Bièropholie IPA

Formerly brewed at Bièropholie
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
, Canada

Bottle. via trade with turg. Poured slightly cloudy amber-gold with a large foamy-creamy off-white head. Mild aroma, juicy light citrus hops and slightly roast malt, yeasty and a little peppery, nice light UK hops - simple but nice. Taste is very juicy, taste of figs and biter hops, long linger - average body, quite astringent, nice carbonation - pretty decent IPA.

<b>In short: </b>A sweet malted IPA
<b>How: </b>Many times. This rating for the latest December 2007 batch
<b>The look: </b>Clear dark-red body with a small off-white head
<b>In long: </b> Of the 4 Bièropholie IPAs (IPA, Golding, Cascade, Casacade Plus) this one was usually my favourite. But now it’s nose to nose with the Casacade Plus. This latest 2007 might be a bit sweeter than I like it to be while the Cascade Plus was better than ever. Sweet dried cherries and other dried fruits. As it warms up it develop dark fruits and even a light chocolate flavour which is rather unusual for that type of beer. Short resinous-fruity bitterness. Malt sweetness take a lot of room here. Still, this is a great IPA that unlike my cousin Louis gains to be known.

A nice amber beer in color with a great foamy head that is creamy. Some reddish light hues travel that beer. A nice malty, caramel smells are present with a decent hoppist flavours that are also noticable. Some caramel flavours are present, with malt, but a decent hop presence is there too that makes herself shown. Some citrus flavours, a shy floral presense is also there. The presence of alcohol is quite decent too, I can feel it. A nice mouthfeel and very drinkable beer! nice IPA les gars!

341 ml bottle. Clear chestnut brown with a reddish hue. Pungent aroma. Deep potent caramelly malt sweetness aroma. Some notes of cardboard. Bold and thick roasty and malty body with an almost toffee-like flavour. Hoppy bitterness from pungent harsh hops. Chinook maybe? Other than that a good balance between hop and malts. Not at all cloyingly sweet. Not really my kind of IPA.

Smallish, light beige, normal head over chestnut brown body, vaguely hazy at the bottom of the bottle. Deep, sweet, malty aroma with caramel and cardboard notes. (Possible that the beer is a bit old.) Bitter, malty taste with roasty, hoppy aftertaste; malt somewhat toffee-like. Burnt toast lingering. Good, and interesting, but not great.

[Bottle 341 ml, served chilled, fresh, Blind tasting test with Mario D’Eer, dates are unknown] This was a Blind tasting test; I didn’t know what I was drinking.
This is a true IPA! Color respects the style being gold/copper. Head is nice and holds on nice and transforms eventualy to a thin film. Long bitter clean finish that take hold of the back of the tongue for a while.

Apparently the #2 version of one similar as IPA#2 is Bièropholie’s second beer called simply "IPA". You can tell which one you have by the placement of "IPA" on the label: top left is IPA#1, top right is IPA#2: Dark coppery clouded color with a medium ivory cap of sifting froth. Fades to keep a good skim and collar as it distributes a great sheeting lace in thinly placed snow shelves. Aroma is thick and malty with a big caramel/toffee scooping with a leafy, dry wood hop topping. Very clean with a smidgeon of deep woodsy alcoholic vapor. Taste is a bit understated, not much hop bite or profile beyond a weakened dry woodish sense flaoting around the edges of a dulled caramel/toffee malting that tends to make up the overall sensibility of its character from front to back. Clean tasting, but unfulfilling in the fashion of any IPA. Dryish finish of wood and fresh hop cone leafyness calmly sets a light dash across the palate with a dusting of chocolate and cardboard. Feel is a little flattened, no real snap or bitterness, nor carbonation or body. Clean, creamy, but weakened mediumish body, perhaps from age as the bottle has no freshness dates? Glides down fairly well with its clean, softly creamyness found from its big malt base evident from the waft of caramel on the nose and overall taste. The hops try to push forward but never quite make it. It conjures up memories of fresh west coast IPA’s by Stone but without the full hop onslaught or freshness. Perhaps an extremely fresh tapping or bottling could produce a better product then what transpired through the trade this was acquired in. Thanx Sammy!

12z bottle. Pours a deep copper color, small head that dissipates quickly to a thin film. Aroma of citrus, biscuity malt, pine, and some butter notes. Flavor has a nice assertive resiny hop bite, more citrus, heavy malt and a very good crisp finish. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, with a nice soft carbonation level. I really like the complex taste of the blend of hops in this. The more dominate variety seems to change between mid sip and finish, and as the beer warms as well. Nice beer.