Pelican India Pelican Ale

Brewed by Pelican Pub & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Pacific City, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Poured at a good temperature with a nice sized, foamy, frothy, off-white head, with glass coating lace. Aroma is very mild, hop, malt, grapefruit. Flavor’s like nose, carbonic tang on top with bitter/sweet right behind. Body and carbonation are perfect. Finish is like flavor, fairly long, and a bit boozy. Great IPA!

Bottle. Appearance: clear golden, big frothy white head. Aroma: caramel, floral, honeysuckle, citrus, touch of pine. Taste: bitter pine throughout but not tongue scraping, maltiness comes in middle with some floral/citrusy hoppiness, finishes dry bitter with sweet malt. Mouthfeel: slick, oily with low to mid carbonation. Overall: it's pretty good, but not amazing. Pretty malt forward with bitterness. Needs a touch more floral or citrus hoppiness to balance a little better. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle in Breck with the Faj. Poured a golden orange, with a big off-white head and great lacing. Aroma is very malt forward, but has hints of floral hops, earthiness, soap, and light citrus. Taste is sweet caramel and brown sugar, with light touches of earthy hops and soapiness. Mouthfeel is medium with high carbonation. Overall, a little too malty for me, but still decent.

Great IPA here no doubt. Citrus and herbal hops explode off the nose and palate. Nice balanced malt profile provides a light sweetness that keeps it from being abrasive. Bitterness is nice and welcoming. Great stuff.

First off huge thanks to mah bro reynolds314 for bringing this back. Perfectly balanced ipa. Good malty flavor, sharp bitterness and an amazing citrus flavor and aroma. Nice!

Pours clear golden, with generous, lasting head. Caught the citrus (grapefruit) aroma as soon as I opened the bottle. Strong citrus, grapefruit & tangerine flavor. Bitter, hoppy, sour, taste & aftertaste. Hop bitterness a touch too strong.

6/29/12. 22oz bottle via Tim. Clear golden pour with a small khaki head. Light musty and caramel aroma with some cardboard. Bitter malty flavor with bits of citrus and touches of a plant aspect and floral aspects. Maybe a bit old.

UPDATED: JUL 1, 2012 22oz bottle, appears to be bottled in April of 2012 (a "4" written in sharpie on the cap). Served at around 40F.

Pours clear amber with a two finger off-white head that leaves some decent lacing behind and holds a small creamy cap.

Aroma starts with some pineapple and mango, then moves more towards floral hops and caramel malt. Good, but not great strength.

Flavor features floral and resinous hops, a bit of fruit and citrus, decent bready/caramel malt backbone. A hint of sweetness in the middle, but finishes with nice bitterness and a touch of alcohol.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied, oily, good carbonation.

The first sniff was great, but then became more subdued after that. Pretty good IPA, but not blowing me away...

In the bottle from Tacoma Boys: not familiar with this brewery and didn’t expect such a high number of reviews. Outstanding hoppy flavor and crisp aftertaste. Not dominated by a high alcohol content like so many hoppy beers. A pleasant golden IPA.

Orange light gold with thin head,some lacing pretty clear. Aroma is buiscuit/toast with some ripe fruit slight citrus floral. Taste is solid with a mild medium toast dryness body grassy hop flavor bittering. Some vanilla tones with carmel maltThere is an earthy dusty taste maybe some kind of peppery spice along with the bittering or something.Yeah ,it has a spicey like kind of bittering that is a bit different than normal.