Barley Island Barfly IPA

Brewed by Barley Island Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Noblesville, Indiana USA

Bottle at the Febmergency tasting. Pours cloudy golden orange with beige head. The aroma is sweet caramel, grain, and some spicy hops. The flavor is sweetish caramel malt, some fruity hop notes. The finish is sweet. Decent, but needs more assertive bitterness.

Bottle at decaturstevo’s Februmergency Tasting for those of us that missed out on Sexual Chocolate ’09 thanks to decaturstevo. Semi-clear amber pour with thin white head. Nose is light hop with an oatmeal quality that is nicely balanced. Flavor tends toward the hops with some bittering. Enjoyable enough i suppose.

This beer is a clear copper color with a thin and dense off-white head that diminishes steadily. Stringy lacing. Citrusy hops in the nose with floral touches. Medium body with flavors of floral hops and citrus along with light malt. The finish is hoppy with a bitter aftertaste that does not linger too long. Decent overall.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber with no head. Hoppy aroma with lots of grapefruit. Piney and citrusy hop flavor with a good malt balance. Medium, almost thin finish.

Bottle: Pours a murky caramel color with a modest, creamy beige head. Smells strong of floral hops, but also wheaty. Maybe even a bit soapy? Taste is rather dry and abrasive. Florals, again soapy, and some wheat. Hot and brash. Plain and simple, I just didn’t like it.

Another quality session IPA. The lowest ABV of any IPA I would buy for regular consumption. Tasty..but could be improved upon a little bit. A brand new batch was just made. I’m with the guy who thinks Chinook...I love the grapefruit taste in this beer. Mad Anthony India Pale Ale is 100% Chinook so that might explain why I like Barley quite well. I’ll ask Mike at Barley and report back with reviews on their full line.

Received in a trade with mmm///beer, so thanks bro. The beer was quite nice actually, with enough hops to satisfy this West Coast hop head. No it wasn’t a flat out assault on the senses, but subtley has it’s place and it had a place in this beer.

The beer poured out a clear, medium/dark amber color with a 2-finger light tan head. Aroma was mostly citrusy, slightly vegetative, a bit astringent, with a light toasted malt angle. Flavor had notes of citrus, a bit iced tea to it, some minor malt sweetness but the thing that suprised me at how dry it was, which really seemed to amplify the hoppage. Nice beer!

bottle thanks to mmm///beer. deep ruby color with a 1 finger cream head. great hoppy, citrusy and slight spicy scent. good thickness and a mild hop flavor that isn’t bitter.