Ottos Arthurs IPA

Brewed by Ottos Pub & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
State College, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

Name: Arthur’s India Pale Ale
Date: 07/24/2007
Mode: Firkin
Source: Brewpub

hazy dark gold, fine beige head, drippy lace, light caramel malt and floral hop aroma, nice sweet caramel malt flavor, light bitterness with a long bitter finish,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Cask at the brewery. Pale amber pour with a creamy white head. The nose is quite earthy and orangey with lots of soft fruity character. Bright sweet UK-ish caramel malts and a very assertive hoppy bitterness. A little bit of earthiness on the back. Decent brew if a bit lacking on the aroma hops.

UPDATED: APR 1, 2009 Cask (forced) at the brewery. Initial flavor is ashy and stale hop cones, like the hops were aged, or at least you could taste some age in the hops. Dusty, yet doughy and bready as well. Appearance is unfiltered, ruby orange and cloudy red in the body, glowing even. Chewy caramel malt flavors abound, with somewhat grassy hop flavors present. Yeast is prominent, as is the norm with Otto’s, doughy and bready throughout. Has a light bitterness for an IPA, though the bitterness is heavy for a supposed British IPA styled beer. Has some sweet apple and pear flavors, even some white grapes in there. Gravity is higher than expected, it’s a bit heavy, that’s easy to see, reminds me of their DIPA actually, with the high gravity and also the grassy hop notes. Velvety texture, high carbonation from the cask (though it’s a forced cask), with some apple and caramel flavors in the finish, and still with that ash character. The sweetness is high, as is the bitterness, but the sweetness is not like bubble-gum, but rather like apples and pears and other overripe fruit.

Had this on cask in State College. Poured hazy copper with aroma of hopcit, fruit, spice. Complex taste and finish with fruit, hopcit, slight nuts. Great style.

Tap. Pours lightly hazy amber with a medium, creamy off-white head, medium retention with excellent lacing. Aroma is cereal and biscuit malt, fruity and pine hops, and fruity esters. Flavor is moderate hops and bitterness, light malt and fruity esters with a dry finish. Medium body, warmth and carbonation.

Draft at Otto’s. Pours an amber body with a white head. Nice pine, grapefruit, floral citrus. Some sweetness but still hoppy and enjoyable.

On cask at Otto’s on our way to RBSG. Pours a gently hazed orange brown with a thin white head. Spicy citrus, light pine and toast, caramel and slight booze. Thinned out carbonation, smooth. Hoppy and earthy, probably better on draft. Long slow tangy bitterness with some grapefruit to it.

Cask. Lightly yeasty, celery, marshmallow, unrefined cocoa. No t what I’d expect from an ipa but not bad. Very smooth, with a harsh, astringent, drain cleaner finish. Tastes almost skunked. Hop definition is crap. This beer sucks.