Woodstock India Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Thomas Creek Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Greenville, South Carolina USA

Thanks to goldtwins for this one. Hazy copper/slight ruby pour with 2-finger off-white head. Aroma of heavy tropical fruit, caramel malt, hops, tangerine, honeydew, pineapple. Tastes very hoppy, with a solid palate density and great complexity. It gets a bit dry as it warms and the hops emerge a bit more.

A new beer in the Atlanta Market. A really nice amber color with a nice floral hop aroma. It’s a good combination of malt and hops with a clean hop finish. A good beer for supping as it on the heavy side of the scale. Not a session beer at 8.5%. Good with Pork (I drank instead of a Red wine). Good first offering from a new brewer.

Gotta agree with KingpinIPA...this is a very good Beer that’s being underrated..it’s got everything a real Beer drinker could want...hops, malt, and ABV....in just the right amounts...an excellent, session style Double India Pale Ale. Reminds me of my beloved Big Hoppy Monster!! I’m blessed.

From the looks and name of this, I assuemd it would be another less-than-average gimmick beer. However, I was very pleasantly surprised. Poured to a reddish copper with amedium off-white head that lasted well and left good lacing. Aroma was a very pleasant hoppy citrus (grapefruit) with grassy undertones and a hint of malt. As beer warmed, the 8.5% alcohol made itself known as well in the aroma. Mouthfeel was mostly bitter, somewhat tingly, with just a touch of sweetness. The flavor, as expected from the aroma, was mostly on the hoppy-grapefruit citrus side, again joined at mid-glass by the alcohol. This all blended very niocely into a long bitter finish.

Bought at a package store in Marietta, GA, this afternoon. Chilled the beer, poured it up. Nice foamy head and coppery color. Very smooth taste with just the right bitters. High gravity (8.5% ABV), but very easy to drink. Also tried the Woodstock Pilsner.

The first high gravity beer to come out of South Carolina that I know of, this one can’t be sold there due to the cap, but apparently brewing it is no problem. Looks like, it will be sold only in Georgia for now. The label was yellow and green, with a decidedly 60’s hippie theme to it. The label called this an India Pale Ale, but with such impressive stats as 77.6 IBUs, and 8.5% ABV, I’d say this one is pretty solidly in the DIPA category.

When poured out of the bottle, this came out orange amber in color, and boasted a three finger head in the Tulip glass. Carbonation looked steady, but the body was clear, so I am not sure about bottle conditioning. The smell was a little mild for the amount of hops put in it, with a pungent spiciness, and fumy alcohol. Taste was hoppy, as anticipated, but the malts masked the apparent bitterness, and revealed more of a citric and spicy hop character. The very well done grapefruit rind hop profile was backed by a sugary sweetness and a hint of apricot. The alcohol was apparent, but the beer was much easier to drink than the strength, and the smell first suggested. The aftertaste was white pepper spicy and chalky dry.

A well done DIPA coming as a debut of a brewery is good thing. Hopefully the sales will be brisk enough to keep these folks in business. I’d like to see more from them other than the Pilsner that is also on the shelves now.

Thick amber body. Piney aroma. Full flavored beer with a lot of grapefruit in the flavor.

Bottle. Poured a clear copper color with a medium white head. Nice lacing. Mouthfell is excellent. Aroma was hoppy with a nice sweet maltiness to it as well. Flavor is sweeter and maltier than most IPAs, with some caramel tastes to it. Finish is hoppy with a nice citrus bite. A pretty good IPA, although the flavor seemed more like a pale ale to me. Thanks to TheBeerCellar for this one!