4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: AUG 6, 2004 My parents brought this back from Texas. This is a fantastic IPA. From the red gold colour to the floral grapefruit nose I had high expectations before I even took a sip and this delivered. At first the taste was citrus with a nice dry bite on the finish. Some pine added to the complexity as it warmed, with a nice malt backbone throughout.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Hand pumped cask conditioned barrel at the Gingerman in Austin, TX. Beautiful orange amber cascade settled to a hazy light copper under a creamy off-white head. Thick curtains of lacing. Aroma of pine and grapefruit. Citrusy flavor with milk chocolate and lightly toasted malt. Velvetty rich texture and a smooth, mildly bitter finish. My first hand pumped cask conditioned IPA and hopfully not my last. A very pleasant surprise in the heart of Texas.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Thanks go to bu11zeye for this Texas beauty. Poured a clear effevescent amber with a fizzy white head. Really fruity aroma with big notes of tangerine and perhaps a bit of grapefruit... really, really tangeriney. Flavor is refreshingly dry and bitter with notes of bitter grapefruit, a bit of that tangerine, and perhaps some pine, with just a shade of dry toffee in the finish. An easy drinking IPA that doesn’t try to overwhelm you but offers nice floral and fruity hop flavor and a refreshing bitterness that acts as a beautiful session companion. Nicely done.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
12oz bottle, lots of large, suspended yeast on the bottom. Pours buttery gold with a smallish, pervasive head. Aroma is very fragrant, lots of sweet floral notes, maybe a touch of pine. The flavor starts with a nice maltiness, followed by an initintially intense, but short lived bitterness and floral and piney flavors. The finish is resiny and there is a lingering bitterness. Good stuff, thanks Tim!
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
A very nicely balanced IPA, a nice malty start but plenty of tasty hops in the finish- not too harsh like some IPAs. An excellent session beer- wish we could get it in GA.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: OCT 24, 2005 I was surprised by this one. Expected something close to a pale ale... nope. Pours a murky floaties-rich orange with no head, but bubbling carbonation evident. Bottle of questionable age though - I’m pretty sure it’s been on the shelf a number of months. Nice grapefruity hop aroma. Taste is a pleasant bitter orange hop, with a bit of malt - nearly hints of a light barleywine. Mouthfeel has a slight thickness to it. I like it, and would love to get my hands on a fresh bottle. A worthy Texas beer. Can’t wait to drink it again.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: MAY 29, 2006 Poured a rust-tan colour, very nice foam head, nice lacing as well.. Great Aroma, very good taste, smooth and tasty.. A truly wonderful beer again from Saint Arnold’
Rerate..On CASK!..great smell..lots of foam!...amazing taste, to good to describe..goood! scores mixed.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
A good solid "old world’ IPA. There’s plenty of carbonation in this one which will give you a good amount of head. There is plenty of of citrus nots as well as malty and of course hops. The head was in between sticky and clean somewhere. The only thing I didn’t like was the aftertaste had somewhat of a burnt flavor. Otherwise, this is a solid IPA that I could drink a lot of if I lived in the area that I purchased it.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 oz bottle from Ben. Golden color pour, big white head that leaves nice lacing. Nice balanced aroma of hops and malt. Flavor is mildly bitter hops with some citrus notes. Smooth finish, very easy drinking beer.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
i rarely buy bottles but thats because i hit up the houston gingerman for their cask of this. enough said, an amazing beer
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