Tremont Freedom Trail India Pale Ale

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Draft at purple shamrock. Clear burnt copper color with an ivory head. Toasted malt aroma. Sweet and malty with slight hop bitterness. Fruity

[Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm] Bronze colour, creamy head. Rich hoppy aroma of grapefruit and apricot. Sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Notes of caramel and a wealth of hop derived pineapples. Medium bitterness.

UPDATED: SEP 13, 2006 (Bottle) Pours clear, dark red with a white head. Aroma of sweet, buttery malt with hints of rasin. Tastes sweet malt and minerals. Light bitterness. A mainstream beer. Nothing wrong with it but pretty anonymous.

[Bottled. Delirium Café, Göteborg] Brown colour. Light flowery nose, bit sweetish. Sweet malty with a smooth bitterness that lasts long. Pretty mediocre beer.

(Bottle at Delirium Cafe in Gothenburg) Clear brown color with a white head. Sweet malty scent. Sweet and bitter taste. High bitterness.

On cask at Rossi’s Pizzeria Orlando,Fl. Pours dark amber, nice white head. Mainly a citrus hop flavor followed by a malty sweetness. Very balanced and not too bitter good tasting beer.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a medium amber/brown with a generous off-white head that lasted through the entire glass. Light aroma of citrus. Flavor is initially slightly sweet. The follow-through is bitter as expected in an IPA. This beer represents the style very well.

Best before Oct 2006 bottle consumed on 5/26/06.<!-- br -->Foamy white head is formed from a large amount of forced carb. It does do quite the job, as it’s slow to recede and even provides light lacing. You can smell the sweet sugars and dextrins that create it, as well. The body is a bright amber-honey with deep notes of brass. Head fades to nothing and a ring, fairly rapidly though.<!-- br -->The nose is butter and hops. So much hops that you almost don’t mind the butter. Simple, light crystal malts and tons of sweet pale malts certainly add balance. Leafy and herbal, with fresh wintergreen-like notes. Hoppy and quite well aromatic, but the butter invades.<!-- br -->Quite hoppy, I suppose you could almost say assertively so, for an English hopped beer, but it tastes like some grapefruit as well. Tons of caramel sweetness balances and adds plenty of body, but the carbonation is large and loose. Quite bitter and not at all an incompetent IPA. Probably more to Shipyard keeping the recipe unchanged and less because it’s brewed by Shipyard. Without Shipyard’s poor use of Ringwood and the filtration and pasteurization, this could be some top-notch stuff. It’s certainly plenty more clean and dry than Shipyard’s Fuggles IPA. Not as insipidly sweet either, as the hops provide a high amount of cleansing bitterness and dry, herbal-citrus flavor. Smooth mouthfeel, fresh overall and well-attenuated. No alcohol noted in aroma or flavor.

Pours a light golden brown with barely any head. Aroma is sweet and fruity, with hints of caramel and grapefruit. Goes down very smooth, with only a slight hoppy bitterness at the back of your throat. A well-balanced beer; the malts are more prominent than in most American IPAs. Definitely brewed in the English style. Overall, not bad, and it leaves a nice coating on the roof of your mouth.

Bottle. A wonderful IPA in the more traditional English style.The aroma and flavor of hops nciely balances with malts. Pours clear yellow with asmall head. Aromas of malt and caramel. I really enjoyed this beer.