AleSmith YuleSmith (Summer) India Pale Ale

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

Poured copper with off white head. Aroma of strong earthly hops. Flavor was much of the same with citrus hints throughout. Very smooth for an overly hopped brew.

Thanks Drewbeerme for hooking me up with a bomber of this. I believe it is ’07 simply because Andrew wouldn’t drink anything else but a fresh IIPA. Copper, hazy color with huge, long lasting, creamy white head. Lots of citrus in the aroma, a little pine, a little grain/grass and just the faintest bit of caramel. Flavor is pine, a little dough, pretty much all juicy/resin hops and some alc and little soap. Med body with a creamy carb feel. Looks beautiful but overall a very unbalanced hopbomb, I keep wanting to like it more than I do.

bottle.....aroma: heavy on the pine and citrus in addition to a sweet caramel malt component....appearance: hazy orange brown with substantial fluffy white head....taste: citrus and pretty assertive on the resin and pine. malts somewhat offset the hops but the hops prevail which is a good thing

Clear deep orance color with a thick, eggnog like head. Great lacing. Huge hay aroma with pine, resin and citrus. Clean, full bodied flavor with grapefruit and pith. Finishes very clean and somewhat dry...pithy aftertaste.

22oz bomber, no date. Hazy orange caramel with a big ’ol creamy offwhite head that lasted until the end, a thick curtain of lacing with only a few holes as I drank my glass, quite a lot of carbonation throughout. This has what I consider the classic IIPA aroma--pine, grapefruit, and caramel malts up front. There’s a bit of bit of pineapple and misc. citrus digging deeper. Flavor Is much the same except the hops get a little more perfumey. Bitterness ends up around a 6 (out of 10) at its peak, kept in check by a good amount of caramel sweetness. Burps citrus and pine needles. A bit overcarbonated with a medium body. With the exception of just a little bit of overcarbonation, this is a very solid IIPA and what I would compare other IIPAs to--it isn’t the best I’ve ever had, but very good nonetheless.

Thanks to Dr Matt. I completely forgot to rate this. Anyway, from my memory, what I remember is that it was yummy. it poured a nice copper/amber color with a white foamy head. Very crisp with a great aroma and residual grapefruit and floral bitterness. Taste was mostly of citrus and floral. I did not pick up much vanilla. It was a good DIPA, but I have had better.

Gold/copper with billowing head and nice lacing. Grapefruit, pine, pineapple floral hops to smell. A hoppy offering with quiet citrus fruits to taste, grapefruit, orange and a piney warming sensation with a slight touch of alcohol. Hides the high abv well. This is a well-bodied bruiser of a beer

A huge grapefruit aroma on tops of a orange golden beer. Flavor is sweet malt initially followed by a huge grapefruit backbone. This beer is very sweet, yet very bitter. Very dry and resiny finish. My only complaint about this beer is that it is a little too candy sweet in the malt. But I really love the intense hoppiness that kills that sweetness.