Drafting Room 10th Anniversary Ale

Formerly brewed at Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

Extremely aromatic, bright and juicy aroma -- reminded me of LaConner Bottleworks, but with some woody tones. Sweet, slightly sugary nose, filled with grain and hop flowers. Graham cracker in the finish, along with pungent, fresh Florida grapefruit. Tasty and brilliantly crafted. Thanks Eric!

Hazy coppery-orange. Fine-bubbled dusty-white head. Scents of grapefruit rind bathing in pine resin. Hint of lightly scorched caramel, nuts, and rich toasted malts. Tight carbonation with a thick, jellyish body. Beautifully rounded body carries the chewy caramel, which coats the palate and offsets the brash pine flavors, early on. Hint of apple acidity deepens the brew, but is mostly squelched by the thickness of the body and rich caramel malt. Late surge of leafy herbs and bitter pine restore the sharpness to the explosive tangerine hop aspects. Finishes with a plethora of savory hop bitterness, yet with oodles of soft, juicy hops and sweet toasted malts, nuts, and buttered caramel. Caramel aftertaste balances the lingering grapefruit and spicy evergreen. This is remarkably clean and focused, just as IPA should be. These guys exude nothing but mastery when it comes to the use of a hopback.

Orange-copper, bubbly off-white head. Very hoppy nose. Flavor has a simply beatific hop/malt balance, perfume and citrus, sweet and hoppy. Palate great, sticky and malty, coats the mouth beautifully. This rocks.

This is a real good "big american" IPA. Dark orange color, big hop aroma, sticky head. FDlavor is big hops, but alittle on the green side and I bet this will be great about 6 months from now. The drafting room near me has several barrels of this and I bet they will be serving it for a while. All the better for me.

Thanks egadzis. Good IPA. It reminds me of Troegs Brewing’s Hapback Amber Ale. Dark orange color, moderate white head. Citrus aroma with a moderate grassyness. Flavor is a pleasant mix of both citrus and grassyness. Flavor is fairly biitter. Dry finish.

Sample at the Philly gathering, July 10. Very pungent and spicy nose, bright metallic amber color. Impossibly smooth palate, synchronized somehow with strong hoppiness throughout, though it’s more herbal and spicy than really bitter, until the walloping finish. Not quite enough malt for me in the body, but well done.

Poured a light amber color out of a growler with aromas of ripe sweet fruits, passion, orange, mango and apricot. Taste is freakin fantastic. Great balance of sweet malts blending nicely with bitter hops. I loved this stuff.

From a growler. Nice pine and citrus hop aroma. Flavor is also dominated by the hops. The malt flavors are a bit weak and the palate was a bit thin. Thanks to egajdzis for the sample.