New England Sea Hag IPA

Brewed by New England Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Woodbridge, Connecticut USA

12oz can, red pull tab. Orange pour, eggshell colored creamy head. Resin and citrus hops aroma. Flavor has a sharp hop bite. Lots of citrus and resin in the flavor as well. Nice balance in flavor with a caramel, cotton candy sweetness of a malt backbone. Wow. What a fresh taste, Sticky texture, chewy. Medium bodied. Finishes with an oily bitterness and a toasted malt flavor.

Interesting can thanks to Cletus. Pours a nice pale slightly amber orange with medium white head, decent lacing. Aroma nice of citrus hops, grass, and a decent malt backbone. Flavor matches well, but has an earthy character that some IPAs do that still leaves a good flavor, but knocks it down a few notches in my book. Mouthfeel is a bit slick, medium bodied, and leaves a nice lasting bitterness.

Can thanks to Cletus. Pours with a small egg shell colored head over a hazed orange. Aroma of floral and earthy hops, honey, straw and biscuit. Taste is earthy, herbal and dry with tea notes. Light citrus, caramel and straw. Medium to high carbonation. Dry.

12 oz can shared by kiefdog. Pours trnslucent amber/ copper with an off-white head. Nose is caramel, grapefruit, and a bit of floral hops. Flavor is caramel and grapefruit with some malt and a bit of bitterness. Medium-bodied and ok overall.

12 oz can courtesy of an extra from Cletus! A Conn rate! Thanks, John! Pours a decent overall well rounded amber, a bit of glowing orange from a good hazinessm small white head that dies to a film and laces some. Aromas are a bit malty, caramel and pale malts, a touch of stink, citrusy hops and a bit of florals. The slight funk mixes with grass and citrus, interesting.. different.. likely not intentional. Initial is better, light caramel and pale malts move way to a stronger hoppiness, bitter grapefruit, florals, and a touch of astringency. Cereal on the aftertaste with light bitterness remaining on the palate.Touch stink and stale bread make their way into the body, bitterness stays trying to help it on it’s way. This beer might be a little past it’s prime, aftertaste and palate isn’t bad, certainly a more sessionable IPA. Falls short though.

Cloudy amber with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of American citrus hops, with some malt. Dry and hoppy flavour with a grainy malt character and some alcohol showing.

Can served in a stem glass. Pours hazy amber with a semi-lasting head. Smells of grass and nuts, slightly vegetal. Sweet nutty,caramel flavor backed up by some grassy hops. More of an English style IPA. Very slight amount of detectable bitterness. Mouthfeel is fuzzy and foamy. Not at all what you expect when you pick up a beer label as an IPA in the USA these days but not necessarily a bad thing. Was hoping for a bit more hop flavor though.

From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 11/10/2007 Hop aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured and hoppy with a crisp and slightly bitter finish.