New Belgium Ranger IPA

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bomber from BevMo Mountain View. This is a ridiculously clear beer. Extremely clear light golden with a great lasting white head and good lacing. Very pleasant aroma of citrus, herbal, and floral hops. Somewhat light but very good. Flavor is nice and well-balanced, mostly hop-forward with citrus and floral flavors and some substantial hop bitterness on the finish. Medium-light body and lots of tongue-numbing hop oils as the IBUs assert themselves. Overall a great IPA, better than I expected from New Belgium.

Ours a clear golden amber with a small white head that leaves a good lacing. Very nice fruity aroma. Medium body, nice and hoppy, but is malty enough to balance it out. A tasty and easy to drink ipa from New Belgium.

Appearance: Served up a clear, copper-toned body with a small, thin, white head that leaves a nice coating of lace on the descent. Smell: Lightly scented pale maltiness quickly gives way to hoppy notes of oily lemon peels and grapefruit pith. Taste: The mild mannered pale malts deliver tastes of bread (sans crusts) and no more than a small amount of brief caramel sweetness. The hops are predominately citrusy with a good dose of both peel and pith, though some additional white pine is also present. Medium-plus bitterness. Not quite citric. Finishes appropriately dry and bitter. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Slight, slick oiliness to the mouthfeel. Drinkability: Well, there’s no about it, it’s an IPA. And one that’s a tad light in terms of maltiness. Perhaps... perhaps the world of beer has room enough for one more India Pale Ale.

Bottle - Pours light amber with a small, bubbly white head. The nose is nicely balanced, with fresh floral and orange rind notes and just enough malt. It’s really hoppy and fresh, but not a bomb. Taste is pretty malty, with a nice honeydew melon taste and a grassy hop finish. Smooth and nicely carbonated, this was a great starter for a long tasting session.

From tap at Bistro, Hayward. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy and nice hoppy. Mild peachy and light fruity flavoured. Mild bitterness into the finish. Nice and smooth.

Hazy bronze with a hop-pocked frothy head. Spicy, piny, piquant, Chinook imbued nose leads to a divinely bitter body that is again infused with Chinook piny spiciness and smoothed out with Cascades. Simcoe is overwhelmed by the C hops, but perhaps is responsible for the essence of fruitiness on the finish. Like taking a cool hop bath.

Bottle. A golden yellow color with a white head. A nice sweet pine aroma. A floral hoppy flavor, semi-sweet, with a fair malty base.

12oz bottle best by 09JUL10. Clear amber with a small, off white head. Woody spicy hops up front with some light citrus rind follow. There is also some caramel malt presence with leafy hops in the back end. Flavor is a little more leafy with some clean pine. Not much caramel sweetness to be noted. Dry finish with bitterness at a 4-5, a little mineral-y. Light to medium body with moderate smooth carbonation. Kinda reminds me of Torpedo, but I like this more. $7.99 a sixer is not bad at all.

Light floral aroma. Expected a more aggressive nose. Pours crystal clear, with plenty of foam. Some lace sticks to the sides of the glass. Toasted malt and spicy hops blend well together and lead to a long assertively bitter finish, which is also fairly dry. The carbonation is right, but the bitterness kind of overwhelms the palate. This beer seems all about the bitter finish and therefore comes across as kind of a one-trick pony.

UPDATED: NOV 16, 2011 copper pour with a really big sudsy head. aroma is sort of salty with that fresh hop smell back in there somewhere. flavor is citrus hop on the sweet side, malt is really subdued and pushed back. has that new belgium spiced thing going on, probably more than i’d like. pretty thin in the mouth, which i usually don’t mind but i think it hurts this one. high carbonation as well. like i said, very citrusy flavor. bitterness in the finish kind of comes out of nowhere, but it’s pretty assertive. this may not be a show stopper but it’s enough to feed my hop hunger. the light body and abv is almost kind of nice, makes it more sessionable and easy drinking while still giving you your hop fix. As it warms it seems like the spiced flavor thing kinda takes over, i’m surprised this one rates so high. definitely not bad, and it’s nice to see a macro making a decent IPA, it’s just kind of a weird one really