Speakeasy Big Daddy IPA

Brewed by Speakeasy Ales and Lagers
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
San Francisco, California USA

This is part of a beer club. Had only one bottle but was decent for the price. Poured great and had a nice finish. Would do again.

Transparent dandelion pour with a scant quantity of clingy milk foam. Burnt sweetness and urinal on the nose. Distant white peach and apple fruitiness. Flavor is plainly overpowered by diacetyl. Very burnt, grainy, and dusty. Powerfully acerbic raspberry and cassis fruit in a pungent, unexpected burst. Unusually thick palate; almost full-bodied with medium carbonation. Finishes sharply with grapefruit bitterness and plastic. Very strange and a little bit reckless.

12oz bottle poured into a pint glass. Pours orange with a small white fizzy head that shrinks to a small film on top of the beer but leaving good lacing. The aroma is of all citrus hops. Taking a drink it tastes of caramel malt followed by a diecent amount of bitterness. No hop flavor. The body is light to medium with a dry and watery texture and fizzy carbonation. Overall it is a so-so IPA. It has diecent aroma and good bitterness, but not much hop flavor which is disapointing. The body is a little light to me for a IPA.

Not impressed by this at all. Pale orange pour with a small white head. Taste leaves a lot to be desired. Woody taste that I didn’t enjoy. Nasty bitterness in the finish almost made it a drain pour. I gotta agree with vyvvy....or they need to start over with this beer. Wouldn’t buy it again.

350 ml bottle from Bevmo. Yellow amber with a creamy white head. Decent citrus and pine aroma. Good grapefruit, lemon, and pine taste with a decent bite.

Pours golden / coper with a sudsy beige head. The aroma has caramel malt, diacetyl and woody hops. Medium body with decent soft carbonation. The taste is very close to the aroma. I assume this is probably old, but with not bottle dating its hard to tell. If I can rerate with a fresh bottle I will.

Date: 06/07/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Liquid Solutions

hazy yellow, thin fine white head, nice lace, sweet citrus aroma, good body, nice sweet malt flavor with a bitter balance, hops don’t live up to the aroma, good but nothing special by today’s standards

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Score: *4
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Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at John’s Market Place in Portland, OR. Pours a light orangish-amber brew with a decent thick off-white head that slowly dissolves to a good lacing and ring. Aroma of grapefruit, citrus zest, hard fruit and just a touch of caramel malt. Taste is over the top bitter, medium bodied and lightly carbonated. Flavor is mostly grapefruit and citrus zest. Some bread-like malt but the hop infusion is over powering. Finish is high bitter and a lingering grapefruit aftertaste. The brewmaster did not skimp on the hops ingredients in this brew.