John Sleeman Presents India Pale Ale

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: American Pale Ale
Guelph, Canada

Bottle from Super Saver. Wow, All About Beer liked this one a lot more than I did. Gold pour with fizzy white head. Aroma of some hopcitrus and sour apricotty notes. Light palate, with some off metallic flavors joining some hops, and slight pale malts and apricot. Forgettable.

Sampled from bottle. Pours clear copper-gold with a thin, but creamy off-white head. Nice lacing present. Aroma is quite grassy with a hint of sourness. Flavor slightly bitter with peppery, grassy hops. Bitterness lingers on the back sides of the tounge. Medium-bodied with zesty carbonation. Not that great of an IPA, but certainly drinkable.

Pours a light amber color with a thin white head. Aroma is of pine and floral hops with some sweet malt. Flavor was not very good starting off with the sweet malts and finishing with the pine and floral hops. Had a slightly sour bitterness that I would rather not have with an IPA. Not very good at all.

(bottle) Pale gold with some white head. Faint pine and caramel in the aroma. Flavor is slightly sweet malt with only a bit of hops in the finish.

Bottle from <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?U target=blank> DougShoemaker, thanks Doug. Bronze in colour with a thin white dissipating head. The aroma is a bit sweet with some light caramel, faint hops. The flavour is very light on the hops, some caramel sweetness. Light bitter mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes lingering, lightly bitter. It might be a stretch to call this an IPA.

Bottle - a touch of the funky import musky/sourness that many imports have here upon arrival. Malty background. Much the color of Pilsener Urquell. White head that quickly dissipated dispite an overly aggresive pour on my part. Another IPA that I wouldn’t call an IPA. More of a bitter. The hops are very mild and in the finish. That said, I like this beer’s flavor very much.

Bottle. Poured a cooper color with a creamy white head that left light lacing. The aroma was very faint and almost undetectable. What little I found was hoppy. The flavor was more of a caramel and iced-t flavor that an IPA flavor. Light body with a slight watery finish. Now this does not add up the best score as an IPA but this is quiet drinkable. In fact as I sat drinking it I could easily imagine this on a warm summer day working in the yard over any micro out there. It just had that refreshing feeling to it. Maybe it’s the iced-t flavor I got out of it.

12oz bottle pours amber with a pretty nice tan head that stayed some and laced the sides of the glass. Aromas of light caramel malts and not overpowering citrus hops. Flavor is yeast up front then a barrage of hops on the finish. Light on the palate and quite drinkable.