Marin I.P.A. India Pale Ale

Brewed by Marin Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Larkspur, California USA

Nice IPA. Pours an amber color with a nice head. Aroma was citrusy and hoppy. Flavor was nice and hoppy as well as citrusy. Nice and bitter just how I like it. Although it wasn’t anything too special, it wasn’t bad at all, good stuff.

From 22 oz bottle, poured a cloudy, red to copper color with a thck and foamy tan head. Nose is dominated by floral and citrus hops, with grapefruit the most distinctive. Flavor is of caramel malts and fruits with plenty of hops. Medium body and good mouthfeel. Fine finish. Great IPA.

Pours cloudy amber color. aroma of pine a citrus. Nice hop bitterness with a smooth malty finish. A touch of sweetness but balanced in pretty well. Slight alcohol warmth but not overpowering. Pretty nice brew.

Slightly cloudy dark amber color with a pale tan head. Clear, vibrant fresh hop aroma with citrus, pine, and earth. Light--not sweet--malt background and a yeast edge also present. Clean, crisp hops bitterness with nice hops flavors of pinewood with a pleasant grainy--not caramel--malt profile with a lot of dimension. Good built-in alcohol presence. Considering all of the grainy malt flavors the body is quite light--great hops crispness that lingers into the finish.

Pours a slightly hazy copper orange with a large, airy, rocky off-white head that leaves the glass coated with spotty wisps of sticky foam. Aroma boasts lemons and pine resin with a touch of peanut brittle toffee. The first flavor to hit the tongue is one of sweet earthy caramel quickly coming into balance with a grapefruity hoppy bitterness before a drier, clean, bittersweet finish that hides the alcohol well. A nice IPA, thanks tever!

Cloudy amber with huge overflowing head. Sharp c hop aroma and taste. Backed by a bitter sweet malt flavor. Smooth and almost creamy....very solid IPA.

Great piney, citrusy aroma. Even some tropical fruit. Hazy apricot color with a light tan head. Piney start, a burst of citrus sweetness, and a grapefruit bitterness. Amazingly a bit of malt pops up at the very end. Substantial mouthfeel and a very smooth impression. Fantastic.

Ambient copper orange in color with a fuzzy khaki orange head holding on top. Bright, vibrant aroma reels with clementines, apricots and freesia sheets, sweetly and forcefully caressing the nose. Buttery mango drops make it on the backdoor with some lime and papaya cooler tendencies up the nose. Flavor isn’t as dynamic as the aroma would indicate, but it’s still a solid foot forward. Graham waffle cones receive a citric submission from orange dream custard. Effervescence is up there, supporting a pulpy oat flake feel and flavor. If sucked in the appropriate manner, at times it’s like an alcoholic orange Crush. Marmalade on rye carries the banner later in the game, imparting a balanced quotient that’s starved of half its original flavor intensions. Smoothed out orange rind dulls the alcohol pain. Bitterness hums when the tongue is forcefully held to the roof of the mouth, and “triple hopped” promises could simply be a marketing phrase with this rendition, rather than delivering upon the sheer adrenaline that the hop could realize when added at the opportune time. Orange blossoms and rose hips frequent rind shavings in the end with subliminal black licorice lining the aftertaste. Thanks for the bomber, tpkenned!