North Fork IPA

Brewed by North Fork Brewery/Pizza/Beer Shrine
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Deming, Washington USA

Name: India Pale Ale
Date: September 05, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: muddy burnt orange, fine off white head, drippy lace
Aroma: light sweet crystal malt aroma and citrus hops
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, nice citrus hops, light bitterness, hint of buttery sweetness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

English malt, a hint of caramel, citrus, and floral hops in the nose. Amber golden pour with a thin head. The flavor is mostly malty with english malts, caramel, and some grain followed by a light citrus hop note. Not too hoppy, but somewhat quenching with a soft citrus profile.

good color, not much aroma, a little bit gamey or homebrewy, tastes a little off, not very hoppy at all

Frothy off-white head on dark yellow body with a green tinge. Hops tend to citrus but not harshly, some green flavor and hints of caramel.

Draft at the brewpub. Pours hazy warm amber with a thin white head. Lightly citrus-influenced nose. Light body and carbonation. Some fruit and citrus in the taste, but it’s not long before the bitter-woody finish catches up with it.

Pacific Northwest Vacation 2007

8/19/2007: The color of North Fork IPA is deep gold (more like a mixture of yellow and brown) and it is cloudy in appearance. There is a thin white veil on the top surface as well. The "creamy" aroma has pale malts, ginger?, and some herbal hoppiness. This beer has a nice hop profile that produces flavors of light citrus and floral notes. The bitterness is pretty mild which makes this beer taste and seem more like a pale ale than a true IPA.

Draught sample at The North Fork Brewery - Pizzeria - Beer Shrine in Deming, Washington. Rating #15 for this beer...

Draught at the brewpub. Cloudy amber. Grapefruit aroma. Sweet with clean, but firm mouthfeel. Plenty of juicy hops. The hops are given a lot of space, but some syrup tries to cloy it up. Still a pretty decent IPA.

Draught pint at Redbones, 12/16/05. Pours a very hazy, transluscent, copper-lemon skin-tangerine orange, moderate amount of white head receding to cover, slowly and leaving spotty lacing in its wake. The aroma smells immediately of yeasty b-vitamins, light plastic/solvent-like notes (more yeast bi-products), mixed in with dry white-grapefruit, lemons and a touch of pale malt sugars. Reminds me a lot of Rogue’s integrity IPA. Actually, it just reminds me more of Rogue’s yeast and that general distinct note that their unfiltered beers have. The aroma is very weak overall, though, possibly held back by the high amount of yeast. Anyways, this translates to the flavor as well, yeasty, light plastic (not in a terrible way though), with white dough, touch of white pepper and plenty of lemons, tangerines and grapefruits. Pale grains seem rather husky, especially as it warms and the body comes in to question. Light wateriness, and a very low amount of malt sweetness. Through all of that, it dosent get too dry, just rather hoppy and thin. Bitterness is not over-the-top, and there is no sign of alcohol. Slippery on the tongue at points, while light yeast and grains provide grit.