Arcadia India Pale Ale

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

Nice dark orange in color with a whiteish-tan head that grew fast and stayed around for a while. Hops and light citrus nose. The taste isn’t as hoppy as most IPAs, but more of a sweeter malt with an a touch of bubblegum taste.

Pours orange with lots of head. Sweet and fruity aroma with strong hops. I don’t know why, but I really didn’t like this beer, there are much better IPAs I would rather buy.

Pours a burnt orange with thin head, minimal lacing. Floral hop aroma. Flavor was citrus and earthy hops balanced by a malt sweetness. Dry, mild bitterness to the finish. Easy drinking IPA, good session beer.

copper hue with beige head, it has grapefruit aroma with hint of spice. the flavor starts fruity and ends bitter.

Poured an effervescent clear amber with a large frothy off-white head. Aroma is surprisingly sweet with caramel, cinnamon, maple syrup, a bit of ruby grapefruit and plum. Flavor is dryer than the aroma, with some earth bitterness, a bit of lemon, maybe some mint. Finishes somewhat toasty and a little dry. Body feels rather thin. Sort of a dark, toasted IPA that is certainly interesting but not quite substantial enough to stand out in its style.

This review won’t make sense to people outside the Knoxville area, but here goes - So I poured this thing and got a HUGE head. Like, pour half the bottle, to take a leak, come back, and still have to wait for it to subside. Really big. I immediately thought of New Knoxville IPA, which is prone to doing the same thing. So to smelled it and got a yeasty, fruity aroma, also like NK IPA. Then I remembered that NK’s brewer used to work for Arcadia, or was associated with them somehow. Something like that. So, at any rate, I sip it, and get that same yeasty fruitiness mixed with a harsh hop bite. Exactly like NK IPA tastes like, usually. I say "usually", because no two batches of NK IPA taste exactly the same, but I digress. So I figure this must be where NKBC stole.. I mean, Arcadia must be a strong influence on NKBC. just an observation.

wonderful floral smell, sweet dry hops well-balanced with a delicate malt delivery. had on tap at Arcadia brew pub. light head with nice copper color

Bottle. Tulip glass. Pours an orange amber with a nice thick head. Weird stinky aroma that is saved by the citrus and floral notes. Taste is not overly bitter or hoppy and is balanced by a fair amount of sweet malt. Palate is medium to thin but with a brominated vegetable oil coating. Smooth. Somewhere between an Englsih IPA and an AMerican IPA.