Terrapin India Style Brown Ale

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Athens, Georgia USA

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival 2008. A red-brown beer with a huge orangey head. The aroma is sweet malty combined with notes of grass, caramel, and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of spices and chocolate, leading to a dry nutty finish. The flavor is a bit light.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pours a clear reddish brown with a creamy beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, burned caramel and good aroma hops. Medium body with notes of burned caramel, roasted malt and a distinct and dry aromatic bitterness. Excellent! 200908

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Brownish amber, creamy head. Aroma of blood, metal and chocolate. Medium sweet with rough mushy mouthfeel. Above medium bodied with some molasses and a rough resiny bitterness.

RBSG07. From growler. Pours brown/amber. Aroma is nice floral and slight citric hops. Flavour is fresh fruity hops, nice orange/grape fruit note. Finish is sweet fruity hoppy bitter. Brown ale? Never mind its good.

Bottle 355ml.
Clear light dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, nutty - wood - forest, moderate to light heavy hoppy, orange. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [260908]

Bottled@SBWF2008. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is sweet hops, wood and some mild nectary notes. Flavour is very much the same. Rather sweet fruity and nectary aftertaste.

Name: India Brown Ale
Date: 04/01/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Athens

Appearance: clear dark amber, frothy beige head, specks of lace,
Aroma: fresh citrus hop aroma,
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, well balanced with plenty of bittering hops, nice citrus character, light lingering bitter finish,
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Date: 04/04/2007
Mode: draft
Source: taco mac
Score: 3.4 to 3.6

the hop flavor is subdued enough to allow the rich chocolate malt to come out but assertive enough to add lots of flavor and character,
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Date: 08/17/2007
Mode: draft
Source: wild wing
Vintage: batch 2
Score: 3.6 to 3.5

Appearance: color is now more of a clear dark brown befitting a brown ale, thick creamy beige head leaves thick lace,
Aroma: picking up some bready quality in the aroma,
Flavor: the chocolate flavor is coming out richer as the hops are a bit more subdued,
Overall: now more of a brown ale than an india brown ale
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Date: 03/08/2008
Mode: draft
Source: brewery

Aroma: sweet dark caramel and chocolate aroma,
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, lots of hops to balance the chocolate but still allows a dark caramel sweetness to emerge to enrichen the chocolate,
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Date: 08/06/2008
Mode: bottle
Words: Green’s

Aroma: dry chocolate and roasted aroma with citrus hops,
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, lots of earthy and citrus hops, plenty of bitterness keeps it dry and pulls a burnt roasted character out of the malt,
Overall: this first bottle batch has dried out quite a bit,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Clear dark amber with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and hoppy notes. Flavour likewise with a bitter finish.