Uinta Hop Notch IPA

Brewed by Uinta Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Excellent IPA, citrus pine grassy aroma, dank spruce hop bitterness against a solid but in the background backbone. Nice lacing, balanced finish. Perfect abv for an IPA and carefully woven into the hops and malt to make this almost too drinkable. Top notch it is.

Bottle at home. Pours a hazy orange, one finger head, nice lacing. Aroma is citrus and grass. Taste is pleasantly bitter; little malt. Solid.

A - loads of citrus fruit, apricot, and mango. A - poured a clear pale gold with minimal head. T -sweet malt flavors kept in balance by bitterness. Hop flavors of citrus and apricot & mango agree withthe aroma. P - medium bodied with a hint of hop and malt stickiness kept in check by good carbonation. O - Great beer overall. I’d describe this a Wyld’s big brother. Tastes like a fuller bodied version of Uinta Wyld. Which is a complement as Wyld is a fine pale.

Snifter from bottle. A: pretty medium fragrance, simply smells of hops with slight citrus. App: clear, golden color with a slight amber hue. Long lasting, slightly tan, frothy head T: very top hopped, probably 3 hop varietals, predominantly goldings, very light front and very light back, same hop character all the way through. P: medium bubbles, goes down smooth with a minor burn/bite in the throat from the hops. Medium to long lasting aftertaste.

Bottled. Pours a cloudy gold. Mellow, but slightly spicy hop aroma, with hints of citrus. Flavor is very balanced up front, citrus, light fruit and sweet, bready malt mingling together, followed by a dry burst of pine. Bitter, alcoholic kick of a finish that lingers for a good while. Oily mouthfeel, light to medium bodied. Overall, a quite nice IPA, but a little rough around the edges.

Did not live up to the hype. Not hoppy enough, and flavor profile rather boring ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle. Deep orange, looks like a thick IPA. Pinky finger of white head, lacing will occur. Nose is very fresh with a strong presence of esters, for some reason I think of a sugary apple. Taste is fruity and slightly malty up front; this is accompanied by a lasting, yet somewhat mellowed, bitterness. Mouthfeel is slightly thick like I predicted; sweet with very little carbonation. Good brew, would like to see a better malt backbone though.

Light copper color with good lacing. Decent pine smell with some malt. Flavor is a very solid hop but yet kind of crisp and clean.. very decent IPA. Malta kinda sit on the palate a little bit after a while.

Pours a deep golden-approaching-amber color. Aggressive bottle pour yielded a 2-inch head that slowly dissipated, left a nice lacing on the glass. Disappointed in the aroma, guess I’ve been spoiled by the floral aromas of competing IPAs. Solid bitterness, but not balanced entirely right with the malts. A good beer, but not one of my faves and IPAs are one of my favorite styles. Something missing in the malt complexity, so it’s a little too hoppy. Won’t be plunking down cash for another sixer of this too soon.

From bottle to tulip. Clear copper color. I am a hop lover and this is the perfect combination of malty, citrusy, hoppy flavor. I like it a lot.