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Russian River Blind Pig IPA

Russian River Blind Pig IPA

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An India Pale Ale (IPA) brewed by
Russian River Brewing

Santa Rosa, California USA

bottled
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on tap
common

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2343.91/5.03.91/5.0Special6.1%97.7 Shaker, Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
70 IBU's. 1.061 Original Gravity.

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 AllAboutStout (462), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/519/20
Aug 29, 2008  
Pours a straw colored gold in color. About half a inch of head develops on the pour. Smell is very citrusy and juicy. Wonderful. Taste is even more citrusy and juicy hops than appear in the nose. Light, bitter, but exploding with juciness. I love this. It’s an overused expression, but, I could drink this all day long and never tire of it. I might even go out on a limb and say that I’m enjoying this more then the PtE. Would love to have this around regularly.
Many thanks to golubj for sending me this bottle.


 blutt59 (657), Dallas, Texas, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/517/20
Aug 29, 2008  
bottle, cloudy tangerine color, mild foam, nose of pine and cantalope, flavor of pine, cookies, melons and a great smooth hoppy finish


 TomDecapolis (2407), Skippack, Pennsylvania, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/58/104/518/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Much thanks to hopdog for landing a bottle to share. Pours a lightly hazy golden with a medium creamy/bubbly white head that laced. Aroma of grapefruiit, pine, other mixed citrus, juicy hop cones, caramel malt...ok..bottom line, you can’t ask for more in the aroma on an IPA! Flavor of...well you got it...tons of fresh hops, pine, grapefruit, lemon zest, caramel malt, nicely balanced hop bitterness, only thing I can think that it may be missing is some more malt flavor to balance out the flavor a bit. But don’t get me wrong...this is hands down one of the best IPA’s out there!


 mjg74 (1772), La Mesa, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Bottle from Bev4Less. Medium golden/amber in color. Huge skunk bud aroma. Big citric/piney hop flavors going on. Somewhat dry and heavily hopped. Big bitter finish.


 emacgee (1033), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/518/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Pours a copper amber with a lacy white head. The nose was very citrusy, soft and peachy, sweet, grapefruit and apricot. The flavor had more of a bitterness than I was expecting. Has a nice peachy/apricot hop flavor but also a lot of bitterness.




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