Grays IPA

Brewed by Grays Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Draft at the Tied House. Hazy orange-tan color. Solid bitterness, with a touch more depth than other Gray’s beers I sampled. Solid grapefruit citrus flavor on top of a basic sweet malt backbone. A touch more bitterness and dryness than a typical US version.

As the description says, dead on. I really enjoy this one, and hope they make it one of their regular taps at the Tied House.

On draught at the Tied House in Verona, Wisconsin. Pours a clear amber brew with a fast dissolving off-white head that dissipates nearly clean. Aroma of caramel malt, some citrus zest, a touch of pine and dry earth herbs. Taste is medium bodied, some carbonation with flavors of mild caramel malt, a touch of citrus zest and lemon. Finish is semi-dry with a hint of citrus and some light bread malt. This beer is more close to an American Pale Ale than an IPA.

More of a summer time refresher then a champion IPA. Worked well with spicy BBQ. I was most dissapointed with the aroma it just was bland. If you want to get the most complexaty out of this beer I would let it get closer to room temp.

Bottle. Copper pour with resiny hoppy, malty, and tropical fruity citric aroma. Medium palate, with some hops an caramel bready malt notes, and a piney, tangeriney finish.

(12oz bottle, thanks Barry) Small beige head topping a lightly hazed amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, floral, light pine, orange. Taste is medium sweet, pine, caramel, some grapefruit, lemon. Light-medium body with light resin. No one will mistake this for a West Coast IPA -- while I agree with others that this seems more an APA than an IPA, the bitterness does pick up a notch once the beer warms.

12 oz bottle purchased at the Woodmans in Beloit WI. Served between cellar & fridge temps from a 12 oz Michelob glass, Michelob baby! Pours a light clear copper, moderate fizzy off-white head, quick-dissipating, with a touch of fine lacing...mildy piney hoppy nose, touch of lemon, some wood, and some dry biscuity malt...body moderately sweet, quite malty, full, with hops moderate to strong only at midpalate one...barely present at the front, and not really all that bitter at the finish, though a nice dusty dry acidity does settle in late...very quaffable, nothing spectacular and closer I think to an APA, it’s a solid middle-of-the-road effort.

bottle-purchased at corral liquors in granite city, IL. this beer poured dark orange, almost red with a nice sudsy off-white head that had great retention. earthy, lightly piney, pineapple, grapefruit that was mostly earthy and leafy. some nice piney/resiny flavors come out but this is not overly bitter-some nice toasty malts back this up. The body was sligthly light, but i looked at this beer from a non-ipa viewpoint, more a hoppy amber/red ale than an ipa if you ask me. some nice resin on the finish with some leafy hop notes. For what this is, its a tasty beer.