Palisade Red Truck IPA

Brewed by Palisade Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Palisade, Colorado USA

Bottled. Cloudy orange amber with medium white head that lasts though the whole brew. Aroma of grass and resin hops along with obvious caramel malts, slightly sweet smelling. Taste is semi-sweet with lots of hop flavor though has more malt character than most IPAs, which makes this brew somewhat unique and fun to drink.

Bottle shared by acrdz/mj on 7/10/08: Pours a transparent orange bronze with a thin spotty-lacing off-white head. Aroma of some toasty caramel malt and mild grapefruity hops with a hint of tartness. Body starts fairly full and semi-sweet with good bitterness and grapefruity flavor hops before a drier, bittersweet finish. Needs more assertive fresh hoppiness.

Cask Stillage from the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 26/09/2009 Big hop aroma. Bronze golden coloured and a little nutty flavoured with a fruity bitter and earthy malt finish.

My head overfloweth! This beer is seriously frothy... be careful pouring it! It has a nice, amber-red color, a fruity aroma, and light hop/fruit flavor. I wouldn’t have guessed this was an IPA had I not known beforehand. The sweetness/fruit is a bit too much if you’re expecting an IPA. If not, be ready for a sweet beer and you’ll enjoy it. I only had a 3oz sample, with fussy baby in hand, so Red Truck didn’t have my full attention.

Bottled. Poured medium orangey-amber with a tall, fluffy, sticky cap of off-white head.. nice lacing as it descended. The aroma picked up slightly tart red fruits, caramel, and some biscuity notes with dusty and abrasive (two different things) accents.. started out good, but didn’t come together in the end. The flavor found the same fruits and caramel at the core with pine and floral bitterness around.. the bitterness became too assertive with too little balance on the back.. tacky on the finish. Light-medium bodied and bitter on the palate.. balance and feel just weren’t there.

12oz botttle from Bubble Liquor in Castle Rock. Pours murky copper with thick off-whte head. Aroma is sweet malt, candied sugar, hops, and a little citrus. Flavor is malty with caramel, candied sugar and some hops. Definitly more a malt forward IPA. More of balance APA than a IPA in my opinion. Decent ale just not a good IPA.

Amber color with good head retention. By appearance alone you’d think it’s just another IPA. But a pleasant surprise awaits in the nose. This IPA has an alluring, candied malt with hops aroma. Hmm... Belgian candy sugar? ... very reminscent of an abbey single. On the palate the rather nontraditional candy maltiness is promnent at first but then the hops rush in to tame the sweetness, leaving you with the impression that this beer also has good balance. Very, very drinkable. Medium bodied. In summary, this has to be one of the most drinkable IPA’s out there yet still serious enough to be considered by hopheads as well.