Rock Bottom Chicago American Dream IPA

Brewed by Rock Bottom Chicago
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chicago, Illinois USA

tap- chicago- very fruity, lots of mango, tropical fruits with a smooth and non-distracting bitterness. Highly enjoyable.

On tap at RB Chicago. Almost clear, light amber body with medium white head and lots of lacing. Very fresh hop aroma, lots of citrus and only a slight amount of sweet caramel body. Fresh citrus hops with nice caramel malt in the back, a little grassiness over the medium sweet malt as well, very nice. Medium body and nice carbonation. Very nice, fresh IPA, a winner.

Amber color with an off white head, nice lacing. Super fresh fir tree sap hoppy aroma. Medium body with a smooth mouthfeel. A smooth bready malt flavor is quickly overtaken by that fresh fir tree sap, cannabis bud hoppy sweetness. Finishes a bit on the dry side. Very nice IPA here. Draft 7/07/2005

On tap at R.B. Chicago. Poured a hazy medium peach with a tall, well-retained thick beige head. Must’ve been some Simcoe in there... juicy grapefruit and apricot in the nose along with lesser caramel and pine... quite sweet overall. Juicy fruits again in the flavor department (pear, grapefruit, and apricot)... backed by malty sweetness (not sure what exactly) and surrounded by aggressive pine bitterness. Smooth at the core with the aforementioned bitterness... left a fine bitter fruity impression. Well done, KARL!

Pours a cloudy gold with white head. Very nice aroma of grapefruit and a lot of other citrus and other fruit. Nice bitterness, great flavor. I really enjoyed this one.

on tap at RB Chicago. this version was listed as dry hopped with over 50 lbs of Amarillo....pours slight hazed light golden with white head. aroma is dang hoppy, citrus, pine, peach, and apricot. flavors are rather bitter, citrus, pine, apricot. wow pretty high level of bitterness here. nice ipa and one of the better RB Chicago IPAs. 3.7.

7/24/08, so about 2 months after this Amarillo hopped version was tapped it clearly has shown signs of loosing its bitterness edge. still wonderful hop aroma and flavor but not very bitter anymore. still nice though. 3.5.

They call it an american ipa... not sure what that means but it does remind me of a fruity APA. Pours a dark golden color with a small white head and nice lacing. Aroma is sweet hop flowers definatelly floral with a light caramel and a touch of tropical fruit. Palate was well coated and a little sticky. Flavor was outstanding. Nice smooth even bitterness from a fruity hop, I’d say some watermellon and grapefruit mixed along w/ a lightly sweet caramel back. Very nice beer.

On tap at Rock Bottom Chicago. Pours murky orange with a white head. Lots of carbonation. Aroma is of citrus, pine, and caramel malt. The hops in this beer are more sweet than they are bitter, so this beer comes off as very juicy with a nice flavor. Lots of tropical fruit comes through as well. Backbone is of caramel malt. Lots of pine lingers after each sip. Each sip also finishes with a big hop burn. The hops really start to come through in the finish. Not bad.