Weyerbacher Harvest Ale

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle split with Tony. Pours a clear orange with small white lacing. The aroma is sweeeeeet hops. The flavor is slightly bitter with nice sweet pine and citrus hops grown fresh from the FARM. Thanks Weyerbacher

On tap at RFD. Pours a clear, medium amber with a small, white head that leaves no lacing. Aroma is apple cider vinegar with some sour apple notes. This smells a bit past it’s prime. No beta acid hops or resiny/herbal hops. Taste is mostly bitter nuttiness and biscuity malt with a prevailing dryness that makes this beer a little boring.

This brew is a lightly hazed copper-orange color with a medium light beige head that recedes steadily. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of Simcoe hops and malt. Medium body with a moderately hoppy character that has notes of flowers, citrus, and bread . The finish is hoppy with a lingering bitterness that is replaced by some musty malt. Above average overall.

Pours a clean copper amber with a creamy two finger sandstone tan head. The nose is sweet, citrusy and fruity, some ripe navel orange. Flavor has a nice sweetness with a mild grassy bitterness, some citrusy hops. Not as much flavor as I would like. Resinous coating bitterness.

Deep copper color with dense white lacing. Somewhat grassy, subdued hoppy aroma. Constant bitterness throughout, with a slight residue left over. Pleasantly smooth body.

Bottle. Lovely copper body with a finger of dense off-white head. Aromas have a sweet apple juice base to them with some swirling hops... grass and a hint of citrus here and there. Still, the hop aromas are hard to pick out and inconsistent. I like the flavor of this, in spite of the weak nose. It is a pretty good harvest type IPA, but would get kicked around pretty good by an American IPA with some attitude. The apple/caramel malt mixes well with some grass and resin (but it doesn’t really go so far as a pine flavor).

12oz bottle from Sam’s, Durham. A handsome pour of slightly hazy amber with crisp carbonation. Nose is grassy, with a modest malt sweetness. Strange but there’s little about the beer that resembles the autumnal wet hop brews I expect. Certainly an enjoyable variation on an IPA - with plenty o’ centennial if I’m not mistaken - but not the distinctively dank, pungent hops I was hoping for. Decent.

This seems to be mislabeled. Tastes more like an Oktoberfest beer to me. Light caramel earthy aroma. Pours clear amber with a big fluffy head that laces nicely. Flavor is more like a marzen with a big hop bite. Nice dry finish. Solid beer from a good brewery.