Mt. Shasta Mountain High IPA

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

12oz bottle. Poured a very murky (with a ton of floaties) glowing orange amber. Head was medium in size, off white, and left great lacing. Nose of grapefruit and some malt, flavor was citrus with a nice malt backbone. Finish was slightly bitter.

Bonus from RiversideAK! Thanks Dark amber slightly hazy decent head. Aromas of citrus os fruity esters. Piney hops slightly thin palate with clean bitter finish

12oz bottle: appearance is amber brown with slow fading cream color head, aroma is of pale malt with a hint of hops, flavor was pretty clean tasting but needed more hops, this was a very weak IPA.

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.

Another one thanks to Skyview. Dark copper color with no head. Plenty of pine and citrus aroma. Bitter malt and hop taste. Grass and a little grain.

Fruity, malty, and caramel aroma with slight a citric hop quality. Copper colored. Sweet and toasty malts with a fresh hoppy bitterness. Some piney hop flavor in the finish as well. Worth a try.

12 oz. bottle - thanks to DarkElf for giving this one to me after his recent beer trek up the west coast! Pours a nice copper-amber with a moderate off-white head that diminished mostly. Aroma features caramel and toasty malts, hints of ripe apple, floral and light citrus hops. Flavor is different, as DarkElf points out there’s a distinct roastiness to the malts in this one, also a nuttiness reminiscent of a brown ale, still sweet though with ripe oranges, and a nice biting hop presence with sharp herb and spicy flavors and notes of day-old grapefruit rinds in the finish. Medium body and plentiful carbonation. Not bad - definitely unlike others I’ve had.

Pours a beautiful, brilliantly clear copper hue and is topped by a frothy thick light tan head. The aroma is dominated by the citrus notes and caramel that seems a bit stale, but subtly so. The aroma is actually quite malty, and the citrus hop notes are note quite as dominant as is typical. The beer is lightly sweet up front, but then moves to a malty sweet finish that has notes of caramel and toasted malt. There is a fair amount of hops here, but not as much as I would perhaps like. The hops are nicely bitter in the finish with notes of pine, basil and a bit of citrusy grapefruit as well.