Grand Teton Sweetgrass India Pale Ale

Brewed by Grand Teton Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Victor, Idaho USA

Bottle: Courtesy of Indiana_Red via trade. Aroma is very citrusy with a touch of sweet malt. Pours a transparent amber with a small white head. Lots of citrus and sweet grapefruit throughout. Grapefruit hops are present, but not as strong as most. Balance falls a tad more on the malt and sweet side, but very nicely done. Slightly APA-ish. Pleasantly suprised by this one. During the summer this could definitely be a "go to" beer.

Rusty orange. Decent mouthfeel -- lightish, but chewy and solid; pretty good carb. level. Sweet malts laden with cookie dough, powdery cocoa, and lingering dark chocolate. Aromatic hops, with notes of flower petals, sugared grapefruit, and wholesome earth. Nice bitterness level -- just enough to cleave off the loitering sweetness. Overall, I thought it was nicely balanced, well made, and tasty. A solid IPA.

Rich amber color with a medium white head. Aroma is sweet and fruity. Flavor starts sweet fruit (peach) a slight metallic taste finishing grassy and bitter with a dry orange rind aftertaste. Smooth, medium palate. Not bad, not great. Idaho? Hum.

Tap. I was psyched to have an Idaho beer, so it didn’t really matter how this tasted. A golden color with a quickly laced off-white head. An earthy aroma with a big malt base and a dull grassy hop aroma. A nice bitter finish with a buscuity malt flavor.

Pours a clear med. amber with a small head. Aroma is grassy , and earthy. Some notes of grapefruit, but their minor. Flavor is heavily sweet, malty cookiness. Some citrus but mild, and diacetyl is heavy. Some oxidized flavors. Med bitterness.

This beer came to me in my beer club. I am unfamiliar with the brewer. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright copper color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is sweet grapefruity hops. The flavor is very sweet with moderate fruity hops. The hops are fairly subdued considering the aroma. The balance is a bit too far on the sweet malty side though.

(12 oz bottle: BevMo in La Jolla, CA) I bought sixers of various Grand Teton beers, and after sampling some of the other offerings from this brewery, I was expecting this IPA to be pretty lame as well. Happily, this is a pretty nice IPA, pleasant enough, quite flavorful, but not in your face. Grassy, fruity, fairly sweet, and with a fairly bready malt backbone, the moderately bitter hops is in reasonable, though not perfect balance. The hops shows mostly notes of mild grapefruit in the long-lasting finish. Medium in body with a fairly crisp mouthfeel. Aromas of light malt, bready, grassy, and a bit musty, but lacking sufficient hops for total balance. Dark golden color with some light haziness. Off-white head is pretty average all around, fading to a thin, bubbly layer, but leaving a "lunar landscape" patchwork of lace. Certainly not in the top tier, but decent enough to buy a sixer for those times when you just want to consume a decent beer.

Golden brown with a thin white head. Doughy malts, citrus and some piney hops in the nose. Moderate bitterness, some grass, a little earth, doughy malts balancing things out. Solid IPA.