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MacTarnahans Summer Grifter India Pale Ale


 Percentile 
74
overall
Brewed by Portland Brewing Company (Pyramid)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

Portland, Oregon USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
433.37/5.03.3/5.0Summer6.2%44.5Shaker, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
MacTarnahan’s Summer Grifter™ is a limited edition IPA for the summer whose cunning malt taste and hefty hop aroma will steal your attention and disappear in a wink! It’s unique and thought provoking packaging depicts a mysterious character known by our brewers simply as "Clem", and who’s haunting stare is just intriguing enough to make you want to know a little more. Summer Grifter IPA, is a deliciously wayward ale, lurking wherever thirsts gather! Malts: 2 Row, Munich and Caramel Malts -- Hops: Chinook, CTZ,Cascade and Centenial. IBU: 54 -- ABV: 6.2%
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 Ibrew2or3 (2714), Safety Harbor, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Oct 30, 2009  
Pours dead clear gold with copper core and thin white head. The aroma is nice and chewy with sweet citrus and caramel as well as full up malts. The taste begins with a pulse of citrus hop bitterness and then moving into sweeter yummy citrus hop flavor notes as well as some sweet and caramel like malts. Very tasty IPA with a solid hop presence.


 Sparky27 (1559), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Oct 14, 2009  
12oz bottle courtesy of riversideAK. Pours clear medium amber with a half finger white head. The nose is caramel, pine and light citrus. The taste is toffee, sweet citrus, caramel malt and light pine in the finish. Given the name, I have to assume this has a few months on it, but it’s still a decent IPA. Thank for sending it Alex!


 BückDich (4785), McCall, Idaho, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/102/513/20
Oct 8, 2009  
Bottle: Pours a light amber color with a little white head. The nose is light and hop forward with a touch of malt and husk. The flavor has a nice little piney hop note along with some toasty light caramel and berry notes in the tail. Clean finish and a grassy tail. Not too bad, not something I’d reach for again though.


 markwise (1132), 15 Minutes from Kuhnhenn in, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Oct 5, 2009  
Thanks to the Tampa Crew for sharing. Pours amber and orange with a white head. Nose is pine, light malt, some honey, and prickly sap. Flavor is pine, sap, malt, more malt, and some floral hops. Sticky and hoppy with a medium body. Nice beer.


 riversideAK (2648), Shoreline, Washington, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/513/20
Sep 30, 2009  
Ticker sized sample shared by my dad. Nose is somewhat citrusy and floral with light malty undertones. Pours amber with thin light foam. Bright crisp hops, light malty sweetness. Mostly citrus and floral hops. Went well with food. Very drinkable, nothing special, but it works.


 TampaBrew (726), Tampa, Florida, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Sep 23, 2009  
Pours a deep orange/amber. Nose is dank, citrus and pine hops, sweet caramel. Flavor is Sweet malt balanced by a medley of sticky hops. Resinous pine and citrus. Some flowery notes and slight yeasty in character. Damn fine IPA!


 troopie (848), USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/513/20
Sep 22, 2009  
Poured Orange with thick foamy white head. Aroma of citrus, hop, resin. Moderate flavour with orangey and tangeriney notes. Lingering citrusy finish.
Earlier Rating: 4/22/2009 Total Score: 3.4
Bottle. Poured orange yellow with thick lasting off white head. Strong aroma of citrus and flowers. Light flavour for such an aroma, Citrus and hop notes. Light hop finish.


 Ughsmash (3978), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 22, 2009  
Bottled. Poured clear, light coppery-amber with a short cap of white head. The aroma picked up juicy grapefruit meat and sweet caramel with more citrus and some pine around.. sweet overall and rather candy-like. The flavor found caramel, grapefruit meat, and redder fruits on the sweet core with earthy and citrusy bitterness around.. finished with a kiss of sweetness and resiny pine bitterness. Light-medium bodied and increasingly bitter as it moved through the mouth.. not a bad feel.. just alright overall.



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