Founders Harvest Ale

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is fresh, citrusy, slightly piny, floral hops. Flavor is a great mixture of citrus fruit, grapefruit, pine resin, and hints of spice. Very good.

Bottle in Cleveland. Pours orange with a white head, some rentation and lacing. Aroma is lots of citrus and fruit, taste is very hoppy with some citrus notes.

Pours a golden orange with a decent white head that fades rather quickly into a thin layer of foam. Plenty of lacing left in the wake of this one. Smells like an English ipa to me. Sweet and fruity aroma of orange, grapefruit, pineapple, and lemon, with some caramel, and a hint of floral hops. The flavor is a little on the sweet side, but full of citrus and tropical fruit, and fresh hops. Slightly woody and herbal. The finish is bitter, but not as much as I had expected. Dense body with mellow carbonation.

Creamy gold, small ring of a sticky white head. Sweet ripe pineapple nectar aroma. Leafy full goodness. After all this time, the brightness has faded some. Light bodied, tastes of pressed hop juice. Pale malt allows the green plump hop character to be lifted up and presented as a gift. Thanks.

Bottle @ The Headkeeper. Pours a hazy yellow, nice frothy, slightly off-white head, some lacing. Aroma is subdued hops. Hops dominate the flavor profile with some touches of peach and lemon showing through on the backend, touch of yeast. Finish is bitter and slightly sweet.

Bottle courtesy of bret27. Pours golden with an orange tinge and a wet, frothy, white head. Aroma is bright and tropical, with very mild cattiness (Simcoe?), oranges, and herbs. Flavor really isn’t as hoppy as the aroma, some citrus notes but not much else. There is still a medium bitterness that lingers awhile. Body is light but not thin, carbonation is soft, finish is dry.

12oz bottle shared by bret27. Clear light gold color with a white head. The aroma is all leafy, pungent, and fruity hops with apricot and orange, barely any malt, and just a faint cheesy note bringing down what would be a very nice profile otherwise. The flavor is very "west coast" in profile, with almost no malt getting in the way of a lot of fruity and spicy hops. Tastes like a lot of simcoe, without a high level of bitterness. Light in body, with an almost oily feel and medium carbonation. Nice dryness with lots of hop flavor, but there is just something in the aroma that keeps me from really loving it.

Poured from 12 oz. Light golden-yellow in color with small to medium off white head. Wonderful nose of hops; citrus, pine, a little floral, a bit malty. taste was excellent, bitter, but not too, sweet, nicely balanced, medium bodied that left a nice aftertaste.