Atwater Salvation IPA

Brewed by Atwater Block Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Detroit, Michigan USA

Amber/copper pour with a moderate off-white head. Nose held notes of grapefruit, caramel malt, pepper, and pine. Significant carbonation, medium body, smooth texture. Decent citrus flavor but nothing exceptional.

Dirty murky dark orange, nice tan head, plenty of lacing. Aroma and flavor more pale ale than ipa. Decent citru and pine with huge amounts of toasted/caramel flavors. Full sticky mouthfeel. Pretty standard in general, would serve as a good starter ipa.

Pours dark orange with a thin off-white head. Aroma of musky orange, funky pine, and toffee. Taste is grapefruit, ear4thy hop resin, grainy malt, and toffee. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with lively carbonation.

Pours a clear pale copper color with froathy white head. Aroma is sweet citrus hops. Flavor very plain and pretty watery with a bit of dry hop finish. Overall, very mediocre ipa.

6/07/2007: Atwater Salvation India Pale Ale pours a hazy honey color. The initial dense, foamy, off-white head produces foamy lacing and a lasting frothy crown. There isn’t too much in the aroma expect some sugary citrus candy. Likewise, the flavor is lacking a bit as the light toffee malt and mild citrus bitterness that is there are balanced to the point that they nearly cancel each other out altogether! The result is an uneventful and nearly boring beer! Even the average body (medium-light to medium ) and texture of the beer is so orginary that I almost didn’t realize that I was drinking anything. Atwater Salvation IPA is farily plain and really unexciting overall.

12 oz bottle shared by Rob at our weekly/bi-weekly beer tasting.

Bottled. Pours amber, with a rocky, light tan head. Nose is floral and citrus. Flavor is citrus and malt, with a very nice hop finish.

12oz. Aroma of fruit and malt, lightly sweet and floral with some fainter herbal and lemon notes, gaining a faint Pine-Sol character. Clear light-medium golden color with a fine, lasting head. Flavor begins with a moderate-heavy amount of bitterness, subsiding thereafter and finishing with some juicy grapefruit and husky, grainy, lightly sweet maltiness. Perhaps some trace of the alcohol noted here as well. Palate is clean and gently astringent with a medium body. Fairly basic in design and structure.

Bottle. Cloudy yellow-orange with bubbly white head. NOse is cascades falling on the lemony side of citrus. Flavor is resiny hop bitterness withouth much depth. Palate is drinkable if somewhat biting. Uninspired.