Drafting Room 10th Anniversary Ale

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

(bottled from a growler courtesy of egajdzis) Healthy beige foam atop a clear amber body, leaves nice lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, strong floral, plus orange and grapefruit, caramel. Taste is dominated by the hops -- pine, orange, grapefruit, floral, even some spicy hops, but backed by caramel and medium sweetness. Creamy medium-full body. An excellent beer, thanks for sharing Eric! And Troegs/Drafting Room: start bottling -- if you sell it, they will come!

On Tap. Poured a medium to dark orange color with a large off white head. Citrus aroma with some pine. Sweet. Honey, piney and orange tastes.

(Cask Conditioned, Drafting Room, Exton, PA) Pours a cloudy amber-brown with a small beige head. Aroma of orange and pine. Nice balance of a variety of hops. Very smooth palate. One of the better IPAs I have sampled.

Pours dark straw with nice head and lace. Aroma of big hops, malt, citrus. Tastes very hoppy, with malt, citrus, and slight fruit, spicy, and piney hints at the finish. Very complex, well balanced, and drinkable. I stack this one right up there with the Sly Fox IPAs as local standouts this year, and among the best IPAs I’ve ever had.

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 copper color with a small off white head and beautiful lacing on the glass. Piney aroma of citrus hops. Sweet and spicy taste, followed by a sweet citrus fruit malt taste. Nice bitter hop finish. Very nice creamy mouthfeel, although the brewer had told me this should have less body than the Nugget Nectar. There was alot of good stuff going on here. The other hops were Simcoe, Amarillo, and Nugget.

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.

Draught: Smelled sweet, floral, and hoppy. Perhaps a little grapefruit? Nice golden/orange color, with a lasting creamy white head and a good lacing. Tasted floral, bitter, and hoppy. Possibly some citrus, again, grapefruit? Strong, memorable flavor. Very easy to drink. Not as dry a finish as I might like. Overall, congrats to Patrick & the rest of the Drafting Room crew on a great brew. I only hope it reappears.