Tampa Bay Old Elephant Foot IPA

Brewed by Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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16oz can thanks to Ed. Pours a hazy golden brown. Great hop balance that lasts from beginning to end without too much bitter intensity. Enjoyable IPA.

Draft at Tampa Bay Brewing Company. Snifter. Nice dark golden-amber with a medium white head. Heavy citrus (lemon and grapefruit) and pine aromas. Taste is thick pine resin with citrus, malts, and a nice floral aftertaste. Alcohol is well masked. Finishes bitter with a slight sweet.

16oz can thanks to Tricyclist. Pours a hazy deep copper color with a small white head. Aroma of strong syrupy caramel malt, citrus, and some pine. Taste is grapefruit, lemon, orange, caramel, resin, and pine.

This one poured a light orange color with an off white head. Aroma was grassy and stale hops and caramel malt. Flavor was similar, old disappointing ipa

dark ipa big fruit punch and hop. tangy and chalky at the finish balance with a little syrup in the body.

Can from the brewery. Pours out an attractive, well carbonated orangey clear color with a small whitehead. Aroma is of grassy hops, light citrus, lots of cracker/bready grains, light sweetness. Taste is better than the aroma, sweet bready cracker malts, citrus hops, light grass, some mild resin and a moderate lingering bitterness.

had on draft at Tampa Bay and a small sample at the grand tasting for rbwg .. . deep gold amber .. great foam, lacing was ample, like regina’s tits .. . sap and tree innards .. . simple mouth feel .. . quite nice, i’d pickup this up in cans every now and again .. . . i hate musical clocks!!

16 oz can thrown in by MeadMe. Thanks, Greg. Trying to get through a bunch of stuff over the next couple weeks. Pours a hazy orange amber hue, a bit more hazy, some more golden orange glow on the edges but a darker middle. Bigger cakey offwhite head atop stays as a firm layer, laces ok. Aromas are lemon, florals, lots of grass. A bigger earthy and mellow citrus hop component offers some life, touch catty, with soap, gentle bready malts, biscuits, more soap and florals. Initial is firmly bitter, florals and lemon, grass, earthy big bitterness hits tha palate up front. Middle shows a bit sweeter slant of caramel and toast, toffee and biscuits. Sweeter middling elements start to focus into backend, a touch sticky and more girthy. Soap, earthy hops, florals hang on into that backend but a sustained bitterness doesn’t hang around. Big bitter wallop up front that tapers out to a smaller feel into the finish, sweeter substantial maltiness hits in the middle and hangs on through the finish a bit stronger where this beer starts to lose me. It’s ok, the hops lack character and the dying hops and subsequent bigger maltiness as we move on isn’t what I personally want in an IPA. It’s ok. Big maltiness even through the abrasive stronger hop front end starts as I settlle into this thing. It’s just a weird beer. Sweet backend and malty girthy feel as we keep moving further in and in. I’m sure it’s a different animal down there.. but it’s just not really my thing (Small malt bill, big assertive flavorful hop profiles).. Still, apparently it’s a historic beer down there. So, kudos to getting to try it. Cheers!

16oz can thanks to burg326 at RBWG Grand Tasting. Orange hazy with a small fizzy white lace. Sweeter malt, grainy nose. Flavor shows a bit of hop bitterness, pine, earth, and more grain.

16oz can thanks to burg326 at RBWG Grand Tasting. Pours a hull haze orange. Weak head formation. Nose is dusty, cheesy, sweet tea, squash. Taste is lemon tea, cantaloupe, mint, spices, squash. Palate is sticky, dusty.