Grand Teton Sweetgrass India Pale Ale

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

Bottle. Pours a cloudy amber with a large, clingy, foamy, beige head that lasts. Taste is of hops, pine, citrus, caramel and malt. Aroma is much the same. Well balanced and incredibly easy to drink. Has a good bitterness to it. For the price this a pretty good beer that is worth having again.

Sample from November 21, 2008 beer club meeting. Huge frothy head! Smell of BO, actually. Hoppy. Aroma is light and citrusy. Sweet and tame. Easy to drink and good, but disappointing for an IPA.

bottle - Pours hazy copper with a big, fluffy white head. It has a citrus hops aroma and a balanced flavor lightly toasted malt and citrus hops. It’s more mild than most IPAs with a shorter hop finish. Pretty good though.

Bottle. The pour starts out wonderful- nice, thick amber- but thins out as the beer warms. The head is a hefty white that manages to leave a nice latticework of lacing around the edge of the glass. Aroma is peachy grapefruit roll-up with a hint of orange in the background. Very sweet; I s’pose that’s the- drum roll, please- SWEETGRASS! Flavor is a sour, grassy grapefruit slice with hints of pine in the finish. Average mouthfeel, but the flavors are spread nicely. Surprised this one isn’t rated higher.

Bottle.

Pours relatively light. Dominated by somewhat grassy hops, a bit sour/metallic, caramel malt. Pretty laid back to say the least. OK.

Courtesy hopscotch. Light copper color, thin even white head. Grassy strong hop aroma, light toasty malts, very earthy aroma. Very malt forward taste, slight citrus on the back end. Pretty mild tasting DIPA, but still refreshing.

Here’s another beer these guys have tweaked, for the better. The beer is slightly darker than it used to be, pouring a nice copper/light amber. Seems like a bit more caramel malt may have been added. The hop nose is more apparent, too. The aroma is typical of an American style pale made in the pacific NW. Lots of grapefruit and citrus dominate, maybe a slight lemon zest, too. The malt provides enough backbone for the hops, without getting in their way. Fairly bitter, but not over the top like a lot of modern American IPA’s. Yep, could drink a few of these. Me likey.

1 liter bottle courtesy Hopscotch. Nice light copper pour with a thick off white head. Aroma is big grassy and citrus with a nice malt balance. Grapefruit, grassy hop taste with the malts providing a nice backbone. Very good.