Fiddlers Green India Pale Ale

Brewed by Matt Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Utica, New York USA

bottle from total wine & more tampa. Clear light golden with a medium head. grapefruit aroma. heavy citrus, grassy taste. taste is off putting and astringent. thin texture.

Bottle from Total Wine in Naples, FL. Pours a translucent pale orange amber with a sudsy, retentive white head. Faint aroma of pale malts and floral hops. Medium to light bodied with a macro texture and mouthfeel. Initial flavor of pale malts (caramel, pilsner) that quickly transitions to a muted bitterness that has notes of grass and citrus. Finish is semi-dry and soapy- and is distracting. This has potential, but has this nagging cheapness to it.

This dark gold pour smells like sweet malt, then hops. Subtle notes of caramel maybe. It is very bitter in taste but this is followed by malt and then back to hops. It leaves a bad bitter taste in your mouth.

smelled promising like of the apricots that could possibly signal a decent IPA. but alas, denied. turbid amber. minimal head. not much flavor too it. it takes like seltzer water with a splash of hops. i’ll pass

Bottle brought back from GSO. Clear burnt orange color with a frothy white head. Not expecting a lot from this one. Grassy, hoppy aroma. Lemon and citrus in the flavor. A little thin and quick to finish. Would like a little more hop character in there too. But the hops you get are nice.

Bottle... Clear golden ale with a mid-sized, wispy, white head. Great retention. Spicy, hoppy aroma presents notes of toffee, pine and grapefruit. Flavor of moderately sweet toffee and medium bitter hops. Leans just a hair on the bitter side of balance. Medium-bodied with a skim-milk mouthfeel and mild carbonation. Leaves a bitter taste and very delicate, mineral oil-like coating on my tongue. It’s not a mind bending beer, but seems a bit underrated to me.

Hoppy aroma. White head that dissipates quickly. I must say one of the worst IPA’s I have ever tasted. It does have some hoppy bitterness and lemon to it but has a HORRID, skunky end to it. I wonder if this was a bad batch.

Bottle. Pours an amber with an orangish hue. 1 cm thick white head that falls quickly. Light floral hop aroma, kind of soapy. Pretty thin in the hop department, and the finish is a bit soapy. Not hoppy enough.