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.)

Fairly heavy palate. Very full flavored and well balanced with sweet malt and loads of hops. Dark orange color. Citrus, especially grapefruit in the finish.

Bottled. Amber with creamy tan head. Juicy and floral grapefruit aroma, notes of pines and peaches. Dry bitter flavour of oranges and grapefruit. Long grassy bitter finish.

Bottle (with a "10" on the cap) thanks to DA. Pours with a beautiful, crystal clear amber-orange body and a large, fluffy white head. Some good lacing. Aroma of citrus cascade, a bit fruity, pine and dank, with fresh bread dough notes in the back ground with a tinge of fresh clover honey. Taste is bread, followed by a lot of floral and then bitter hops, and a good bit of crystal malt. Prickly carbonation. I need more from these guys!

Draft. Amber beer with a nice whitish head. Good grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and light pine flavor with backing malts (caramel with a bit of roast and chocolate). Grapefruit and complex malts linger. Medium body. Decent bitterness. Nice beer.

The pour reveals a slightly cloudy orange color with a thin white head. Very good aroma of citrusy and piney hops, there’s a definite orange smell to it. The flavor is very good with a focus on hops, citrusy and piney, it finishes with some bitterness. The body has a light to medium thickness with an oily texture and moderate carbonation. A very well done and enjoyable IPA.

Thanks to cmaruschak for providing me with this superb IPA. Pours a bright bronze/orange color with tiny rising bubbles and a medium white fluffy head. Nice lacing streaks the glass. Big citrusy hops aroma. Medium-bodied with an excellent hops flavor. Citrus and a bit of malt and herb flavors are very well-balanced. The finish retains the flavorful hops throughout. This is probably the best "regular" IPA I have had, beating out even Alesmith and Buckeye Hippie IPA. Excellent!

In short: An intense and absurdly hoppy IPA. Very tasty, very bitter, totally unbalanced and very very good.
How: Bottle 22oz, tasting session with Montreal crew
The look: Clear dark golden orange body topped by a small off-white head
In long: Intense hoppy nose lying somewhere between pine-tree and citrus/orange fruits. Taste is even more intense that the nose. This is one hoppy IPA. The light sugary malts make a short appearance before being taken over by a truckload of hops that are resinous, fruity and foresty (pine-tree and cedar). Bitterness is intense and sharp and the finish is very long. I usually prefer my IPAs with more than just a hop smack in the mouth but despite its lack of malt character this one really worked for me. About as balanced as an overweight drunken redneck on a rodeo bull.