Fort Collins Rocky Mountain IPA

Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm. Pours out in a clear amber colour with a rocky off-white foam. Spicy, orangey and resiny hop-aroma with touches of nectarines and passion fruit. medium-bodied with notes of spicy and resinous hops with strong notes of orange-peels and cedar wood. A bit flat mouthfeel. Long bitter finish of orangey, leafy and spicy hops. Quite a different US IPA, leaning more to an amped up UK IPA.

Pours deep orange, white head.Floral hop aroma. Flavor is grapefruit, some malt, finishes dry. Pretty good.

12 oz bottle from Lukas Liquor Superstore. Pours a very clear golden/orangish/copperish with a thick, very creamy and foamy off-white head that lingers for quite awhile. Really a good looking beer. Very lacy. Smells of floral hops, grapefruit, caramel malts, and some woody notes of pine. Not overly complex, but a pleasant aroma. Very quick malty taste, pretty clean at first with a very dry and sticky finish. Medium bodied. Intense hoppy flavor with some citrus notes and pine sticking out the most. Long bitter aftertaste that kind of makes me pucker (not sour, though) and thirsy. Leaves my mouth really dry. Overall, not a very balanced IPA. To me, there is no real malt taste, the intense bitterness just drops in there too quickly. The flavor isn’t bad at all, its the feeling it leaves in my mouth and the weird balance that bothers me. Not a terrible IPA, just not worth getting again.

12 oz bottle courtesy BeerandBlues2. Pours a deep copper with a thick off white head. Nice citrus and floral hop aroma with some nice malt in there to balance it out. Big chewy citrus hop taste, very nice. Leaves a pleasant bitter hop aftertaste, nice.

Golden copper color, smallish head, little lace. The aroma is of sweet malt and overripe fruit(?). No, the aroma was teabag. The flavor in this one is grapefruit rinds and teabags soaked in caramel juice. Teabag becomes stronger and stronger as it warmed. I liked it.