Arcadia Batch 999 Imperial IPA

Formerly brewed at Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

Beautiful unfiltered and rusty bronze in color with a speckled, bubbly grey head. Hop smack aroma, tree sap, lilies, honey, caramel and a prevailing trait of dryness. Flavor rolls in with a nutty, red ale style malt complexity. Hops are at the forefront, bristling with a tree bark-esque conjecture. Age has made this a sophisticated, borderline strong ale. Undertone accents of spruce, toffee and pecans. Palate encasing and smoothly balanced. Finishes with honey and hops. Special thanks to Styles for sending this one my way!

12 oz. bottle via Pailhead . a murky rust color with a massive foamy head that took several minutes to subside. very sticky on the lips without much sweetness on the tongue. a very dry bitter finish. IMO the carbonation was too much.

Poured a dark amber color with a small off white head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus hops, perfume, pine, and caramel malts. Taste of citrus fruits, caramel malts, nuts, and a bitter grapefruit finish. Thanks hopdog!

Bottle ’04. Poured orangew with a HUGE tah head. Lots of hops in the nose. Along with citrus and sweetness. The flavor was hoppy, damn made me pucker up. But, there was flowers in the upper palate, as well and orange and spice on the tongue. Mouth feel, to me was just right. Thanks again to Mike.

The head was HUGE (careful). Huge foamy white head with excellent lacing atop a murky orange, rust colored body. The aroma oranges, flowers, other fresh citrus, and a light malt. The flavor is sweet caramel malts, pine, lime?. Mostly caramel and pine. The palate is a bit to "thick" for an IPA.

pours a nice light orange color w/ a huge sticky well laced off white head lots of carb bubbles and a bit of a gusher when it opens. Smells good very big crisp citrus hop a nice carmel malt hints of some bread. Palate is a nice solid mouth feel creamy smooth a little sweet decent carbonation. Flavor is a good sweet light carmel malt w/ a nice big citrus hop kick a little pine definate gum and some light fruit, oranges. This is some really good stuff would make a great session beer.

12 oz. bottle: Open ’em if you got ’em, had one blow up on my friend. Murky rusty/orange, plenty o’ sediment, tan sustaining head. Hops, flowery at that, share the aroma with some stale bread, woodsy/outdoor airiness, bubblegum notes. Dark fruit and citrus meld together in the flavor, with the hops finally showing up in the end. Mouthfeel is chewy and dry.

Unclear orange IPA. Quite a lot of citrus in the aroma. Finsih is bitter with sweet hints. A plesant complex IPA. A nice beer.