Siletz Paddle Me IPA

Brewed by Siletz Brewing and Public House
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Siletz, Oregon USA

This will definitely be the last beer I try from this brewery...just an awful example of an IPA. More of a bitter metalic, soapy taste than anything. To the drain with this one. WIth so many great beers in Oregon, how does this place survive?

22 oz bottle. Pours mostly head with foam in the bottle that continues to swell. Cloudy orange rises. Tan-tinted head collapses to a craggy glacier; chunky clouds of lace. Sweet cherry nose with clover honey and plastic hops. Hmmm ... an odd IPA. Bitter lemonade, pink grapefruit with faint notes of cider vinegar. Dries with pith and brown sugar. Good carb-body balance.

Bottle from kenb. Strange aroma, not real hoppy like I was thinking. More soapy than anything. I poured most of this out. Maybe I am faint at heart.

Hugely fruity, exotic nose comprises as much pineapple, mango and litchi amidst a strongly yeasty profile. It displays a gigantic white head that really lasts atop the opaque, very cloudy golden hue. In mouth, I must say this huge carbonation feels a bit too much, making the body feels frailer than it should while hampering the flavour development. I’ll rarely say that, but it seems as if some minimal filtration effort might have removed some of its less appropriate yeast derivatives that I noticed, namely a rather pungent plastic aroma and an emanating chalkiness from its globally mineral foundations.

Any first impressions?
-Bloated foam bobs and laces atop the luminous yet hazy orange.
-Aroma is disappointingly vague and lacks definition, offering old citrus fruit and faint wooden shavings.
-Leafy, green hoppiness provides ample flavor and bitterness, but doesn’t benefit from much malty support.
-The overdone, frothy carbonation dominates the shy maltiness.

What if you dig deeper?
-Flowery honey appears in the aroma after a while.
-Pine needles prick the tongue, and succeed in lightly numbing the lips after a few tries.
-Complexity levels are very low, perhaps hidden by the excessive carbonation.
-If you were attracted by the excited tackiness of their slogan ("Excessively extreme!"), you may be satisfied by its bitter intensity (for a regular IPA), but you might be let down by its overall simplicity.

Bottle; no date.

I’m missing the "Excessively Extreme!" part of the commercial description. Except for the sweet, generic maltiness, this comes across more like a thick English Pale Ale. The aroma is said generic malt sweetness topped lightly with flowery hops. The sweet malt is evenly balanced by a mild floral & herbal hop bitterness. The finish is brief, modestly bitter, with the addition of metallica. I probably would’ve liked this more had I not been expecting an IPA.

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22oz bottle via trade with kenb! - thanks Ken! - Pours amber with a pretty good sized rocky offhwhite head that stays well and laces the side of the shaker that I served it in. Aromas of pineapple, orange, and a little grapefruit. Flavor is a blast of bitter grapefruit type hops with a touch of pineapple there too over biscuit malts. Almost puckeringly bitter on the finish. Some grainy malt can be found underneath. Medium body and a little unbalanced to the hop side for my liking and seems a tad on the overcarbonated side and I think that takes away a bit of the flavor. Not bad though.

Thanks to Ken B. for this one. Pours deep hazy coppery, with 2-finger off-white head. Aroma of fruity hops, bready caramel malt, tropical fruit, and citrus. The flavor is hoppy, bready malty, with some fruity and citric elements coupled with some floral finishing notes to accompany the bready malt.