Pelican India Pelican Ale

Brewed by Pelican Pub & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Pacific City, Oregon USA

Small white head. Hazy yellow body. Can smell citric aromas even before the glass reaches me. Citric mango and grapefruit aroma with resiny caramel notes. Dry-sweetish honey resiny caramel taste with grapefruit notes. Mid-bodied. Dry resiny wooden aftertaste with peppery notes. Very nice and drinkable. (At Oslo beer junta tasting.)

Floral aromas with hints of honey, and maple sugar. Opaque orange color with bubbly off white head. Flavor is sweet initially changing to a salty pretzel like flavor in the middle with a lightly bitter pine finish. Very nice and solid creamy palate. Some smokiness in the flavor, along with sweet notes of caramel and sugar. Bitterness is well balanced and flavorful. Hits the right notes for me.

(22oz bomber) Purchased at Brewery Creek on July 16, 2009. Thanks to Niko for being the beer-mule via the ferries. Great, bright, lively orange nose. Very pine and citrus with an resin elixir, oily finish. Bit orange and pine hops gives way to the ABV and sweet malts. Very enjoyable. 8/4/8/4/15

Source:Sample from a 22oz bottle at a tasting in Nashville.
Glass:Taster.
Appearance:Poured a hazy orange color with a one finger off white head.
Aroma:Muted aroma. Citrus and earth with a hint of pine.
Flavor:Solid malt base with a resiny finish.
Palate:Medium body with solid carbonation.
Overall:I agree with some of the raters below. Very much an English style beer. Very good, but not quite what I was expecting.

Growler sample from a traveling friend. Clear orange color with a thin white head. Balanced aroma of malt and citrusy and grassy hops. Malty and citrusy hop flavor with a lingering bitter finish. Definitely tasting the cascades and they’re delicious.

Thanks to JaBier for giving me this bottle; I split it with SurlySober and enjoyed it greatly. This beer struck SurlySober and I as an IPA that sort of seems a bridge from English-style IPAs and big American ones. The reason I say this is due to the amount and character of the hoppiness in this beer - it is discernibly hoppy, far more so than in an English-style IPA but without the more bitter citrus, grassy, or piney hop character found in the better rated American IPAs. This beer smells and tastes quite hoppy, but more in an English style amped-up kind of way than with the American style hoppiness. Lots of dry hop character. Still good though. It pours gold with a medium amount of white head. Mouthfeel is dry and good. A very nice beer.

Lovely piney nose, some oil, citrus. First class IPA. Tons of hops explode in the mouth. Sweet malt uenderneath, but the hops win the battle and linger on for a long time.

Pours a crystal clear rosy copper with a decent head and some marvellous laceing. Aroma consists of plenty of bitter, oily pine. Yum! Very dry, bitter taste - light biscuit character. Good amount of sweetness upfront, but is consumed by dry hop notes and alcohol - scotch like in terms of dry heat. Great carbonation, crisp body. This is splendid! Reminds me of all those over-the-top IPAs I enjoy when visiting the US. I suspect this would age well.