Shipyard Fuggles IPA

Pours a hazy orange with aq moderate head. Snow white head that recedes quickly. Looks like most IPAs. Weak aroma. Pick up hints of hops. Fruity flavor. Kind of grape-apple-ish. Very harsh finish. Goes down very harsh. Horrible finish. Light mouth feel. Harsh carbonation. Very near a drain pour. Horrible. OK, came back to add that I ended up drain pouring. Worst beer I’ve had in a long time.

Pours a clear copper/gold from the 12oz. bottle: Yeast, resin, earth, black pepper, citrus bitterness, pale malts, pine, and clove- all of which on the funky side. Overall: Unfortunately unbalanced for an IPA. It’s watery and boring. Blame it on the Fuggles? Rebuy: I’m unimpressed. #142 on 16102009, DG.

A golden brown beer with a good size head. The aroma is malty, & spritzy. The taste is an uninspiring IPA that is more akin to a British IPA.

Has a deep gold pour with orange and amber at the edges, gave a pretty dense off-white large head that took a while to recede, lots of carbonation, left a good amount of lacing on the glass, aromas of grassy hops, dusty, citrus floral, caramel and malt sweetness, flavors of orange and lemon citrus and pale malts, medium mouth feel that leaves the palate pretty dry with spme citrus bitterness, I found this beer to be enjoyable to drink.

Shipyard IPA is a hazy golden ale with a dense, bubby, off white head that has excellent retention and lacing. The aroma is fruity and grassy with notes of crackers and black pepper. There is note that’s almost smokey or ashy and a whiff of wet earth. It’s medium bodied, soft, smooth and creamy. The finish is clean. It’s good and bitter and the malt balances it out well. It’s fruity, resiny and grassy. The aftertaste is of juniper and black pepper. It’s so English and so sessionable.

THIS IS A RUSTED LOOKING BEER WITH A SOAPY LOOKING HEAD AND PLEASANT BUT LIGHT IPA’ISH AROMA, YET IT FAILS TO COMPETE WITH OTHER IPAS IN FLAVOR , JUST NOT MUCH GOING ON, NOT IMPRESSIVE FOR AN IPA. LEAVES ME WITH NOT MUCH TO SAY. ******** JUST WENT TO THE BEER STORE AND THEY GAVE ME A FREE 6 PACK OF THESE BECAUSE THEY WERE EXPIRED. TURNS OUT WHEN I WENT HOME I CHECKED THE EXPERATION DATE ON THE ONE I RATED AND IT EXPIRED IN MARCH 2008! A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, ALTHOUGH IVE NEVER HEARD OF AN IPA EXPIRING ILL HAVE TO GET A FRESH PACK OF THESE AND RERATE IT ONE OF THESE DAYS. SO UNTILL THEN DONT MIND THIS RATING....TO BE CONTINUED....

Mild aroma, but nice earthy hops with light malts. Medium flavor with some floral and eaarthy hops. Light caramel malts, but nothing overpowering. Finishes with an understated bitterness. I could have a few of these in a sitting, but nothing exceptional.

Pint at RnH. Pour is between amber and copper in color. Not much head at all, aside from a few collections of suds scattered about. Fuggle hops sounded new to me, but I know I’ve had the tasted before. Odd yeast, resin, malt, clove funk flavor to it. Finishes bitter. Cool beer, definitely not your usual IPA, would like to have more like it.