Alaskan IPA

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Juneau, Alaska USA

From a 12 oz bottle purchased in Clarkston, Washington, this poured a gold color with fluffy and long lasting white head and moderate lacing. Nose of light hops, with some pine and flowers. Medium mouthfeel Flavor of citrus and mild malts. Long bitter finish.

Sweet citrus aromas, mild hop aromas, more sweet malts, with some biscuit. Light gold, blonde color. Very sweet for an ipa, very mild hop flavor, some citrus, with notes of pine resin, with more honey malts. Very mild ipa, i prefer something with more kick. Good session beer though.

One has hopes for a brewery with decent sized distribution to produce a tasty IPA, alas this one misses on several levels. More of a boring APA than an IPA, not enough of anything to make it interesting. Please re-spin this recipe and try again.

Bottle. Pours a nice red golden color. The head forms a nice foamy white head the faded down with a thin lacing of the glass. Aroma is mostly floral hops with fruity citrus. Good carbonation and a nice bitter taste.

Crisp, but ultimately flavorless. The aroma is that of a pine forest - giving you high expectations. The first taste, however, is a grapefruit note. After that it fades quickly. This IPA poured a clear gold to light amber in a half-yard. The head was white and frothy.

Pours a nice golden with slight orange color. Medium cream colored head. Nose is of citrus and resin. Very nice lacing which stays on the side of the glass. Head does not dissapate. A light bitter flavor. The body is medium, average carbonation with a long bitter finish. Very nice beer for the style.

22 oz. bomber bottle, freshness date in the lower left hand corner of the label, sampled in an imperial pint glass. Poured a clear bright golden copper with a nice size foamy white head that slowly settled into a thin sudsy lacing, minimal amount of laced sticking. Plentiful supply of flowing tiny micro bubbles going from the bottom of the glass to the top. Tamed hoppiness in the nose, floral, fruity and citrus zesty, the dry hopping is not that noticeable. A light backing from the sweet pale malts. At first I wasn’t that impressed by the taste, but it is growing on me, especially as it slowly warms. Nice and mild northwest hoppiness, fruity, citrus zesty along with a tastes of candied citrus peel and a leafy hop oil stickiness on the tongue. Not a taste bud killer, but does have a hop prickliness in the palate. Soft backbone from the pale sugary, dry biscuit maltiness. Velvety moderate bodied feel, firm from the carbonation, goes down easy, quite consumable.

Bomber pours clear gold with bright white head. The aroma smells like white granular sugar and mild citrus hops. It seems to have the standard IPA flavor with citrus hops that run from bitter grapefruit to slightly less bitter tangelo. Also there’s some malty to bland sugary sweetness.