 HonkeyBra (1353), Lemont, Illinois, USA
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 10/20 |
Mar 28, 2009 Orange pour with white head with some staying power. Light, though surprisingly hoppy aroma. When I saw surprisingly hoppy, I mean for new belgium. Flavor is wet cardboard, soem light hoppiness, and a bit of cream in the after taste. Mouthfeel has a lot of carbonation. FInish is almost like a liquid that was frozen, then melted. Definitely the hoppiest beer new belgium has every made, but that really doesn’t mean anything. A good start, i guess.
EHopper (348), Minnesota, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Mar 28, 2009 I have run into a series of these drinkable, but unremarkable pale ales lately. Maybe I need to give it a rest and drink something else for a while.
SuperDave70 (1157), Beautiful Sunny Mesa, Arizona, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Mar 27, 2009 Sampled at the 2009 AZ Strong Beer Fest on February 28th. This mighty arrow wasn’t quite so mighty. A good, middle of the road APA, but not much more.
Indra (2036), Prairie Village, Kansas, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 26, 2009 12oz. bottle. Freshly hopped aroma, floral, citric and piney with notes of grapefruit and honey-baked bread. Clear light-medium golden amber color with a fine, fading head and thin strands of lace. Flavor is balanced a bit more towards the hoppy side, with plenty of citrus, pine and spice, blended with lightly sweet, toasty, biscuity malts, and finishing fairly dry and peppery. Well-carbonated and lightly oily mouthfeel, body is medium. Seemingly uncharted territory for this brewer, and possibly the hoppiest beer they make.
jumpjet2k (161), Austin, Texas, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 25, 2009 Bottle. Pours amber-ish gold with a thin white head. Aroma of hops, nothing particularly exciting. Flavor is sweet, malty, and fairly lightly hopped for an APA. Not bad. Would be pretty refreshing on a hot day.
sebletitje (1937), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 25, 2009 courtesy of vasdef42.
Props to New Belgium. Finally an APA that stands out.
Pours a golden/copper with thick off-white head.
Aroma of herbal/grassy hops.and some citrus notes.
Taste, floral hoppy with thick mouthfeel light sweet honey malts and spices. Some pale malts and tittering fruit notes of grapefruit and some citrus. Overall it remains rather sweet and extremely drinkable.
This is one fine beer, well balanced between the hops and the sweetness.
brokephibroke (143), Mead, Colorado, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 24, 2009 To me pale ales are a nothing more than compromises on styles for the unaware masses. This is a good pale ale. The choice of hops brings them to the front of this balanced, drinkable effort.
lipscomb216 (78), USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 2/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 24, 2009 Quite a nice effort from the brewers of a quality product. I’m a hop-head, so I appreciate the effort. I am not your ordinary hophead, in that when I feel like I need a burst of hops I run to my kegerator and take a pull of a batch of my home brewed IIPA. But this one will fit the bill when I want something a little milder. It has a great hop aroma and flave, it does a good job of fulfilling my current hop desires, and I dream of its thin, hoppy, piney and citrusy aroma and flavor when I am satisfying corporate America from 9-5, when my homebrew is not at the forefront of my current state of mind.
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