Silver City Saint Florian India Pale Ale

Brewed by Silver City Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Bremerton, Washington USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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On tap at Elizabeth Station, pours a hazy copper orange with a small white head. Aroma of piney and floral hops, a little orange fruit, and some caramel malt. Flavour brings out dry citrusy and orangey hops, bitter floral hops, and slightly caramelized biscuity malt. The hops are fairly astringent on this one, with sufficient malt to back. Solid IPA.

Bottle, orange pour. Orange marmalade notes in aroma, light citrus notes and some pine. Medium bitterness, orange citrus. Decent

Sample from Silver City brewpub. Cloudy amber sample with thin head. Mild hoppy nose and taste...will be back for more, I hope.

Bright copper coloured body with an orange glow and a thick, two centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of bright floral and piney hops with a good malt backbone and a little apricot and peach sweetness. Medium-bodied; Nice assertive floral and perfumey hop notes in the taste with a solid malt flavour with some toffee noticeable, but more of the sugars from fruits are noticeable. Aftertaste shows a lot of piney and floral hop flavours with a hint of sweetness, but a great balance and a very nice hoppy flavour. Overall, great to try and well worth finding it if you can get it! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Seattle (Westlake), Washington on 08-February-2013 for US$4.99 sampled a few hours later in my hotel room here in Seattle.

UPDATED: JAN 4, 2013 Serving: from tap at Schultzy’s Sausage. Aroma: lightly hoppy. Appearance: average-sized, frothy, white, initial head with fully diminishing longevity and fair lacing. Clear, flat-looking, amber body. Taste: moderately bitter initial taste with moderately bitter finish and long duration. Palate: medium-bodied with watery texture and soft carbonation. Overall: Exceptional IPA. Just enough hops to get the right aroma and flavor without being overpowering and overly bitter. Look forward to drinking this again.

Bomber. Questionable freshness or this just isn’t that good. Aroma and flavor are dominated by caramel malt. Only a slight bitterness. I get a hint of some nice citrus hops but they fail to produce any meaningful flavors. Where did the hops go.

Bomber poured a hazy orange amber with a lingering ring of amber foam. Aromas of carmel, earthiness, orange zest, grapefruit and light pine. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of carmel, earthiness, orange zest, grapefruit and a hint of pine with a smooth dry bitter lingering grapefruit finish.
Earlier Rating: 4/23/2011 Total Score: 3.7
Bomber poured a clear reddish amber with a small lasting amber head. Aromas of orange, grapefruit, biscuit, light pine and light tropical fruit. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, orange, pink grapefruit and light pine with a crisp dry lngering moderatly bitter citrus finish.

Brilliant amber color with ivory head. Floral, pale malt, mild tea leaf aromas. Smooth medium body. Nice spicy, pine hoppy flavors with a solid pale malt base--good

pours a semi-clear orange-amber with a medium size off-white/yellowish head, and some lacing. smell is of citrus, floral, dry leaves, hops, and some malt. taste is creamy and a little bitter, some grapefruit, a bit nutty in the back, some hops, and sweeter than normal malts. ends smooth and a little bitter.
Earlier Rating: 1/21/2008 Total Score: 3.1
purchased at central market in poulsbo, washington. ill start with a summery: looks great, smells good, first taste fine, finishes lame. pours a clear amber-orange with a small egg-shell head, very good lacing. smell is of grapefruit hops, citrus, caramel, nuts, grass hidden in the back. taste at first is creamy then becomes thin and watery, grapefruit, roasted nuts, some citrus, strange aftertaste.

Bottle:   Amber in color, moderate white frothy head, some nice lacing.   Somewhat of a stale hoppy nose, slightly sweet citrus peel and pith.   Somewhat of a dusty citrusy start, pithy, but without a lot of bitterness.   Flavorful, but not too sharp.   Certainly a citrus based IPA.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate.   Seems a sweeter example, has some nice citrus and hop flavor but without the bitterness.   Smooth, but could stand to be a bit heavier.   Very easy drinking, and a great clean IPA that isn’t harsh or overpowering.   Certainly sweeter than most too.   Nice!


Earlier Rating: 3/23/2005 Total Score: 3
Bottle pours orange oriented golden, slightly hazy, mediocre white frothy head, lively carbonation, with spotty lacing.   Hop nose, biscuit (or pale malts), and a bit of pine sol.   Decent start, juicy on the hop front, but quickly slides into a slightly astringent/medicinal sorta hop juice.   As it warms it becomes less noticable.   Fairly average body and mouthfeel... slightly syrupy on the exit, a bit cloying.   The 6.9% is now kicking my butt.   Muttled finish... not terribly clean.   Stick with the Whoop Pass IPA.