Cooperstown Back Yard IPA

Brewed by Cooperstown Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Milford, New York USA

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. There appears to be no freshness date on the bottle. Appearance: A small one finger thick white head sits on top of a beautiful clear amber liquid. This head settles down to thin cap which make for some spotty slick lace on the glass. Smell: It has a modest nose with some hints of sugary sweet lemon aid like citrus notes over pale white bready notes. Taste/Palate: The flavor starts with a base of sweet bready malt with hints of caramel/toffee, Butterfinger like, candy mixed in. Hop flavor adds juicy lemony citrus notes that fade into bitter piney hop notes that hang onto the palate and last well into the finish. The body has a good medium feel with nicely balanced carbonation. Notes: For me this was a very enjoyable and easy drinking IPA. I like the use of there Ringwood yeast and love that they finish the beer with some locally grown hops.

12 oz bottle. Pours a slightly hazy copper body with a one finger fizzy off-white head, lots of visible carbonation. Very light hoppy nose with a bit of pine and citrus. Some toasty and lightly caramel malt. Pretty bitter for the light hops displayed on the nose, but not a whole lot of hop flavor complexity. Finishes a bit harsh with dry toasty malt. Medium bodied, a little thick and sticky on the finish with too much fizzy prickly carbonation. Overall, not too much special here, a little overly bitter for the malt base and no complexity to the hops.

Pours a deep golden with a good lace. Aroma is mild hops with some butteryness. The flavor is lightly citrus with some hop bitterness and a good earthy character. I’m guessing there are fuggles in this one.

Had this one bottled at the brewery in Milford, New York. Medium brown pour, light citrusy hoppy nose, lemongrass, great citrusy hoppiness and a bit of coffee, just excellent.

2- 12oz. on the menu at a C.I.A restaurant in Hyde Park, NY. I’m not sure why this got such low scores. It’s not exactly true to the ’West Coast’ IPA style I’m used to, but still quite decent. I good session beer. Pours a dark amber color with a small head that stayed with me through the entire glass. It has the initial IPA aroma, but the taste takes a full 180, and tastes more like a hoppier amber ale with little of the expected hoppiness, and more of a malty flavor.

bottle poured an amber in color with a thin white head. aroma has sweet malt, dough, and light hops. mouth feel is thin with average carbonation. bitterness picks up in the flavor with good malt level, light sweetness, and a bit of citrus rind at the end of the sip. much more punch in the flavor than i would have thought.

Mini growler from Half-Time. Pours an almost hazed orange amber with a good sized white head. Toast and hops on the nose. Sweet malt on a thin body. Finishes with some grapefruit bitter, but nothing too complex.

Bottle at Qbrick. Fragrant aroma of spices and dried fruits, hops and grass. Very interesting. Lightish malt, big hops, a bit strange, but compelling.