Weyerbacher India Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

12oz bottle via my Secret Santa - Thanks Santa! - Pours amber with a huge rocky offwhite head. That stays well and laces down the glass. Aroma is citrus, grapefruit hops over light caramel malts. Flavor is those same hops with a little more of a malt presence. The hops are much less noticable in the flavor than the aroma. There is also the usual house flavor found in other weyerbachers I’ve tried there. Palate seems a little unbalanced to me. This is drinkable but not what I expect in an american IPA.

Poured an effervescent amber with a small semi-creamy white head. Clean citrus hop aroma with a touch of acidity. Taste is comparatively mild ctirusy hops with a bit of grass and a dry toffee and alcohol finish. Nothing bad about it, but nothing memorable either. Inferior to hops infusion.

Courtesy of Firemoose15. <P> Not very hoppy aroma was suprising. malt and under ripe fruit dominates the aroma. Orange/red in color with huge fluffy white head. Flavor is mildly hoppy with a rich malt base underneath. Comes off as more an English style IPA than American. Also more my style. The hops are present, but not rioting.

Pours an amber color with a decent sized creamy head. The aroma is of floral hops. Think this one’s aroma was better than the taste. Taste was not very balanced and had some strange spice character I couldn’t pick up.

Pours a clear copper orange with a forthy, nicely-lacing white head. Has a dry, earthy, semi-tart hoppy aroma. Starts with some dry caramel maltiness, but has some vegetable character among a touch of citrusy hops. I’m not a big fan of the vegetable flavor and I think this needs more balance.

Poured a clear amber color with a cream colored head. Malty sweet with cirtus and floral hops. Flavors of toffee and apricot with light butterscotch. Bitter and light alc finish.

Out of a bottle. Aroma particularly basement must and earth. Poured a darker orange with a creamy head. Flavor is toasty malt with a light smoke giving way to the citric hoppy side. The woodiness seems to linger in the palate. Overall good, I’d say it would be a starter for someone who isn’t into IPA’s.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with hopdog, thanks Steve!) Earthy, woody, toasty and slightly musty nose isn’t impressing me because there really isn’t much of a hop aroma here, and this is supposed to be an IPA. The flavor also boasts a dry, strongly woody and toasty malt and balanced by a moderately bitter and citrusy hops. Medium bodied, well carbonated, round mouthfeel through to the finish. Slightly hazy, bright orange color, with a small off-white head that completely disappears, not even a small ring around the edge of the glass, and thus, lacing is practically non-existent. Not a bad beer, to me probably about average for the style, but it’s just not doing it for me.