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Midnight Sun Sockeye Red IPA

Midnight Sun Sockeye Red IPA - India Pale Ale (IPA)

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92
overall
Brewed by Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

Anchorage, Alaska USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
2443.61/5.03.59/5.05.7%86Shaker, Tulip
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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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 axilla (962), New Providence, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Feb 24, 2005  
Notes from fall ipa tasting. Amber colored body with huge head. Kind of a sweet lemonade aroma. Flavor is citrus, hops and nuts. Medium bodied.


 kane (111), USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Jan 13, 2005  
Big fluffy head. Dark ruby amber color. Big aroma of centenial hops. The head remains throughout. Powerful, dry taste, lingering hop aftertaste. Unique, memorable and not for the faint of heart. Big and bold like the state it is from. For $3.95 a bomber at Downtown liquors in Boston this is a great buy.


 frylock (998), Buffalo, New York, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Nov 25, 2004  
Coppery red color with a massive white head. Light caramel in the aroma, lots of hops some vegetal notes, and a little citrus. Light malty sweetness, good balance. Citrusy hops, with a light spice in the finish. Enjoyable.


 Marc (477), Yokosuka, Japan
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Nov 1, 2004  
Herbal hoppy nose wit ha little grain and dates. Beautiful deep red with a fuffy biege head that left lots of laceing. Nice soft mouthfeel brings tons of herbal hoppieness and a pleasent bitterness. Grain, brown sugar, dates, and a touch of raisons and carmel.


 DYCSoccer17 (2187), Davis, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/103/513/20
Oct 24, 2004  
Vinous, sweet, fruity aroma. Similar to a barleywine actually. Almost sugary and candylike aromas. Amber/reddish copper color with a huge frothy light tan head. A pretty beer, although it does not look like an IPA. Very bitter to start, and it stays quite bitter and extremely dry. There are nots of some roasted malts with chocolate hints in the middle. I am not a fan of beers that are this dry.


 Hopgeek (101), San Diego, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
Oct 7, 2004  
Redish amber color and makes an excessive ammount of head. Aroma is a blend of citrus fruity cascade hops and a bit of malt. Flavor is bitter but not overly complex, light grapefruit esters in the finish, fairly well balanced. Medium mouthfeel with lots of carbonation and a dry finish. Not bad, but nothing special either.


 kbjames (242), Utah, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Oct 1, 2004  
This is an ok IPA that has a really wonderful aroma to it. But i was disappointed with the attack and the linger on the beer. Didn’t taste near as nice as it smelled. I think this is overrates in my opinion. Not even close to the top shelf IPA’s.


BelgianXXX (6), grand rapids, Michigan, USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Midnight Sun Sockeye Red IPA does not count
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Sep 27, 2004  
aroma has a hoppy bite to it. has a rich-copperish, amber-red color. the flavor fits the aroma a nice hoppy bite. left my mouth feeling like i had been sucking on spruce needles. then i saw the label and my mouth started to taste kind of fishy.



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