Lost Coast Indica India Pale Ale

Brewed by Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Eureka, California USA

22 oz bottle via Mys Swap 3.0 (Thanks Hellbilly!). This one is a very nice semi-hazy orange/copper with a large beige head. Nose is grapefruit, pine, and a bit of spice....sort of like a cross between Cascade, Centennial and chinook/Simcoe hops. Tastes just like it smells, with some orange flavor comig through as well, and a good strong malt backbone, with a lot of crystal malt to hold the hops in check...makes it a very balanced bittersweet finish and aftertaste. Carbonation is medium, body is medium/full. This is a wonderful world class IPA....oh and it looks like from the description, i got at least 1 of the 3 hops right, lol... 8/5/09 rerate-orig rating was 9/4/9/4/18- 22oz bottle via HAgen. Pours a hazy orange with a large off-white head. Nose is delightful centennial hops..love me some Centennials. Taste starts with some sweetness, then quickly slams you with the bittering Columbus hops...a mouthful of graepfruit, then comes the orangepeal/pine chewy bliss from the Centennials, and a little earthiness from the willamette hops. Finish is a bit drier than i like and a tad astringent, but overall is quite delicious, Body is medium. Carbonation is moderate. Very nice for $3.19 a bomber!!

Pours a cloudy orangey/copper color with beautiful white head. Beer is unfiltered and has lots sediment and floaties. Has a nice citrus and floral aroma. Flavor is also very hoppy with hints of citrus, floral, and pine. Mouthfeel is nice and left decent lacing. A good beer I really enjoyed.

On-tap. Pours a slightly yellow orange color with a nice thick, frothy head that laces the glass. Smells of hops mostly, citrusy and grassy, with some strong malts in the background. This is the maltiest tasting IPA I have ever had. It’s got both, malt and hops but the hops and the malts are kind of a 50/50 on the palate. Still enough hop bitterness though for this to be a nice IPA. Thin mouthfeel, with a bit of a metallic carbonation to it. Pretty good brew. It won’t knock you off your stool with it’s hoppiness, but its good.

Bottle. Spicy fruit aroma. Cloudy dark copper colour. Small tan head. Good mouthfeel. Very nice hop flavour, spicy and fruity. Also creamy with a hint of apricot. Good, cleansing bitterness. Quite good beer and very well-balanced.

Definitely not a hop bomb by any stretch. Malty, sweet cotton candy flavour with an all citrus hop profile. Very sweet cloying finish. Cheers!

The floaters in this beer creep me out. They seem more prevalent in this one than any other I’ve ever seen. Doesn’t seem to affect the taste but it does affect the appearance score. This would actually be a beautiful beer if it weren’t for them. Looks like glowing honey when you hold it up to the sunlight. Smells very balanced with both the hops and malts shining through. Extremely balanced taste to this one as well. Nice and hoppy but still has a good malt presence. Extremely drinkable beer. Definite session beer if you can get over the sediment.

cloudy amber body, some decent head, kinda grassy with some pine on the nose but not much. flavor is malt with some pine hop and a tiny bit of citrus but well balanced and highly drinkable.

From a 12oz. bottle purchased at Johns Marketplace--Poured a hazy copper-orange-amber with a medium to big creamy whitish head. Nice floral citrus hop nose and flavor. Great balance of crisp malts/ Very very nice IPA.