Abbey Brewing Immaculate IPA

Brewed by Florida Beer Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Melbourne, Florida USA

On tap at the brewpub. Pours clear copper with off white head and cobweb lacing. The aroma is malty first with moderate roasted malts, bread and malt sweetness followed by mild and muted citrus to pine hops. The taste has an initial pulse of citrus to grassy hops before a wave of malt sweetness quickly catches on and works to take over the flavor. By midway the citrus grapefruit hop bitterness builds and takes over the experience for a while. The hops dwindle into the finish as malty sweetness comes to the surface again to take this beer to closure.

On tap at Abbey. Dark amber. Frothy pour. Nice light grapefruit aroma. Malty body, grainy and chewy with a touch or wort. Decent hop level. Malt sweetness makes for a heavier body. Trends to wards heavy, raw and hoppy.

Pint - Abbey Brewing - Miami Beach, Fl
Aroma – Strong IPA aroma,
Appearance – Gold in color, Nice head and clear.
Flavor – Good strong IPA flavor. Very nice.
Palate – Good Mouthfeel, nice texture with a dry finish.
Overall – Drank at the Abbey what a great IPA beer. I enjoyed this beer.

Brick amber colour. Has a tropical fruit hoppiness in the nose with a light toasty malt character. Blueberry and cantaloupe taste with moderate bitterness and a malt character mixing caramel and toastiness.

Draft at Abbey. Poured hazy copper color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate sour citrus spruce aroma. Medium body with a slick texture. Medium bitter flavor with a medium balanced finish of moderate duration. This is a good beer.

Pours a fairly hazy amber with a small off white head. Smells of crisp piney hops, very fresh smelling, with light grapefruit citrus in there too. Nice and simple IPA nose. The flavor is on the hoppy side, but mostly pine with liight citrus backing it up pretty much. Light bitterness left in the finish and the lingering aftertaste. Very nice little session IPA I would say. Nothing over the top, but kept simple which is good in some cases.

(Draught at Abbey Brewing Company, Miami Beach) Orange color, small offwhite head. Fruity aroma with some grassy bitterness. Fruity flavor, grassy and with a late balanced bitterness.

While I really enjoyed the other two house-brewed beers I had at Abbey Brewing (the quad and the imperial stout), I thought this one was rather marginal based on a flat mouthfeel and some not very exciting bitterness. Things between this beer and I started out well enough, as it presented an attractive image of beeriness - copper colored, a bit hazy, with a small white head. However, things started going south at aroma, as the beer smelled just slightly bitter but with no real discernible complexity and no intensity. Flavor was the same, slightly bitter but without any piney, grassy, real dryness, or citrus to keep my interest. This beer could really benefit from upping the alpha acids in the recipe (add more hops!). The beer also didn’t have a real significant malt presence, which combined to make a flavor that just seemed barely there. It wasn’t flawed as far as I could detect, it just struck me as really boring. Mouthfeel was fairly flat (in fact this was the first thing I noted about this beer upon tasting), which made the whole package a bit disappointing, particularly having had the other two very good Abbey Brewing beers first. I wouldn’t really recommend this beer. Have yourself another Imperial Stout or Quad at the Abbey instead. I had this beer on-tap at the Abbey Brewing Co in Miami Beach.