Snoqualmie Falls Wildcat IPA

Brewed by Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Snoqualmie, Washington USA

Very hazy golden orangish coloured body with a dense tan head - nearly perfect for looks! Aroma of fresh piney & grapefruity hops, full of body. Medium-bodied; Super strong hoppy flavour with grapefruit and pine cones most noticeable. Aftertaste has some alcohol, sugars, but mostly hops - still very balanced by malt! Overall, a very good IPA - not amazing, but still better than most! I sampled this 65 cL bottle almost a year old, purchased from Whole Foods in Portland, Oregon on 16-December-2007.

22 oz. bottle purchased at Bottleworks in Seattle. Pour is golden with some chill haze and a bunch of carbonation bubbles swarm to the surface like a school of fish. Nice white head. Aroma of soft a sweet citrus - reminded me of a ripe orange, mixed with some biscuit malt. Taste is really nice, beginning is a nice blend of the citrus hop and malt sweetness, then midway though, some really nice resin bitterness appears and carries it through to the dry finish. The taste of this one is really nice, really well balanced.

bottle shared by boboski: pours a super carbonated clean golden orange with a very large small bubble white head. aroma of great pine hop and grapefruit peel. very citrus adn grapefruit. no malt that i scense. just got some lemon drop also. flavour is very bitter pine and grapefruit cutrus. again no malt very carbonated and very refreshing. just a slight bitter finish.

Bottle…O-Town Throwdown Part Tres... Hazy golden ale with a mid-sized, frothy, white head. Terrific retention. Malty nose with citrusy, Tomahawk hop essence. Well-balanced flavor… near perfect stability between biting hop bitterness and malty sweetness. Hearty and rich. Medium-bodied and slightly creamy with lively effervescence. Bitter, mildly astringent finish that winds up dry. A big THANKS to boboski for sharing the bottle!

A pleasantly balanced NW IPA. Gold orange color with good lacing and a lasting head. Earthy hop aroma with some grapefruit rinds too. Floral and herbal bitterness is light with a nice biscuity malt backbone. Not too bitter, not too sweet. Extremely drinkable for 6.6%.

Bottle courtesy Boboski. Pours big hazy orange with a thick off white head. Big malt and a huge hop profile that also has white grapefruit and pine in it. Very carbonated, just fills you mouth up. Actually, keeps foaming up when it should be going down. Nice dry hop aftertaste.

Pours a clear deep gold with tall bubbly tan head that just doesn’t fade away. That head was buoyed up by the carbonation and just didn’t die. The aroma is mild with hints of floral hops and mild malt sweetness. The flavor begins with hoppy bitterness from floral and spicy hops that are amped up due to the big carbonation. This beer is certainly over carbonated for the style. There is a mild note of malt sweetness that intercedes before the hop bitterness grows into the after taste.

Pours yellow-orange w/ very thick head. Bizarre CO2 ’streamers’ bubbling up from bottom of glass. Aroma is hoppy, pine...not as hoppy as I was hoping. Flavor is mostly hoppy pine... bitterness a little out of balance. Had a weird foamy mouthfeel. Did not like this at all. Overall, not a bad IPA, but a little too bitter, too much pine, and that foamy mouth thing.