Weyerbacher Hops Infusion

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Date: 04/27/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

Appearance: hazy dark yellow, whispy white head
Aroma: sweet carmel aroma with pleasant floral hops
Flavor: big hop flavor followed by well balanced sweetness, nice bitter finish,
-------- /> Date: 01/13/2007
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2005
Words: vertical

Appearance: lots of lace
Aroma: picking up nice grapefruit sweetness in the aroma
Flavor: sweet caramel malt flavor balanced by hop flavor but subdued rather than agressive, more sweetness as expected than the 2006
-------- /> Date: 01/13/2007
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2006
Words: vertical

Appearance: lots of lace
Aroma: more of an earthy floral aroma with dry caramel malt
Flavor: flavor is also subdued and balanced, more of a long bitter finish than the 2005, the newer year has more of a bitterness than the old

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

12 oz bottle. Amber golden beer, lightly orange with a creamy off-white head. Decent hop aroma, orange/grapefruit over soft pale malts. Soft bitterness and a fairly prominent metallic character that fades, but is very distracting at first. Once it does, the orange/tangerine character really comes to the fore. Moderate bitterness. Nice IPA and I imagine it would have benefitted from being fresher.

Sweet pine and citrus hit the nose. I’m from the southeast, U.S . These are the smells of home. We are the hot version of the northwest. I enjoy this more than some other highly ranked American hop beers. While huge hops arouse your senses, the malt comes across with class. Very even for such a big taste. I was skeptical. I am more than pleased.

Pours a nice dark amber color, and a nice foamy head. The is heavenly. Floral, grapefruity, fruity aroma. The taste is outstanding. Off the bat I taste grapefruit and lots of it. Which is not a bad thing to me. A great IPA by a great brewery. I have yet to be disappointed by one of there IPAs.

Decent IPA. The initial flavor is dominated by hops, obviously. The finish is extremely dry and unpleasant, but disappears on the next sip. Not much malt flavor. Slightly unbalanced, but good beer.

Pours a deep amber into a shaker. Fluffy off-white conglomerate head leaves sheet lacing as it slowly recedes. Pine, citrus and resin aromas. Tangy citrus up-front, sharp with a lasting metallic bitter finish. Flavor does not match the aroma.

Pours an orange-ish copper with thin light tan head. The first impression of the taste and aroma is wow, really nice mix of hops and malts. The aroma has a pine hop bitterness with floral hop edges. Rounding out the aroma is a sweet smelling maltiness. The flavor hits first with a sizable pine hop bitterness that rides the flavor to the midway point. Beyond that a sweet maltiness, slight roasted maltiness and a tasty buttery note that really adds to the mix. That medley of malt tastes is brief. The pine hop bitterness squashes it. Around the edges of the pine is a hint of floral hops. Very nice brew.

Floral hoppy aroma with hints of crystal malts, nice lacing. sweet malts up front, bitter hop finish