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Midnight Sun Sockeye Red IPA

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92
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common

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2443.61/5.03.59/5.05.7%86Shaker, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Brewed in the bold spirit of Alaska, Sockeye Red IPA is a finely crafted Pacific Northwest-style India Pale Ale with a real bite. Ample pale two-row malt creates a fresh, firm body while specialty malts impart a spawning red hue. The predominant character of this fiesty catch comes from outlandish portions of Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe hops, giving this beer tremendous citrus and floral aroma and flavor. Determined and bitter but amazingly balanced, Sockeye Red is gnarly enough to take you hook, line and sinker. Forget about a bigger rig; grab a bigger glass.
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 jake65 (1698), Williston, North Dakota, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/514/20
Feb 17, 2007  
Bottle: Pours a transparent amber color with a large, foamy white head. Nice, thick lacing. Nose is a soft citrus with malty sweetness. Taste is dominated by citrus hops, floral tones, grassey, and sugary sweet malt. Dry, lingering finish.


 Ty5592 (1015), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Feb 11, 2007  
Bottle from puzzi. Amber color with large fizzy head. The flavor was of only bitter hops. No malt character what so ever. Slight fizzy carbonation made me feel bloated. Just too one dementional.


 JCB (1747), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/512/20
Jan 26, 2007  
22oz bottle, from my sis! Nice looking amber hue, with a modest frothy head (and a big ol’ swirl of yeast) this one looks promising. It smells fairly promising too, with a citrusy nose. But the taste is imbalanced and a bit of a mish-mash. The hop bite isn’t bad, but the particular malts used here seem not to integrate too well with the hop profile. There’s also a bready thing that gets in the way, and a slightly acidic finish. Not horrible but nothing I’d seek out again.


 OhioDad (2491), Hilliard, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jan 17, 2007  
22oz bottle from Degarth! - Thanks Joe! - Pours copper with a short offwhite head. Aromas of big northwest hops. Simcoe is most detectable in the aroma. Flavor is good citrus grapefruit and some pine upfront but it is backed up quite well by caramel malts and lots of bready notes. I found this balanced on the palate with medium body with a fairly bitter finish. A pretty nice IPA.


 NYHarvey (2154), New York, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/513/20
Jan 8, 2007  
Bomber from Liquid Solutions. The highly concentrated citrus and pine hop aroma reluctantly gives up some hints of bread and caramel. The body is a dark copper/red and holds a fluffy white head that is fairly lasting. There are numerous floating particles that may be yeast, but they look like bits of congealed fat. <P> Fore is citrus peel bitter and that bitterness is highly concentrated running well into the finish. As it warms the bitterness fades ever so slightly and some caramel accents appear, but this is almost solely a vehicle for delivering lots of hop flavor and bitterness.


 footbalm (1218), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Dec 29, 2006  
Bottle from liquidsolutions. Pours a copper-rust color with a nice layer of off-white foamy head. Nose is hoppy, no question about it. Also seems to be some grainy notes almost as if there is some rye or wheat involved here. Nice on the tongue and leaves a bit of bitterness behind.


 Dickinsonbeer (3449), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Dec 28, 2006  
KSBF 06 after party brought by Willblake. Pours a nice slightly hazy amber with a good fluffy off white head. Hoppy and citrusy with centennial and simcoe character. Grapefruit flavor, light pine somehwat smokey character to the hop flavor, decent light caramel malt backbone and leaves a nice mouthfeel and good finish. Nice IPA.


 GG (1623), NorCal, California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/512/20
Dec 18, 2006  
An average beer to say the worst, but it has room for improvement. The beer I had was a tad oxidized, but nothing extreme. Classic hoppy aroma, albeit a little on the weak side. Malty and bready on the palate, with a nice hop bite. Nothing sub-par about it and I think if it were fresh from the tap it’d rate much higher.



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