Azalea Coast East Coast India Pale Ale

Brewed by Azalea Coast Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Wilmington, North Carolina USA

Name: India Pale Ale
Date: 09/22/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Asheville

clear dark gold, fine white head, lots of drippy lace, sweet malt and butterscotch aroma, big sweet caramel malt and butterscotch flavor, light earthy bitterness, finishes with the dyactyl sweetness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2.3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

Pours a clear bright copper bronze with a well-lacing frothy white head. Aroma of semi-sweet toasty pale malts and some funky cheesy brett. Body starts lightly sweet and fully carbonated with a mild sweetness and some earthy bittering hoppiness before a drier semi-sweet pale malty finish. Finishes, airy, watery and drier. Definitely has some strange funk to it, but it’s still fairly-well balanced and complex.

on tap @HopfestNC-pours a thin white head that laces and yellow/gold color. Aroma is mild citrus hops. Taste is English mild citrus hops-pine, secondary sweet malt. OK carbonation.

Pours copper with some stray white bubbles. Smells of sweet malt and boozy. Tastes earthy and slightly resiny.

Copper, nice beige head. Creamy, caramelly aroma. Caramel and malt dominates at first, then a slight vegetal flavor. Finishes resiny and sticky. Sampled at 2007 Hickory Hops.

Appearance: Pours a clear, coppery body with a medium-sized, white head. Smell: Mild aroma, but what is there is a tart-smelling note of shamed fruits. Oh dear. Taste: Blast! This funky, tart fruitiness obscures any proper tastes of malts of hops. This, friends, is a disaster. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: This is the second bottle from Azalea Coast that seemed conspiciously tainted. They’re becoming the Siletz of the East Coast!

22oz bottle. Golden color. Stale aged aroma. Flavor is blah. Big bitterness in the finish. That’s all this bottle had.

Bottle; a pretty attractive pour. Color of copper with a big off white head. Aroma was strange; oranges, bread, and caramel with a pronounced sour/tart component. Flavor; probably would never have guessed this was an IPA; probably would have guessed some form of amber ale. Not too hoppy in the finish. That being said, it didn’t really taste all that bad. A little bit of balance and some complexity. Decent beer, just not a great representation of the style.