Pelican India Pelican Ale

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

From Clingman71. He got this one at Sam’s Warehouse in Chicago. This IPA begins with big malt and continues with spice, and a big, crisp, piney hop finish. This is a pretty balanced IPA, but one with a distinct malt and hop presence. A very flavorful and complex IPA, and one with a thick body.

22oz bottle. Pours a clear amber with a medium thick frothy off-white head. Perfumy slightly oxidized fruity hop aroma with light caramel. Flavor is chewy piney hops, sweet caramel, fairly full flavored, nothing special here. Medium bodied with a full fluffy carbonation. I’m sure this is probably much better from the pub.

22oz bomber. This is one solid IPA. Pours a clear orangish amber with a nice lacing head. Great citrus hop aroma over some caramel malt. Flavor is quintessential American citrus, spicy hopped IPA, resinous and longlasting sticky mouthfeel. Nice building bitterness. Very solid and enjoyable, if I could only get it in Ohio.

Bottle via adam from BA. Pours a beautiful, lightly hazy, copper color, with a dense pillowy beige head. Aroma is nice mix of pine, floral, spicy, citrusy hops, light caramel. Flavor is again floral, spicy, musty, piney hops, decent caramel backbone. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation, finished sticky and nicely bitter. Great stuff, just what I needed!

Just got a couple of these in Illinois. This is a fine IPA. Pours orange with a thin off white head. Fantastic floral and citrus aroma with slight caramel malt. Balanced bitterness with a little bit of an oily mouthfeel. Great stuff, I am going to go back to Sam’s to get the rest of their line.

22oz Bottle purchased at the brewpub. A really juicy, orange-citrus gummy fresh aroma. Dank and superfruity. Like a fresh squeezed glass of orange-juice, or some reduced tangerine, or lime peel. WoW. Pours a crystal clear pale orange-amber, with a nice lacey head. Flavor: damn. This is solid, rock solid. A really crisp, snappy fresh hop flavor plays off of biting, balanced bitterness and a solid tooth of malt. Leafy, minty, and resin-filled hops make a nice profile and a solid, solid rounded palate. Flavorful, rich, balanced, and drinkable. Everything a really well-built IPA should be. Excellent.

22 oz bottle from Sam’s South Loop (Chicago, IL). Pours a bright golden amber, lighter hued than usual, transparent, big offwhite cakey head that stays moderate in size, laces pretty well. Aromas throw off moderate hoppiness, florals and citrus greet the nose, not as intense as hoped for, with light resinous pine and light carmel and pale malts. Decent. Initial is lighter bodied, but still packing some good flavor. Citrusy lemon and flower good pine and some carmel, but moreso pale malts. Bitterness evolves strongly. Age might play a factor, but malt doesn’t seem like it would hold much up to fresher/stronger hopping. Finish is clean, lingering pale sweetness, good strong piney quality, with citrusy lemon hop and bitterness sticking well enough. Elements of an APA, and IPA. Hybrid.

22oz bottle 4/17/09 (Sam’s Wine & Spirits-Downers Grove)-Pours a clear dar golden/ligh amber with a big tight off white head which emits an aroma of citrus and hops. Taste begins with citrus and hops then comes some malt and caramel and it finishes dry. This medium bodied brew is pretty unbalanced but tastes great. Look forward to more brews from these guys.