Brew Kettle I.P.A.

Bomber thanks to Miver. Poured a medium and clear amber color with lage sized off white head. Aromas of citrus (some rinds), toasty, and floral. Tastes of citrus, the same toastiness, and earthy. Lively body.

Poured a lightly hazy golden amber color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, grass, floral hops, toffee and toast. Taste of toast, cardboard, citrus fruits, earth, and light grapefruit.

Thanks to Miver for leaving this beer with hopdog to share. Pours a translucent golden amber wiith a medium bubbly off white head that left lacing. Aroma of tropical fruits, grapefruit, melons and light caramel notes. Flavor of pine, earthy notes, grapefruit, bready malt, toasted malt and lots of carbonation.

22 oz bomber. Pours a clear orange copper with a medium white head. Faint aroma of tangy citrus, bitter hops and a hint of grapefruit. Taste is faintly hoppy with orange and grapefruit undertones. Average.

At Skippers for Ohio Brew Week... plenty of hops and bitterness make this beer a nice summer treat...

This is a good looking ale, a bright copper body with a tall & rocky pale khaki head that laces in chunks. There’s a sweetness in the aroma that’s nearly buried by scents of pine, grapefruit, and tart tangerine. A thick, sweet caramel is balanced by bitter flavors of pine, grapefruit and the finish maintains that balance. Had it been a tad more bitter I’d have rated it higher. Still, a quaffable IPA.

<font size=-4>From my esteemed The LoSBD colleague <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=18655>frankenkitty.<font size=-1>

An eager pour produced a three-finger, ecru head that fell slowly and laced in a frothy spackle above a copper-penny body. Big grapefruit nose, lemony soap, light injection-mold-plastic notes. Resiny, grapefruity flavor with a malty sweetness I wished for in <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ringneck-4-cs-pale-ale/40738/18655/>Ringneck’s 4C’s Pale Ale. Dry palate with astringence after. It’s a decent IPA and I find it hard to believe that no other RateBeerians have sampled this since ’05.

<font size=-4>22 oz. bomber from <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/ohio/strongsville/the-brew-kettle/695.htm>The Brew Kettle Strongsville, OH 44136</font>

Bottle: Dark mahogany pour. Aroma shows some toasted malt, carmel, slight pine and resin. Light carbonation. Woody, malty, slightly sweet flavors are there, but this is really muddy and cluttered on the palate. Though there is a bitter touch to the finish, this really was missing the crispness and big hops I look for in an IPA.