Mt. Shasta Mountain High IPA

Brewed by Mt. Shasta Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Weed, California USA

12oz bottle-pours a thin light tan head and copper color. Aroma is caramel-medium malt, pine hops. Taste is caramel-medium malt, pine/resin/herbal/orange hops. Medium body. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for sharing.

Bottle courtesy of RiversideAK. Pours copper with a white head. Smells earthy with some tea hints. Tastes peppery with some citrussy touches. Decent.

Any first impressions?
-A creamy head sits on the reddish-amber body.
-Doughy malts and resinous hops serve as the foundation for citrus fruit and dried apricots.
-Toasted malts and orangey, wooden hops are ably balanced.
-A nourishing body surprises with its love handles the teeth can almost sink into.

What if you dig deeper?
-Hop bitterness is rather short.
-Earthy hops and yeast signature agree.
-A brown sugar component fits, but raises an eyebrow.
-A well-made IPA which strays from your regular West Coast examples, but it sadly doesn’t have much to remember it by.

Bottle; no date.

12oz bottle. Sweet butter and maple laced hop nose - conists on pine, dank maple and some moldy, funky homebrew scents, but most they are faint. Slightly grassy and sugary smell. Wet on the palate, watery, low carbonation... lacking a depth of flavor. Mostly a boring attempt at an IPA from an otherwise interesting brewery.

Draft at Craft. Turbid copper orangy with 2-finger off-white head and solid lacing. Nose is resiny, tropical fruity hops, malt, with heavy hops, grapefruit, tangerine, and smooth finish. My first weed ale, and a nice beginning to a hopefully long and mutually prosperous relationship.

Golden orange ipa with a thik creamy off-white head. Sweet honey malt and floral hops, light alcohol notes. Sweetish in mouth with some nutty notes, lighter hopping than the other, but decent. Medium bodied. Run of the mill west coast IPA. Sampled with Mtl crew, April 16 2006.

Lime, cat pee and earthy hops in the hop forward aroma along with tannins and strong underlying malt sweetness. Hazy, orange copper coloured body is topped by a fine bubbled and lasting, off white head that leaves some sudsy lace. Toasted and caramel malts are fairly balanced against moderate bitterness. This certainly doesn’t scream West Coast! Tannins and orange citrus flavours offer counterpoint. Medium body with soft but lively carbonation. Bottle sampled with beerbuzzmontreal, Lubiere, MartinT and Rastacouere.

As Weed Ales IPA at NorCal Brewers Guild at Raley Field. Aroma of pine and malt. Coppery color; lacing white head. Thinnish mouthfeel; starts with piney hop, and malt is present. A nice firm resiny bitter finish. Well balanced.