Pelican India Pelican Ale

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

22oz bottle from liquid solutions. Pours clear copper color with a fluffy off white head that left some spotty lacing. Nose of citrus hops and a touch of sweet malt. Flavor is big on hop bitterness while a good balance of sweet malts really makes this a well balanced and tasty IPA...

Boy, do I love this beer. Every time I order from Liquid Solutions I try to get one of these beauties. Just about as good a NW hop bomb IPA as you could like, with a sweet orange body, frothy head, huge citrus nose and a gorgeous malt backbone. Very nicely tart and resiny, and consistent as hell. Just an awesome brew.

6/17/2007: India Pelican Ale pous a nice, clear golden orange color. There is a two-finger ivory head that is dense, rocky, long-lasting, and leaves interesting pictograph-like lacing on the glass. The aroma is citrus and pine with some toffee maltiness. The flavor is clean and satisfying with lots of grapefruit and pine hops, a moderate bitterness, and just enough toffee maltiness to provide the necessary balance. There is a long, pleasing bitter finish hightlighted by citrus (grapefruit and tangerine) hop flavors. This is an extremely easy to drink IPA despite its higher alcohol content (no alcohol is noticeable in the flavor!). This beer has a medium-full body and is very smooth and mellow on the palate. India Pelican Ale is an excellent IPA.

22 oz bottle from trade with kenb (Oct 2006). Thanks Ken. I appreciate it! Rating #173 for this beer...

22 OZ Bottle from the Pelican Brewery at the beach. Pours a clear copper color with a large head that leaves a lof of lace as it slowly dissipates.Nice hoppy aroma with notes of orange, grapefruit, lemon, butterscotch, and subtle caramel malt backbone. Medium bodied and carbonated just right. Starts out with a sweet caramel/molasses flavor, then turns to a strong orange and finishes with a hoppy bitter grapefruit mouth-puckering bitter. Just very nice and makes me smile. The cascade hops are barely kept in check here! Actually, no they aren’t, lol..does have the bitter grapefruit rind finish..

Bottle, thanks Mark: This is a very solid, spicy IPA. Very piney up front, virtually no head as poured from the bottle. Toasted caramel malt in the background. Flavor is a one-two punch of pine and then citrus, with a well-rounded bitter finish.

22oz bottle, from Secret Santa, RiversideAK, pours a nice copper color like i’d expect, and the smell radiating is just phenomenal tons of grapefruit and hop aroma, taste is awesome as well, just loads of awesomeness. Very glad i got to try this.

Bottle. Aroma huge hops, mostly floral and herbal at first, good amount of pine as well, grapefruit appears upon warming. Flavor follows suit, very bitter. Extremely bitter. Not lacking bready malt, but my goodness, this is powerfully hoppy, powerfully bitter. If part of this bitterness is astringency, it’s welcome. Grating on the tongue. A truly in-your-face IPA.

Poured amber color from 22 ounce bottle with minimal bubbly white head. The aroma is really pleasant, resinous, earthy, pine needles. Flavor is mostly the citrus resinous hops. There is just enough malt sweetness to smooth the power of the hop blast in this IPA. Has the crispness I expect in a good IPA. Palate is very nice and a nice lingering bitter citrus alternating with a bit of malt. Overall I have only one complaint. This 22 ouncer was $6.99 US here in Oregon. I can ony hope this summers’ trip to the brewpub will be a better value. I only live about 65 miles from there and the wife wants to go to the beach this year.