Smuttynose IPA

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

Bottled. Side-by-side blind tasting. Definitely a delicious IPA. Great hop profile. Grapefruit throughout. Hints of mango showing up. Perhaps some simcoe hops? Good bitterness. Clearly hop accented. Flawless and deeply pleasant.

Hazy gold, thin white head, sticky medium body, medium carbonation.

Aroma: funky simcoe hops, sweet pale malt.

Taste: sweet pale malt, lots of herbal grapefruit american hops.

Lots of aroma hops, and clearly leaning toward the bitter side. I like amarillo, but not simcoe, so i’m unsure about this one.

Thanks to RBlaszak for sending this beer as an extra. The beer pours a golden orange color with a white head. The aroma is heavy on the florally hops with some citrus mixed in. There is also a little bit of bready malt in the aroma. The flavor is heavy on the grapefruit, apricot and floral hops. There is a low to medium amount of bitterness which is complimented nicely by the malt backbone. The citrus notes are fairly juicy and make the beer very easy to drink. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. A very nice IPA.

Pours clear orange with a white creamy head. Very suttle aroma of grass and strawberries. Flavour is dry and piny with an aftertaste of grapefruit and a hint of strawberries.

Bottle, bought @ Ølbutikken, Cph.
Pours clear amber with a lovely, creamy, white head that stays for a good while. Aroma has bready malts, kinda crisp. Good piney, light grapefruity hops. Light red apple and some peach. Good lacings. Mild but quite elegant aroma. Mild, light prickly carbonation, very dry mouthfeel. Flavour has lots of pine, grassy notes. Lots of bitterness, peach, resiny, almost metallic. Very long, dry and bitter finish.

Bottle @ Henrik, Bergen. Hazy orange body, small white head. Nose is faint grassy hops. Taste is extremely bitter, grassy and slightly floral. Very dry. Did I say extremely bitter? Well I meant it! I really don’t know how this can be at 65 IBU only, I felt like I was opening a can of "BITTER" on my tongue. I guess it can only be explained in terms of malt back bone, which I find to be rather marginal. That, or I ate something incompatible before I had it (not to my knowledge). Anyway, this is way over the top for me; I’m not a real hop head, at least not in the ways of IBU, but still...this is extreme.

0.33l bottle @ Henriks, Bergen. Pours a medium bronze body with a thin to almost no-existing lacing head. Grape soda nose, fresh, yet some what anonymous nose for a IPA. Lively carbonation and a medium-body. Dry, bitter and quite hoppy finish. Really nice bottle label!

Flaske: Gulorange let diset øl med et stort flot skumhoved. Klassisk amerikansk ipa i duften. Citrus og bitterhed med en smule maltsødme. Ikke fantastisk men bare solid. God øl man godt kunne drikke et par stykker eller 8 af.