AleSmith YuleSmith (Summer) India Pale Ale

Brewed by AleSmith Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Diego, California USA

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange with a large frothy head. Strong citrus aroma, with a good mix of pine and sweet malt. Flavor is very nice and balanced. Nice grapefruit flavor with a sweet malty finish. Very good DIPA. Well worth the purchase.

Pour is clear bronze with a big head. Aroma is of citrus, pine and sweet malt. Pretty bitter upfront but balanced nicely with a ton of malt. Dry and very refreshng. A touch of alcohol... just enough!

courtesy of tampabrew. pours golden straw, white head. aroma, lots of nice fruity hops, mostly grapefruit. flavor, hoppy, with some sweet spices and some lingering malts and caramel. Beer is just smooth and silky on the palate, not getting too much of the bitterness.

Pours a light orange. Nose is big fresh grapefruit (reminded me of cutting open a fresh grapefruit and pouring sugar on it), lemon, oranges, floral hops, sweet caramel, light toffee and peaches. Flavor is much the same as the nose. Loads of grapefruit and sweet malt to balance it out. More flavorful than bitter. Amazing offering from Alesmith. I need to get some more of this one.

Bottle, thanks to my secret santa. Aroma of lots of orange pulp with some crackery malt. Flavor continues with loads of very bitter orange notes against heavy maltiness, sort of grainy, but very sweet-and-assertive grainy. Very pulpy and unclean-feeling, not what I expected from such a highly rated IPA. Kind of odd and just ok for me.

Thanks TampaBrew for the share. Pours hazy yellow with a white head and noticeable sediment. Nose is caramel, orange, citrus, lemon, loquat, and peach. Flavor is same with lingering floral hops and citrus bite. Medium-bodied and summer in a bottle. Bitter, but nice malt backbone. Malty, but enough hops to make it noteworthy.

Orange pour with a thick, creamy off white head. Nice bouquet of floral aromas with heavy peach and pineapple. Surprisingly, very little hops detected. Mostly caramel sweetness and alcohol. Very fluffy head. The taste is grassy and bitter with caramel, toffee, and peach flavors. Very bitter in the end and full bodied. Not too sweet and good carbonation. Dry and spicy, almost tastes like a super hoppy golden Belgian ale.

Bomber. Pours opaque brownish orange with evident high carbonation and a bubbly, lacey 2-3 fingers of head. Aroma is of pine and resin, and sharp hops. Initial flavor is smooth, with just a touch of the bitterness I was expecting. Not much movement in the palate, though some citrus does come along mid-palate to complement the major element of piney hops. Well-disguised ABV doesn’t reveal until the burn going down the esophagus. A well done summertime ale with a refreshing quality produced in large part, I feel, by the high carbonation and lack of bitterness overload sometimes found in this style. Nice stuff. NOTE: This beer got better and better as it settled and warmed up a bit. A faint nutty quality snuck in on the early palate, and a smoky twinge got in on the end. Really good.