Russian River Blind Pig IPA

Brewed by Russian River Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Santa Rosa, California USA

Bottle, sampled at RBSG 08. Pours a hazy amber with a white ring. Huge bitter and sweet hops aroma, with a lot of citrus. Clean, crisp hops taste, with pine and citrus notes. Big lingering bitterness. Great IPA.

Pours a hazy orange with a nice white head. Aroma is citrus, hops, malt. Flavor is oily resinous fresh green tasting hops, malt, biscuit, citrus. Fantastic IPA.

A- This beer had a huge 2 finger head right off the tap which seemed to get bigger as I drank it and left tons of lacing. It was a light orange color. S- Smell was of piney hops with a small amount of a citrus kick. The hops smelled like the amazing scent of adding hops to a wort boil, almost no other IPA that i’ve had has recreated this smell T- Taste was very hoppy for a standard ipa, with blended citrus notes. Sweet pine taste seemed to dominate followed by a rich grainy fullness. M- Very crisp and carbonated but not as viscous as some of RR’s other offerings. Went down very smooth. D- This beer was very drinkable. It did seem to me that it was stronger than 6 percent but none the less it went down fairly easy.

[Bottle] brought back from S.F. Pours a bright orange with a medium fluffy beige head. Aroma is quite musty, with tons of grapefruit and tangerine. Flavor is still a bit musty, not too much malt, which lends to a quite dry mouthfeel. Bitterness grows as I drink it, and is a bit enhanced by the dry mustiness.

Pours a golden yellow-orange with slight haze and sudsy thick white head. Huge aroma of pine, grapefruit, pineapple. Taste is a quick sweet malt initially then all hops- grapefruit, lemon, and piney resin, huge bitterness in the finish. A very solid ipa.

Woohoo! Just moved to the west coast and I can’t even tell you how much of this delicious beer I’ll be drinking in the next year...

I was on a good beer slump and glad to try this. On tap: light copper color with a aromatic scent of hops citrus, pine and with some caramel notes. Tate is the same not overdone on hops but very noticeable. I love this sort of robust, sharp pine hop profile where the hops start and coast through the finish. Very drinkable.

Quarter inch of off-white foam fell quickly to a thick creamy oil slick covering most of the top. Honey colored. I could smell the hops as I walked down the hall, holding the glass in front of me. Now as I sniff deeply, the sharpness is blended with a nice fruity odor. Blueberry? Constant flow of bubbles, like champagne. The lacy slick is actually strengthening as I type, staining the side of the pint glass when I pick up the brew. Sharp hoppy sharp. No fruity taste in that first drink. Long lingering aftertaste is toned but still bitter. I can feel it in my cheeks and gums and lips. As I continue I can start to pick up a bit o’ honey flavor. Sharp aftertaste still loiters long after the mouthfull is gone. Yummyyummyyummy. If you like the uberhoppy IPAs, you’ll probably like this one a lot. I do.