Eel River Certified Organic India Pale Ale

Brewed by Eel River Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Fortuna, California USA

The aroma has nice caramel and lightly toasted malt with pine and citrus hops. The appearance is deep amber with s slight haze and a larger than average head. The flavor is full of discord. On the one hand we have great caramel malt and on the other soap and chemical bitterness (I was expecting citrus or pine). The palate is thin but a little sticky; long bitter finish. This one falls a few tenths of a point in my overall rating because the bitter element is astringent and soapy.

dark yellow pour thick white head some lacing. Well hopped aroma almost oily by scent floral and citrus w/ a small carmel back. Lighly oily well coated smooth and lightly creamy palate. Flavor is light and easy to drink no real lingering bitterness mostly carmel balanced against a floral hop and a touch of grass. Nice.

Orangey brown, foamy head. Bready, toasty flavor, with a smokey edge. Brown sugar malt notes and a vegetal, green hop finish.

12oz bottle poured a cloudy amber color with orange highlights and a nice sized off white head. Had a big malt nose with some floral citrus hops. The taste leaned more toward the malt than the hops with a good amount of alcohol in the finish.

Thanks Dark Elf. Pours with an orange body topped by a thick head with some lacing. It’s bitter yet sligthly sweet with a grassy, hay like hop note and a slightly piney finish. Seams to be lacking something. Medium bodied, slightly dry and a touch warming.

(12 oz bottle: BevMo in La Jolla, CA) For an IPA, the complete lack of hop aromatics seems totally bizarre, and the aromas of fresh grain and bread have a borderline stinky quality to them. If this were a blind tasting, going by how this beer smells, I would never guess it to be an IPA, and I’m not expecting to like how it tastes either. But the flavor is closer to IPA form, overlaying mildly sweet, grainy and very toasty malts with moderate amounts of floral and citrusy hops. Floral at first, the citrusy and bitter qualities don’t really become evident until late in the finish. It is medium-bodied, fairly dry on the palate, and has a pleasing, round mouthfeel. Light amber in color and fairly hazy. The magnificent, off-white head pours to an average size, but shows superb retention, maintaining a quarter-inch layer on top of the beer, and leaving many large patches of lace on the glass. Overall, it’s a very nice, drinkable beer, good balance and an enjoyable, toasty flavor, and even shows a little spunk at 7% ABV. Who says organic beers can’t be good!

not a strong aroma...hint of pine and citrus....the taste needs work...very earthy overtones...almost like tatse like dirt...not that i eat dirt....disapointed about the flavor...alcohol is present but not too bad. good palate all n all.

Copper colored beer that pours with a fairly virulent white head and monstrously thick lacing. Aroma is very sweet with well developed caramel, fruits and malts. This has been sitting in my cellar for about a year so it seems to have aged well. Flavor is mildly sticky with sweet hops and malts that burst on the tongue. Mild carbonation, prickling with slighy dryness yet still incredibly malty. Definitely some orange and caramel mixing mid-sip..sticky, sweet and slightly bitter. Confusing, more like an APA but a fun taste. How the hell did they cram 7% in here..no alcohol presence whatsoever.