New Holland Mad Hatter Ale

Brewed by New Holland Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Holland, Michigan USA

Bottle from Tiffany’s. Amber colour, off-white head. Aroma of citrus hops, caramel malts. Flavour of caramel malts, citrus. Bitter and dry. Well drinkable.

Amber with a long-lived foamy white head. Aroma is citrus and pine with sweet floral aspects. Taste is unexpectedly dry, and thin with little malt character or bitterness. Closer to an APA than an IPA, and not stellar for either. $2/12oz

Bottle. A nice surprise. Nose is rich hop and tangerine. Taste is creamy with generous amounts of soft citrus tang, hop and cream. A great seasonable brew. I’ll def check out more from these guys soon. cereal,

Bottle. 12 oz. Pours hazy orange with a creamy off-white head. Aroma of dry hops, nectarine, honey, wheat, and hints of pine. Medium, sweet body with a very tangy, lovely mouthfeel. Clean finish. Very good IPA.

Pours a fluffy white head with a nice coppery body. Citrusy hops all over the aroma. Then the taste is pretty fruity... not hop overkill, but there is most definitely a lot of hop bitterness in the finish. And that bitterness lingers for quite some time, but not in a really bad way, like some hop slaughter beers do. Good amounts of carbonation and the body feels good going down the mouth. Anyway, let’s give thanks on this day of thanks for IPAs, ironically enough America’s beer.

Bottle. Poured an amber gold with an off-white head. Aroma was full of floral and citrus hops. Flavor was a bit one note, mainly being grapefruit. There was a slight undertone of floral notes.

a bit full in the palate it is a touch sticky with grapefruit hop that is sweet and bitter with flower and resin. a bit of nut and caramel in the malt this brew finishes sweet and tangy. nice moderate alcohol makes this a hop hitters session. quite sudsy and serviceable indeed.

THOUGHTS: Wow, that was a lot of hops and without any balance I didn’t really enjoy it all that much. The hop flavor was very complex, so it was at least interesting if not entirely enjoyable. For being dry hopped, I thought it was odd that the hop flavor was more intense than the aroma. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a medium orangey amber with a small to average, off-white head that mostly diminished and left good lacing. The aroma was very light, caramel malt; moderate to heavy grapefruit, orange, and mint hops; a little less pine hops; and slightly pissy hops. The initial flavor was lightly sweet and rather bitter; while the finish was very bitter and lightly acidic with a fairly long duration. There was slight caramel malt, citrus )orange lemon, lime, grapefruit) hops, pine and some resin as well, along with the rind of all the citrus fruit mentioned above. The light to medium body that leaned toward medium was a little watery and then rather dry with tingly carbonation and a metallic and dry finish.