Mikkeller Stateside India Pale Ale / IPA

Outstanding IPA. Beautiful floral citrus aroma. Good strong bitterness with lively flavours of citrusy hops and perfectly balanced malt.

Good IPA. I love the bubbly copper color and foamy head. The beer has a nice lively mouthfeel. The nose is caramel and bright hops. The taste is balanced and refreshing--not too bitter or sweet.

Bottle via trade. Pours a cloudy glowing orange color with a 2 finger off white head. Nose was sweet malts, citrus and quite floral. Flavor held good balance between sweet malts and hop bitterness.

Bottle from Armanetti’s on Lincoln. Pours a very attractive reddish copper with thin sticky head. Nose is somewhat muted and floral, minimal resin or citrus, still very pleasant. On taste, initial sweetness is taken over by a crushing bitterness and very pleasant hop flavor. Sweet and fruity at first, giving way to the bready malt notes. This is a damn fine IPA.

Beer pours dark honey color with a nice off white head that mostly diminishes. Aroma is noticibaly lacking in fresh, juicy citrus hops. Aroma is hoppy with some dust in the background. This may be the effect of having to travel over the ocean, but the aroma on this is just too muted to be a top IPA. Flavor is A OK, with decent hop bitterness and just a bit of caramel malt. Pretty good, just not great, IMO.

Pours a light amber wit h a nice hoppy aroma. Very nicely balanced flavor. Lots of hops with a little malt very nice IPA

pours a clear gold with high full frothy head. sweet smooth citrus aroma. floral fragrant taste. lacks the fresh hops. lacks the bitterness. flower presence, fluffy full bodied palate. good but noticibly european, lacks the fresh bitter hoppiness.

Bottle. What a trendy little label reminds me of something gap would do with a sign. Pours an amber orange body with a thin off white head. Big earthy character with pine and tart grapefruit character. Bitter sweet good ipa.