Victory Herkules

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

Clear golden with a fizzy white head. Grapefruit and pine aroma. Bready lime and orange taste with a crisp grainy finish.

From tap at Hollingshead. Pours almost clear, golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is crisp mango and orange fruity hoppy. Crisp hoppy flavoured, light mango fruity and lowly going into a more grapefruity flavour. Smooth fruity and crisp bitter finish, dry.

Sort of a small IPA, malty, fruity, lightly hopped. I had one of the rare bottles prepared for, or before, the GABF. Orange color, small head, nose of caramel and American hops. Taste of caramel, sweet malts, sweet fruit, citrus hops. Long but tempered bitter finish.

Draft at brewpub. Pours coppery with orangy edges and 2-finger off-white head. Nose is hoppy, grapefruity and floral. Tastes floral and hoppy, with a solid bready caramel malt bill and some tangerine, pineapple, and spicy flavor hints.

@CBC-12oz bottle-pours a white ring for a head and amber color. Aroma is spice hops, secondary light/medium malt-caramel. Taste is bitter spice hops, secondary light/medium malt-caramel. Aggressive carbonation.

On tap at Verdugo in LA: Pours a transparent bright golden with an airy, frothy white head. Aroma of semi-sweet pale malt and lots of herbal grassy noble hops. Body is similar to the nose with a ton of real earthy herbal hops, maybe something like Tettnang, and a touch of biscuity malt before a drier, crisp bittersweet finish. This doesn’t real seem like an IPA, but more like a hoppy Belgian ale with European hops.

Draft. An amber beer with an orangey head. The aroma has notes of hops and grass. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and grass - a bit odd in my opinion, leading to a dry and very bitter finish.

On Draft at the brewpub. Pours clear bronze color. Taste is twisting and twirling fruit hops, with some notes of pine.