Michigan Brewing High Seas India Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Michigan Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Webberville, Michigan USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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This is not a standard Pale ale. Brown to amber in color, But still a GREAT beer. Good balance between the hops & tne carmel flavor malts. I will drink this again!!

Pours a light amber with a nice head and nice lacing. Nice aroma of pine, citrus, sweet malt. Nice sweet flavor balanced with a good amount of bitterness.

UPDATED: OCT 30, 2006 12 oz bottle via Malt of Earth monthly beer club shipment. Pours a semi-hazy amber with a nice dense head. Wonderful foral aroma with notes of orange, caramel, and pine. Taste starts out with some orange and caramel and ends with some resiny pine, line, graefruit. Crisp finish, Medium body. Lingering bitter aftertaste. Very nice. Reminds me of a mellower HOD Blue Dot..yummm...This is a WOLRD CLASS ipa if i have ever tasted one!

On tap at Detroit airport. Took me about 45 minutes of walking to find a local non-macro. Hazy straw orange with thick head and full lace. Nice floral grapefruity bready aroma. Very dry mild apricot with floral grapefruity assertive very dry finish. Excellent.

BOttle from the brewpub- Deep hazy orange pour topped with a finger of beige froth. Lots of belgian style lacing. Huge hops aroma matched up with very upfront breadyness and malty caramel. A "well balanced aroma" FLavours also hold their own. Very hoppy and upfront, with a great balance of sweet bready molasses. Very american in the bittering hops. Smooth and had a drinkablilty that few possess. This is an IPA. Could pass as a double. Very good example of the style due to its balance.

Bottle: Big hoppy sweet grapefruit and pine aroma. Pours a transparent brownish-red with a nice off-white head with good retention. Great lacing. Extremely quick initial citrus sweetness overtaken almost instantly by the big hoppy finish. Long hop aftertaste. Very well done.

Awseome hop aroma and flavour. A stand out in the style.

Murky dark amber color with a large, creamy off-white head. The aroma burst out with great citrus (lemons, grapefruit, orange) tones, and a bready/sweet background. The flavor was quite sweet...honey maybe...with a huge citrusy/bitter hops character. The feel was rather thick, but still crisp on the tongue...semi-dry finish. Absolutely wonderful IPA. Thanks Wohlfs!

Found this one at the Lundeen’s in Sycamore, Illinois. Cloudy, reddish-orange pour with a thick white head, dissipating to a nice lacing. Nice and piney nose, with hints of dried fruits and grapefruit peel. Very bitter, but nuanced with a nice spiceyness that is unusual in many recent hop bombs. Clean, strong finish. I recommend this beer.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with Pailhead, thanks Kevin!) Pouring this really murky and dark ruddy-amber colored beer into my pint glass, this is already shaping up to be a winner. A nose of darker fruits, brown sugar, toasty malts, mild hop aromas, and light alcohol add to my growing impatience to sip this beer, and I simply can’t wait a minute longer. Oh baby, this is tasty stuff. Wow, is this really an IPA? Malty, lightly sweet and caramely, somewhat roasty and smoky, hoppy and bitter, with modest grapefruit notes in the finish. Alcohol is fairly evident to me, and together with the sweet and flavorful maltiness and solid hops bitterness, this seems more like a strong ale than an IPA. Full bodied, and the thick, heavy, and fully coating mouthfeel fills every crevice with long-lasting flavor. The tan head pours to a good height, but fades to a ring within a few minutes. But a quick swirl easily stirs up a fresh head. For what’s supposed to be just a "standard" IPA, this is insanely good. My glass is now empty, and that makes me weep.