Knights Head Pale Ale

Brewed by Lion Brewery, Inc.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA

Name: Anniversary IPA
Date: 03/28/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

cloudy burnt orange, wispy beige head, drips of lace, big sweet caramel, pine, and grapefruit aroma, the body gets stickier and stickier, lots of sticky sweet flavor with essence of tangerine and pine, light bitterness stays out of the way but provides for a soft bitter finish, grapefruit bursts forth about halfway through,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

12oz bottle. Small beige head atop lightly hazed amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, cantaloupe, pineapple, some orange, light pepper. Taste is medium sweet, herbal/pine, some alcohol. Medium body, light acidity.

12oz bottle thanks to egajdzis. Poured a dark orange color with a larger sized off white head. Aromas of flowers, pine, oranges and some caramel. Tastes of oranges, caramel, citrus and toasted malts. Has a decent balance to it. Alcohol content well hidden.

Bottle courtesy of kramer17801: Pours a clear dark copper orange with a nicely-lacing,wispy white head. Fresh floral grapefruity hoppy aroma has some toasted toffee and hints of strawberry. Body starts with a lightly sticky and sweet caramel maltiness well balanced with lots of fresh green bittering and flavor hops. A nice IPA.

Short-lived, yellow tinted head; clear orange-foxy beer that pours a bit oily, viscous. Grapey hopsnose, ending cake-y and spicey, with just a bit of resin or pine, and orange marmalade. Starts off as a rather citrussy-hoppy IPA, but immediately taken over by a strange sweetish flavour - which cannot be but the corn syrup. Darn stupid addition, if I’m asked. Main problem is that it turns the bitterness metallic in character. Faint (milk)chocolate in the finish. Medium bodied, a viscosity reflected from the pouring. Lots of orange in the aftertaste. Not a bad IPA, but compared to what is available elsewhere... All the same, interesting bottle, Mike, thanks!

Pours coppery with a creamy white head. Smells hoppy with citrus, yogurt and some perfumey notes. Tastes of lemons and oranges with a nice malt backbone. Finishes metallic.

Bottle: Tawny amber color, sticky thick head, nice lacing. Nose of lemon and spruce. The flavor is swampy, a bit off and stingy in the finish. Odd hopping.

Bottle from Epps, Limerick, PA. This one poured dark straw/subdued copper with an off-white retentive head. Nice aromas of hops, citrus, some fruit and black pepper. The flavor was hoppy and fruity up front, with malt and spicy florals arriving at mid-palate. Medium body, but it does seem to lose heft and complexity at the finish. Still, not bad at any rate.