Rocky Mountain IPA

Brewed by Rocky Mountain Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Pour on tap at the brewery, dark orange pour with thin white head, aroma brought notes of some caramel, toffee, nice grapefruit, orange, slight sweet candied fruits led into nice pine, hints of grain and some spice as well. Taste is a mix of sweet grapefruit, orange and candied fruits with some caramel and toffee, bitter pine, grass notes complement with a hint of earth and spice, finishing fairly bitter.

Bottle 33 cl, Total Wines. Pours clear dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet malty caramel oiny citric. Flavor is malty citric piny pungent bitter caramel and fruity. Finishes malty sweet and bitter. Like the malty body with the sweetness and bitterness.

Sample at Brewery (1/12/10)-Pours a deep hazy bown with a small ring for a head. Aroma of hops. Taste of hops, citrus, malt, and gum flavor. This medium bodied brew is not bad but lacking something.

UPDATED: JUN 7, 2012 Tap @ brewery. Dark orange appearance with a white head. Herbal, organic hoppy, a touch citrusy aroma. Tangy citrusy, herbal hoppy, sweet malty flavor. Lots of garlic and onion from the hops.

Pours a cloudy bronze, a little darker than IPAs normally look. Big nose of floral piney hops and a firm sweet malt/caramel backbone. Pretty full bodied and slick. Sweet-ish malts hit up front, toffee, light nuttiness, and some pale malt give way to some grapefruity floral hops on the finish. Floral flavors rounded with light caramel/candy malts. Pretty balanced all around, average bitterness that lingered. But something just felt lacking....I dunno what. Somewhat forgettable IPA.

On tap at Pikes Peak poured a cloudy reddish amber with a lasting ivory head. Aromas of biscuit, grapefruit, orange and light earthiness. Palate was medium bodied and smoth with a dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, grapefruit, light orange and light earthiness with a smooth dry lingering citrus finish.

Draughts, Tu Tu Tango. Deep orange, clear, thin head. Aroma is all citrus and passionfruit with underlying toffee. Nice citrus pith and tropical fruit driving the palate into a satisfying bitter finish of good length.

Pours cloudy bronze. Looks like there’s sediment in it. Big aroma is both sweet and floral. Palate is full-bodied good bitterness on the back palate but sweet notes up front. Floral flavors rounded with light caramel/candy malts. Good ,balanced finish.

On tap at ACBF. Pours golden with relatively quickly dispersing foam. Hoppy, but not too hoppy or bitter, pretty average as far as IPAs go.

(on tap at Rocky Mountain Brewery). Pours a copper color. Medium white head. Moderate lacing. Strong grapefruit aroma. Strong hoppy taste. Smooth finish. Moderate carbonation.