Skagit River Scullers IPA

Brewed by Skagit River Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Mount Vernon, Washington USA

This is one of the best and most drinkable IPAs that I have had in years. After a round of samples at the KLCC brewfest, this is defintely one of my favorites and woke my palate and my nose up after tasting a lot of mediocre beers. The aroma is immense, and I walked around smelling this for about 5 minutes and just marvelled at how much I enjoyed it. The flavor is perfectly balanced with alot of sweet maltiness and some grapefruit hoppy resins, coats the mouth with flavor and dances of the palate with carbonation and acidity. Enjoyable and easy to drink, and is not a palate killer.

(Bottle) Pours a cloudy orange body with a large long-lasting roacky beige head. Aroma of breadiness, caramel, and grapefruit. Flavor of toasted malt andhops with a bitter ink-like finish.

Bright amber with a decent head. Sweet, inviting nose. Creamy-smooth texture; nice carbonation. Malts had very little sweetness to speak of; mostly big toast. Hops gave off weak aromas, but were rather stark in the bitterness department (flowers and pine). Bitterness seemed to build with time and made the beer somewhat unbalanced.

Head is initially average sized, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is medium amber. Aroma is moderately hoppy (resin), lightly malty (cookie). Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lighlty sweet, moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Dull.

Clear copper, minimal head. Aroma is big fruity hops, bubblegum, pineapple and citrus. Almost too sweet. Taste is more fruity hops, bitterness comes in, starts to dominate through the finish. Somewhat unbalanced with the overly sweet aroma and bitter finish. Good PNW hop juice though.

Bronze amber color, sticky head, light lacing. Nose is sappy with pine and sweet pineapple juice. The flavor is overly bitter, no balanced but medium bodied and fairly refreshing. Not one I’d like to drink again due to the intensity of the bitterness.

Nice looking IPA, in the glass, deep,warm orange with a gorgeous creamy and thick off white head..lovelly to look at. Aroma is fresh and of course of spicy hops! Slightly red grapefruit and confectioners sugar. Very hoppy IPA very tongue tingling some maltiness at ther end, then a long rolling bitterness finished of by a good "hop burb"..nice Very good mouthfeel with a long lingering and tasty bitterness. I liked this IPA, certainlly one for the hop heads but drinkable indeed.

Clear orange pour with nice thick head. Big nose of grapefruit and light malt. Flavor is full on grapefruit with a nice suprise of malt. Clean finish with hops left on the palate.