 illidurit (851), Santa Cruz, California, USA
May 23, 2009 Pours a crystal clear orange-gold with a nice beige cap of foam. Aroma is soft and sweet, with notes of peach, orange, and bubblegum. A bit too faint and sweet for me. Candied lemon wedge flavor with some pithy grapefruit and a pale malt finish with medium bitterness. A little sweet overall but the hops are bright and the bitterness is solid and unastringent.
scoth (266), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
May 20, 2009 Pours clear amber-gold, with a thin white head, fine lacing. Strong pine aroma, with some grass, dough and caramel underneath. Medium body, velvety, lightly dry. The malt flavors are subtle, caramel, white-bread, turning into citrus and a sweet grapefruit finish. Mild bitter pine-resin aftertaste. Very drinkable.
alagnak (293), Littleton, Colorado, USA
May 18, 2009 Bomber - great nose, crisp pine with some citrus (lemon?) - tastes as it smells, but a bit more subdued and a little watery. Solid IPA, nothing special, but I felt like having another immediately, so bonus points for that and the price.
SorenE (110), , New Zealand
May 17, 2009 Pale golden, white head. Citrus and maltiness in flavour and aroma.
Solid example of the style, no more, no less. tasty but not exeptional.
CanIHave4Beers (833), Des Moines, Iowa, USA
May 14, 2009 Pours a clear golden with lots of effervessence and a good billowy white head. Aroma is grassy with some nice citrus. I’ve had countless IPAs with grassy aromas, but I doubt I’ve ever had one with a grassy flavor, until now. Very earthy, wonderfully spicy with a very good hoppiness, but not without a strong malt backbone with a good grainyness. This is really a nice IPA, far better than I had expcected, if a bit one dimensional.
sudsmeister (40), Colorado, USA
May 13, 2009 This is a nice, well balanced IPA. Pours gold with moderate carbonation. Quite dry with little aftertaste. Priced better than most.
Delirium (495), Santa Cruz, California, USA
May 13, 2009 Bomber. Pours golden with a smallish white head. Aroma is malt with some clean, understated hops. Flavor is well balanced and also understated, a mixture of slightly sweet crystal malt, substantial earthy hops in the background, a hint of citrus, hint of yeast, and a bitter finish. Not a big American west-coast-style IPA, but not as laid-back as a British-style IPA either. Does have quite a bit of both hops and malts, and the 6.2% alcohol is completely unnoticeable; but it all manages to come across as not very bold. Respectable and well made, though.
snuffla (95), Chch, New Zealand
May 5, 2009 Pours straw coloured with flashes of amber and slighlty cloudy. Nose was bready and orangey. Clean tasting, not overly hoppy despite the dry hopping and not really very bitter for an IPA. Nice softness in the mouth and mid weight finish with orange marmalade notes
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