Ninkasi Total Domination IPA

Brewed by Ninkasi Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Eugene, Oregon USA

22oz from Bottleworks. Very nice pour, balanced looking if that makes sense, with a modest head, lively carbonation, and a deep amber color - it all screams just what I want during the dank months. And speaking of dank, there’s an especially resinous quality here, deeper than pine and getting perilously close to weed. I think it works quite well, though if I were to lodge a complaint I’d like perhaps another floral note or two. But this is deliciously bitter stuff, refreshing as hell and complex despite its drinkability.

A good all-around IPA, and possibly the best pairing I could possibly imagine with pizza. Faint notes in the aroma reminded me of red sauce and pepperoni. Most of the smell, though, is powerful citrus hops, with only a light backing of light, sweet malts. It poured a light honey-amber with a good thick head, and had a very smooth mouthfeel, and while the flavor was intriguing (powerful citrus hops abound), it was overwhelmed by a resiny quality that really started to become annoying by the end of the glass - the kind that sticks at the back of your throat.

Dark burnt orange coloured ale, slightly hazy. With a pure white head. Strong piney hop aromas, good malts in the back. A very "soft" IPA strong semi-sweet malts then a rolling piney hop bitterness..just flows. Good on the palte, "soft" and just rolls around the tongue. Good IPA.

Thanks to the wife! Clean and hoppy taste. Strong citrus. Very nice. First Ninkasi and well worth the wait.

Thanks to Mike for this one. Light amber body. Aroma has strong hops, honey, and lemon. Flavor has a strong dry bitter, and honey. Body is light but not watery.

22 oz bottle. Hazy brown orange with a frothy white head. Nose is orange, dough, pith and malt. Crisp with a nice carb bite. Taste is lemon, orange and then grapefruit and some soap. A little caramel, a little dry. Good one.

bottle, tangerine orange color topped by a slight soapy looking head, nose is grapefruit and cinammon rolls, flavors of bread, citrus fruits and peppery, dry bitter finish

5-24-08 bottle shared by Humulone_Red - thanks!
Semi thick yellow orange with no head in my pour. Smell is soapy hops with a touch of some floral notes in there. The base is mostly soap seemingly as the flavor and mouthfeel remind me of just that. Overall, drinkable but not boldly hopped or balanced.