Abbey Brewing Immaculate IPA

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

Draught at Abbey Brewing Company Miami Beach, Florida. Pale amber. Fruity apricot and melon aroma. Dry with clean mouthfeel and medium body. An odd, dusty near smokey flavour disturbs the grapefruity hops. Long. salty, bitter finish.

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.

on tap-pours an off white head and gold? Color. Aroma is faint hops. Taste is hops bite, medium malt, close to crossing over to APA. Good carbonation. Easy drinking IPA/APA.

Draft... Clear golden ale with a small, fizzy, white head. The aroma is of toffee, subtle grapefruit and mild evergreen. The flavor offers sweet toffee and biscuit with light grapefruit bitterness. Medium to full-bodied and creamy with stinging carbonation. Bitter-sweet, grassy finish. A good English IPA confused by PNW hopping.

My Bottom Line:
Sweet orangey hops are cleanly dissipated into a timid, grainy finish in this surprisingly feeble American IPA.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A quasi-absent nose for an American IPA is more than disappointing.
-A ring of foam surrounds the light amber.
-Some resinous hops remain approachable.
-There is a much better American IPA example at Titanic Brewing, near the University of Miami.
-After reading other ratings, I wonder if this beer varies considerably from batch to batch.

On tap at the brewpub.

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.

On tap at the brewpub. Poured a clear medium amber with almost no head. Lighter nose, yet crisp.. with grapefruit and caramel representin’. Flavor was more potent, with lots of grapefruit, citrus, and grassy hoppage, slight graininess, and enough smooth caramel as a base. Crisp, smooth, and well-balanced on the palate. Good stuff.

I found this over-the-top bitter. It had 4 hops mixed in, Clean the palate and suck the hops bitterness. Amber and golden. Grapefruit aroma and taste and medium consistency. Session ale.