Saranac White IPA

Brewed by Matt Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Utica, New York USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle. Grapefruit hops aroma. Cloudy straw color with a large white head, nice lacing. Very grapefruity flavored with some coriander. Light body and carbonation.

Appearance of diluted honey. A bit of an off wheaty taste. Quite bitter and dry. Not in love with this one.

Pour cloudy yellow, nice lemon citrus aroma. Interesting flavors, some lemon, spice, notes of pine, and a little nuttiness. Nice medium carbonation, soft body. Interesting an drinkable. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle 12fl.oz.

Unclear matt light to medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sour malt - fruit notes, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, lemon, pine, pale wood. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, pineapple, apricot, fruity, spicy, orange - citrus peel, wheat, coriander notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120813]

Not a good IPA. Falls short across the board. A below average beer from an average brewery. Better luck next time Saranac.

Bottle. Lemon, wheat malt, and orange peel aroma. Cloudy golden yellow with small head. Sweet orange/lemon malt and bitter orange peel hops flavor. Very good beer.

THOUGHTS: Way better than the Shock Top Wheat IPA. Rather complex. A lot better than I was expecting. Maybe not as easy to drink or as tasty as Sam Adams Whitewater IPA, but much more interesting. Not all that different from a Belgo-Cali IPA, but a little more citrusy. A little like Victory Headwaters and Blue Moon mixed with some better Belgian yeast. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a muddy, dark yellow with a small, slightly off-white head that mostly diminished and left fair to good lacing. The aroma contained wheat; moderate tropical fruit, passion fruit, earthy and citrus rind hops; lighter citrus hops; and funky, earthy yeast. The initial flavor was lightly sweet, slightly acidic and slightly bitter; while the finish was lightly sweet, lightly acidic and moderate to heavily bitter with a fairly long duration. There was peach, passion fruit, tropical fruit, earthy hops, wheat, citrus, spice and lots of yeast. The medium body was a little creamy up front and then rather dry with somewhat soft yet tingly carbonation and lightly metallic finish.

Bottle - average size think head, hazy pale straw color, mild citrus hop aroma and flavor with mild corriander notes - guess its supposed to be a cross between an IPA and a Belgin wit, misses a little on both accounts

Pours hazy gold into a Sam glass. White head with good retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Lemon, yeast and wheat aromas. Crisp with stale yeast and sour lemon upfront turning to a bitter woody finish. Did not meet my aroma and appearance expectations.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a thick, white, long duration white head, with attractive lacing, over a cloudy yellow (SRM 3) body.......nose is heavy citrus, including orange and grapefruit, light malts, coriander.....taste is light malts, grapefruit, coriander, finishing with a lingering moderate bitterness.....mouth feel medium and soft, carbonation adds a tingle. This is an interesting beer, since it is a cross of the Belgian Wit and the IPA. It is relatively light, very refreshing, and comes across as a "summer ale". Unfortunately, the orange, Citra, and coriander dominate too much, so that many dimensions of aroma and flavor, which might be there, are hidden. BJCP 7/3/13/4/6