Buckeye 76 India Pale Ale

Brewed by Buckeye Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Lakewood, Ohio USA

Bottle provided via trade with moejuck. Pours hazy orange with an average frothy off-white head, somewhat lasting, fair lacing. Aroma is average malt (grain, cereal, meal), heavy hops (herbs, flowers, grass), average yeast (dough) with notes of pear. Medium bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

Draught: Pours orange copper, small white head. Mostly an orange hop taste with other citrus and grapefruit following then piney hops in the aftertaste. Malts are there with crystal coming through. An IPA without the harsh bite is a good thing bitterness wasn’t too strong at all just hop flavor. Good beer.

22 oz bottle via Ohiodad (thanks!). This one pours a hazy golden amber with a huge white head. Nose is citrus, pine and fruity easters. Taste is quite nice, with all the aromatic notes coming through into the taste, it does have a somewhat dry metallic aftetaste though. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. Moderate carbonation. A pretty good IIPA.

Bottle from bgburdman9; Citrusy (orange smelling), flowery aroma, very hoppy; slightly hazed orenge with a medium glass-lacing yellowish head; flavor isorangish combined with medium hop bitterness along with some minor caramel malt notes. Pretty darn good, but still not quite as good as my favorite Moylans I compare IPAs to!

Nice big bottle. Thanks JOEMUCK!. This brew pours out a hard to tell color? I cant see if its amber red, or just a cloudy orange. Anyway, good beer. The hops smack you in the face with a citrousy, almost perfume aroma.A nice grassy smell similar to a fresh cut lawn. Spicy and bitter. Def taste the orange grind and tangerine taste which is awesome. Good drinkable beer but the high alchol is present.

Bottle. A steal for $4/bottle. Pours a hazy coppery color witha fairly substantial off white head, tha hangs on for a while, nice lacing. Aroma is grapefruit, pine, malt. Flavor is big grapefruit, cedary pine, floral hops, decent malt backbone. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation, excellent clean, crisp, bitter finish. Superb.

What a fine drinkable IIPA. Pours clear bronze with a light tan head. The aroma is fresh hops - pineapple / grapefruit / citrus along with a sturdy malt there for balance. Smooth medium / thick body with a good amoutn of soft carbonation. and very resiny. Flavor starts with the pineapple character hops along with a spicy hop bite - like the aroma it is very well balanced by the malt. The finish has a continued tropical hops presence along with more spice and piney / woodiness. A very well crafted IIPA. Too bad I only have one more bottle.

Thanks for the bomber, moejuck! Bottle was slightly leaky upon receipt so like any flat beer fearing beer mongrel, I tore right into it and it was still in great shape. Delicious hops with just the right balance in the malt. Too bad there’s only 1000 made because I could go for 999 more. Tonight. As in I would like to try and drink the entire batch right here, right now.