Mikkeller Stateside India Pale Ale / IPA

Very beautiful beer. Hazy dark orange with a thick lasting white head. Aroma: Very hoppy, citrus, grape and hay. Caramel and some fruit too. Taste: Grapefruit is dominating with some caramel to balance. Very bitter and hoppy ipa, but good one if you like that.

330ml Bottle from Realale.com. Deep amber in colour with a touch of red, next to no head and moderate carbonation. Copper coloured with a slight white head. Citrus hop aroma with a touch of pine and some balancing sweetness. Flavours of sweet malts, with more big hops and a dry finish. Enjoyable.

Goldy orange pour with small white head. Aroma is lightly citric. Taste is interesting citric-sweet combo, featuring some round sweet grape, stewed peach, and light caramel and very dry and bitter grassy-grapefruit hop notes. Must be the oats rounding out the uncharacteristic body Looong drying hop finish with lemon drop dust. Probably would be more interesting when fresh.

Hazy brown-orange pour with a thin white head. Malty caramel and grain aroma with some citrus and bitter hope notes. Bitter grainy flavor with lots of caramel. Very bitter hop finish.

Orange amber pour with two finger beige head. Aroma is herbal, grassy and floral with an almost minty quality. Flavor is an excellently pronounced cocktail of hop facets. Spruce and citrus are up front while the grassy notes are a bit less noticeable. Palate is excellent for the style, finishing clean and dry. A very nice example of the style.

A nose of american hops and citrus. Taste is of spruceneedle, yeast and hops. It has a belgian character, like mikkellers simcoe, and is acidic and complex in a way. Palate is fizzy. Finish is bitter and a bit flat. I think this was a bit too old. A good brew, but simcoe is way better in every aspect.

Nice pop. Sounds promising. This has been sitting on the store shelf for 4-6 mos @ least. Hazy orange amber with a thin, still-standing off white cap. Smells a tad past prime, earthy, caramel. Still some juicy citrus, strong pine and sugary sweetness in the nose. Mouth is satisfying. Flaked oats lending to the creaminess, I’m sure. Very light & smooth, with a resiny punch. Pale malt finish with bitter citrus, and limey taste. Should have grabbed this fresh. Still not bad.

Bottle. Pours an orangish copper with a dense finger of head. Aromas are a nice mix of tropical and citrus fruit with a little bit of biscuit and caramel sweetness. The nose is just slightly better than the flavor, but still, this is a fine beer. It has a pretty substantial malt presence, which maybe lends just a bit too much sweetness, but there are still a nice buffet of hops there. Quite a bit of grapefruit and apricot or some other light sweet fruit in there as well as a bit of pine in the finish. All told, this sits nice and has a very good progression of flavors.