 Sparky27 (600), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Sep 27, 2008 Bottle courtesy of Alraomon. Pours a crystal clear amber with one finger fluffy white head and really nice lacing. Nose is caramel malt and floral hops for the most part. Taste is earthy/grassy hops and malt upfront with a mild hop bite in the finish. Medium mouth feel. I’d call this an American Pale rather than an IPA. Not bad though. Thanks Sean!
nearbeer (1334), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Sep 25, 2008 12 oz, bb Jan 09. Clear, orange-copper with a one-finger, creamy and enduring head. Leaves thick frosting everywhere. Flowers, apple, and caramel on the nose. Flavors of peach and caramel apple are well-balanced by orange-resin and woody hop bitterness. Light-medium body is dry and mostly smooth with a mild hop-tingle. Nice session ale.
Naka (426), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 23, 2008 Thanks Juart. Pours a clearish amber orange with a thick frothy cream colored head. A little bit of lacing left. Aroma has some caramelized brown sugar and some flowery and citrusy hop character. Has a little bit of a papery hop flavor. There is a pretty nice bitter to it, but not really anything special. Some balance in there, but mostly just bitter. A little bit of peach and lemon. The body is medium thick and leaves a little bit of a metallic bitter on the tongue. Mediocre IPA.
Heathen (521), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
Aug 17, 2008 THOUGHTS: Not enough balance for me, but still a slightly above average IPA.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a light to medium orange with an average, white, head that mostly diminished, but left good lacing. The aroma was light caramel malt and moderate to heavy citrus, pine and resin hops. The initial flavor was lightly sweet and lightly to moderately acidic; while the finish was moderately sweet and moderate to heavily bitter with a long duration. There was a little orange citrus hops and caramel malt then some piney and metallic hops to finish things off. The light to medium body was a little watery then dry with fizzy carbonation and a moderate astringent and light metallic finish.
vyvvy (1756), Hazelwood, Missouri, USA
Aug 14, 2008 Hopefully this is a bad bottle and I can rerate this at some point. Pours golden with a bubbly pale head. The aroma has caramel malt that is bready and has some diacetyl. Medium / thin body with light tingly carbonation. The flavor starts with dry malt and papery woodiness. The finish shows lots of oxidation. This was not enjoyable and I hope to find another bottle that is in better shape.
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