Middle Ages ImPaled Ale

Brewed by Middle Ages Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Syracuse, New York USA

This is a very well made IPA. A nice orange color with a medium sized white head complements the hoppy aroma. The taste is well balanced while showcasing the hop, and the finish is mellow. A nice beer and recommended.

NIce malty aroma with not as much hop aroma as I would have expected. Malty body, good bitterness level. Definitely more towards the English IPA side of things. An enjoyable brew.

Clear copper color with a voluminous brown head which recedes with average lacing and has nice retention. Very nutty, malty nose with minimal hopping evident. Flavor is mostly bittering hops with a sweet malt backbone. Floral and piney. I think it’s really dead on for the style, but would probably be better suited as a contemporary APA as the line between them is somewhat murky. It would probably rate higher as an APA. Alcohol is almost completely hidden, even in the aftertaste. Overall, it’s well above average but I would lose the agressive bitterness and get a litttle more complexity. Worth a try for you hop-heads.

Nice big fluffy head. Diminishes slowly to a creamy thin foam with some excellent lacing. Nice hoppy aroma. A little citrus and bread in there also. Flavor is quite well balanced. Nice hunk of hops, more citrus and slightly sour. Finish is dry and bitter like a good IPA should be. I like this beer a lot! Good stuff.

Interesting creamy sweet aroma. I pick out a champaigne kinda of smell. This smell is translated directly into the brew, it is a light European style pale Ale, very light on hops. Is this really a IPA or not, who knws but it tastes really good.

Pours a dark amber color with a nice white head that stays around. Aroma is very malty and sweet maybe hints of vanilla? Taste was very smooth and creamy, very sweet with only a really faint bitter end. Really not the hoppy and bitter IPA im used to living in the N.W. but an excelent brew, very tasty.

I had this on cask at the Old Toad (methinks that’s what it is called)in Rochester, NY over Christmas. This was my first "Real Ale", so it was, for me, a religious experience. When poured it has that lovely lightly carbonated frothy head that real ales have. It stuck around for a good long while, which I enjoy. Looks to be of a dirty golden color. More mirky than pale (due to the sediments...mmmmm... Lovely bouquet. Smelled of pine more than anything else. Taste was well balanced. Certainly one of the maltiest IPA’s I’ve ever had. Slightly sweet as I remember and pinyier as it flattened and rolled out on my tongue. Mouthfeel is excellent, very rich. Many people have commented on how this beer could have used some clarity or seperation in the balance of its flavors. I don’t feel this way at all. This beer I think shuold be enjoyed for how it isn’t clear but presents your palate with something new and undistinguished. Like if you lived somewhere were there weren’t people of another race, and then you moved somewhere full of latinos and african americans. You wouldn’t know what to do but you would learn to enjoy the obscurity and confusion. Right....hmmm. go drink one its good. G-rat

Has a copper color. Intersting aroma of floral hops and caramel. Enjoyable flavor of hops followed with a sweet finish. An OK IPA but I’ve tasted better on numerous occasions.