Tommyknocker Pick Axe IPA

Brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Idaho Springs, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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355ml bottle from a random liquor store in Kissimmee Florida. Deep orange with an off white head, clear, laces nicely. Big malty nose with some faded hops, seems kinda old. Big malty flavour, the hops are there but they are faded. Drinking like a barley wine light. Good enough. FLVC2 #2

A nice orange-amber body with a white head that had some nice retention, but no lace. Aroma had a nice kick of resin hops and some grapefruit hops. Malts were almost non-existent. Flavor did have a nice hop profile. It certainly was not too bitter and it had just the right amount of grapefruit hops to it. It could have used a little more malt sweetness to it. Finish was dry.

Bottle pours an orange amber with a thin white head. Aroma is piney with a bit of citrus hops. Taste is bitter with a bit of sweetness coming from the malt, a bit of spruce and grapefruit. Nice carbonation, but the taste is a bit underbalanced for me.

12oz bottle. The pour was a hazy orange with a nice reddish hue and an average (1-2 finger) off white creamy head that was mostly lasting, reducing to a thick puddled film and medium collar with excellent full sheeting of sticky lacing. The aroma was of a light grain malt, pine hops and a soapy yeast with notes of caramel and citrus (grapefruit and orange peel). The taste was bitter sweet and decently malty with a light touch of caramel and a hint of grapefruit early on, becoming a bit hoppier and having a slight citrus peel bitterness towards the finish. The flavor lasted an average duration following the swallow, with a mild citrus peel bitterness left behind to linger a bit longer on the taste buds. Mouthfeel was light in body with a dry, oily texture and a carbonation that was quite lively. Overall this was a smooth and easy to drink IPA with a nice well rounded flavor. It was a brew that was not overpowered by an excessive bitterness, but rather blended together well with the caramel sweetness creating a pleasurable drinking experience... www.facebook.com/KAJIIsBeerReviews

12 oz. bottle pours a slightly hazy orange amber color with small white head. Aroma has pine resin, grapefruit, and caramel. Taste is bitter but not outrageously so. Medium body with very little carbonation. Slightly sticky mouthfeel An easily drinkable, good, but not great IPA.

Clear bronze with a lasting foamy white head. Fresh hop and piney aroma with some leafy bitterness. Flavor is pretty bitter and leafy and piney, with a lasting bitterness and mild malty sweetness. A little too bitter and piney for me.

Bottle from Casanova. All I can think is this bottle mus be old. Very old. I get none of the good stuff others have mentioned, I just get stale and mildly astringent beer. Ooff.

Sweet and grapefruity. Typical IPA aroma. Lovely auburn hue to the body. Head disapates quickly. I liked this IPA.

Nice honey herbal hoppy pine aroma. Amber colour, quickly fading head, maybe a little undercarbonated. Nice bitter pine, vanilla, apple hoppy taste. Nice IPA.

Bottle. Hazy golden color, medium off-white head. Aroma of grass, floral, and citrus. Mild sweet taste. Medium body, lively carbonation, mild bitter and citrusy finish. Refreshing IPA, more balance between malt and hops than most IPAs. Pretty good overall.