Acme California IPA

Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Fort Bragg, California USA

Bottle poured into pint glass. Explosive carbonation when opened. Poured clear goulden colour with a large creamy white head. Nice aroma with pink grapefruit. Nice flavour until the finish which ended with flat bitterness and lingering after-taste. OK IPA.

This is just about everything I don’t like about IPA. I should not ethat I generally do not like IPAs, but ironically, do rather like some double IPAs which I find to be more flavourful and less bitter (an unexpected but true situation). This is a basic American IPA: gold, thick white head that slowly dissipates leaving fairly good lcaing. The aroma is a mild hint of hops with a strong odour of B.O. (old sweat) and a hint of pine. The taste is primarily pine sap with a hint of malt in the overriding bitterness that leaves a dry toungue and unpleasant feel. Compared to Laguniats IPA, this at least tastes like beer, but it is more bitter. What I find funny is that I rather like double IPAs but greatly dislike most IPAs like this.

Aroma is malt and hop but first taste is nothing but hop. There might be some malt deep underneath but this is a very well hopped beer. Flavor is grapefruit. Malt shows up late and, for a malt beer lover, it is well needed.

Very hoppy right out of the bottle. Nice citrus hops in aroma and flavor. The malt is just enough to be pretty damn good.

One of my fav’s. Well balance hoppyness with fantastic head. smooth as tiger woods. great beer out of a bottle!

12oz Bottle Gravity Room - Olympia, WA
Golden yellow in color with a nice frothy head. The aroma was light with hops. The flavor had a good balance with hops and malts the hops stood out just a tad more being an IPA. Clear and crisp finish this was a decent masses brew. The Hops where too light for me but being a NW beer drinker we are used to IPA’s that kick in your teeth.

Bottle: Pours a cloudy orange gold in color with a big white head. Aroma, citrus, grassy, some spicy yeasty notes. Flavor, pale bready malt notes, with some caramel, citrus and grassy hop flavors, with some yeast in there as well.

Bottle. Light rye bread note for the malt with flowers and herbs for the hops and a faint leather smell for the yeast and raisin in the background. Head is small, a little off-white, both creamy and bubbly, mostly lasting and has good lacing. Color is hazy amber/orange. Flavor starts moderately acidic and the long finish is lightly sweet and moderately bitter. Palate is light to medium, dry and has a lively carbonation with a finish that’s metalic, astringent and very dry. Not enough complexity in flavor and aroma to say this is a really good IPA, but still a good drinking beer.