Marin I.P.A. India Pale Ale

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

smells of hops with grapefruit, pears, and apple. Tastes of grapefruit, honey, and caramel. Nice, fizzy mouthfeel. A solid CA IPA.

Lots of head on the beer. Sticks to the side of the glass. Nice appearance and smell. Good taste, tad bit of aftertaste which is not best of IPA’s I’ve tasted. But great going down, full flavor. I think I am ipartial to IPA’s though becasue they seem to be my favorite beer.

Cloudy amber body with a medium off-white head - lasting, lace. The nose is moderately sweet with caramel, grapefruit and honey. The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter with lots of crystal malt - caramel and tea, grapefruit and tangerine. Medium body is slightly thin with moderate carbonation.

Served @ the brewery. Nice IPA nose with a hazy copper color and thick lasting head. Served cool, but not quite room temprtature. Great, mellow hoppy flavor and exceptionally smooth. Definitely a British IPA style.
Earlier Rating: 8/19/2007 Total Score: 3.7
On tap at the brewery. Very nice IPA, tasted just like it should with lots of hops, a little malt, and a bitter, clean finish.

Pours a clear copper orange with a small off-white head leaving good lacing. There is a ton of suspended particulates. The aroma has a sharp grapefruit citrus character with notes of peach, and phenolithic resin. The malt presence is almost absent from the nose. The flavour is dominated by fresh, citric, resiny and grassy hops with a mild biscuity caramel malt backbone. The flavour is more muted than I would expect from the nose. The palate could be less watery and the palate duration is short. Aftertaste is of resin and pine.

Pours a golden amber colour with full frozen particulates and small off white head. Nose of grapefruit hops, resin, dried fruits and sweet malts. Initial taste of grapefruit hops touched with some sweet syrupy malts. Resin lingers in the background. FInishing with bitter hops and light caramel malts. Light to medium body. Good lacing of the glass and head retention. Palate duration is good. Thanks to Irishboy for this one!!

This beer pours a cloudy orange amber color with a decent head and nice spotted laceing. It also has some suspended particulate matter in it which seems to be very dence since it dosent move that easy as you shake the glass. The aroma is very peachy and hoppy with some grapefruit smells as well, also there is some sweet toffe and carmel malt. As you drink it there is an bitter sweet initial flavor with that peach flavor on the tip of your tounge. the palate duration is moderate and has a carmel finish with a hoppy coating.

22oz, HUGE and i mean HUGE head, very weird, other than that typical West coast IPA, nothing spectacular a little more malt than some.. but nothing weird.. a good beer.