New Glarus Hop Hearty Ale

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Amber pour with a nice white head. Aroma of hops and alcohol. Medium body and very smooth. Flavors are dominated by hops, citrus, and light malts. Some alcohol at the finish.

Bottle from bonk0076. Pours a copper color with several fingers of foam head and nice retention. A notch of thick lacing coats the glass after each sip. The aroma is mild; a bit floral with caramel and grains. The flavors show toasted almonds, caramel, hazelnuts and some light bitter citrusy hops. This is a good beer but it’s hard to envison it as a true IPA. Perhaps some sort of English IPA but probably more like a Pale Ale.

Appearance: Pours out a brilliantly clear, orange-amber body topped off with a full inch and a half head of off-white foam with some notable staying power to it. Smell: The nose has a bright zestiness with a lightly oily, pithy lemon character. Pale malts with a note of delicately toasted grains and a plastic-wrapped cube or two of milk caramel. Taste: Pale malts with a hint of clean, fresh, washed grains and a moderate amount of sweetish caramel tones preclude the citrusy, zesty, spicy hops from the Cascade and EKG’s. Medium amount of bitterness. Appropriately dry on the back end with a light, ending malt hint and slight, lingering bitterness. Presents a good balance from beginning to end. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: I dug it! A very nice, well balanced India Pale Ale from New Glarus that presents a firm hoppiness but also a nice amount of balancing maltiness.

Poured a bright reddish-orange color with medium thick white head that lasted to mid-glass and left okay lacing. Both the nose and taste were a pleasant mix of citrus hops, grass and pine, with malty caremel undertones. Mouthfeel was tingly and slightly biting and the body of medium thickness. Though alcohol never made itself know, this rounded nicely to a long, pleasant finish.

Bottle from Cavie. Orange pour with a good little head. Lots of citrus, caramel, and hops aroma. Flavor has an unpleasant bitterness with a burned caramel taste.

Bottle courtesy of bonk0076. Clear orange copper pour. Soil hops on the nose. Sweet cream with a hint of caramel. Taste is dry hops that are ever so subtle. A nice sweet spice element sits on the taste. This is pretty good, a definite session for me.

12oz bottle. Pours a clear glowing rich caramel color with a nice fine frothy white head with very sticky lacing. Aroma is strong EKG’s and cascade, I really applaud Dan on this one, the EKG combo works fantastically, some bright honey and caramel sweetness but not overwhelming, light fruitiness and a hint of diacetyl, maybe some oats. Flavor follows exactly, the EKG’s are more present in the flavor though, the malt base is seemingly mellowed by some oats, really great balanced, the hops are featured with just enough of a rich malty base, moderate bright caramel, citrus is light, a bit of butteriness, nice touch of alcohol. Medium bodied, lighter feeling, larger spaced out carbonation, not sticky, just enough maltiness for an IPA to be super tasty and very drinkable.

Bottle thanks to brian23456 (BA)!
Copper red body with a foamy white head. Nose is somewhat relaxed with light caramel, toasted biscuit, and faint grassy hop, surprisingly almost no fruit. Green, minty flavor with light hop background and again the caramel and biscuit note. Supremely quaffable but not very enticing.