Speakeasy Big Daddy IPA

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

Real nice beer. Awesome off-orange gold color. Nose of well crafted hops. Smells like the bitter rind of an orange. I love it. Nice lacing. Tasted of bitter delicious hops and malt. Real easy on the palate for someone who is interested in hops. I can’t wait to have another.

golden orange colour, small white head. fresh citrus nose with lots of grapefruit and pine. lots of hop flavour with mild fruit cocktail and toasted bread. grapefruit finish. not nad

Cloudy amber colour leaning to organge with thick off white head. Robust grapefruit hop nose. Full grapefruit hop taste with dry hop finish.

overall great beer. some try to brew a more complex ipa, but this one has the perfect balance.

Substantial hops on the nose -- bright fruit (grapefruit, nectarine), some faint yeast spiciness. Cloudy gold-orange hues, and some lacing. Taste is heavy of the hops, but they behave well without much bite. Short palate for an IPA, this beer leaves a dry contrail in the mouth. Not particularly full or heavy mouthfeel.

Pours a slightly hazy deep gold color with a minimal head. Some lace. Aroma is pine, citrus, grapefruit and some mint. Pretty much not malt backbone for either the aroma or flavor. Flavor is dominated by a dry tasting hop tea which is very boring. Lots of bine and some mint in the end. Finishes almost bone dry and somewhat tart. I actually like a lot of IPA’s that are way overbalanced by hops but this sure as hell wasnt one of them.

I agree with WISEGUY below. It needs a muh fuller mouth feel. Its not much of an experience.

Typicallish hop aroma, big hop flavor though, which is nice. Farily light amber, bordering on gold. Another West Coast IPA that doesn’t heap on the crystal malts to fatten up the body. I kinda like that.