weighty mouthfeel, low carbonation. I gotta say, the reviews made me sceptical of this beer, but I loved it. I shouldn’t be surprised at that, considering how much I love Twisted Thistle and it’s non-Pacific Northwest tendancies, but I’m still surprised. An excellent beer with a hell of a lot of flavor to offer.

750ml. thanks jim, and tony! cloudy copper color with lots of fluffy light tan head stacking tall on top. sweeter grainy aroma with grass hop and pine coming through the most. a fuller and maltier IPA than most. hops are certainly a bid part of the flavor but not the main attraction as in many specimen. this a pleasant and well balanced english IPA that is probably not what hop heads would be after. however those who appreciate balance and tradition would love it.

I can’t tell you how disappointing this was....maybe I believed the advertising but I was extremely disappointed! Pours a cloudy orange with little to no head, it tastes ok but not as good as you’d expect. The words that popped into my mind were...raw and unaccomplished, more like an average homebrew than a commercial beer. It is citrusy and hoppy but it just doesn’t tie together well.

Bottle shared with Zinister. Pours a sharp cheddar orange with a nice, off-white head. Aroma is straw and grapefruit. Flavor is stale flower with blunt hops. Watery mouthfeel. Blech; proof that a corked bottle doesn’t mean what’s inside is worth a darn. Oh well. K-State beat the hell outta t.u. that day, so it wasn’t a total loss.

Flowery & grapefruity. Good and hoppy but I don’t dig the sediment or yeast flavor.

Bottle. Murky light orange body with a ¼ inch dense head. Nose-clean, unsticky hops, mild dry fruits. Taste-medium bitter, soapy, over toasted malts, low to medium alcohol on the back end, biting CO2 on the back end, unsweet grapefruit, pear, light wood and tannins, low key sweetness, hop bitterness is just right. What can I say? It’s an English IPA. Everything is good and solid, just muted and low key. I imagine that this is what the original IPA’s tasted like. Not mind blowing but nice enough. Soapy, greasy mouthfeel.

Cloudy orange-amber color with a medium off-white head. Aroma has a grassy-citrus-apple mix to it. Flavor is dominated by grassy, earthy, citrusy hops with some subtle grainy malt. Nice and drinkable, but the hops just aren’t assertive enough. Still nice to try a more "traditional" IPA from the UK.

Bottle I picked up at BevMo. Nice rich orange color with HUGE head...nice lacing as well. Solid hops and floral notes with grassy aromas as well. Body is lighter than I would have thought.Good IPA from other side of the pond.