India Pale Ale
HaandBryggeriet

Got to check this out on tap at Craft. Copper in color, a lot of suspended yeast I suspect floating around. It did make a good 3/4" white head, and almost uniform lace down the glass.

Aroma lacked dry hopping. Taste was all bittering grapefruit like hops. For being an English ipa, it sure has those bittering hops all over it. Its a little different, something yeast or water wise giving a unique aspect of the mouthfeel. Alcohol kind of pronounced.

I'm not super down with this beer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kind of an odd duck; not bad, but not great. Bottle started foaming over after opening. Poured with a huge, foamy, frothy, tan head that rapidly settles down to a light spotty cover and a little lace. Color is a cloudy, medium amber. Aroma is spicy, malt, caramel, hops, yeast, pungent. Flavor is like nose. Yeast stands out, even a tiny bit fishy. Good body and excellent carbonation. Finish has some alcohol and is like flavor with a surprise of slight sweetness. Good burps. Reminds me of a cross between a pale ale and a farmhouse. Not a quaffer.

This beer pours a thick hazy amber color with a finger foamy white head that dissipates quickly. The aroma is strong of bubblegum notes and some fruitiness. The taste is strong with cardboard and earthy tones. The mouthfeel is way overcarbonated and harsh. Overall very unique but not very good and definitely not an IPA.

another great purchase from gbx recently. this one was enjoyed last weekend in a pint glass while shooting hoops in the yard.

poured a lighter amber then i was expecting but with a huge head of white that coated the entirerty of the glass and left tons of lacing down the sides.

aroma was a fine mixture of light piney hops, hints of fresh grass and a touch of tea leaves as it warms. this carries over very well into the flavor as each sip starts with a nice bite of hops which quickly mellow into a fresh meadow like flavor with light earthy tones, grasses, light grains and a smooth, light and dry finish that was remarkably clean and drinkable.

overall i really liked this one. i ha no clue how strong it was which made it even better.

Pours out a kind of cloudy ice tea with two fingers of very foamy off-white suds.
Smell is very fruity with mango and orange and grapefruit aromas mixed with a sharp hop and slight alcohol smell.
Taste is slightly sour then bitter then becomes watery. I am getting some malt but very little.
Some sugar and some alcohol but both very faint.
Mouthfeel is dirty then clean then sticky.
This is a strange drinking beer.
Drinkability is not bad. I just wish it would have a little more flavor retention.

Golden in color with a huge thick head

Good aroma malt and hops but nothing more then average

Carbonation starts and finishes very quickly with a nice earthyness. The flavor dissipates and bitterness becomes a very smooth flavor.

This beer taste good but the price decreases it's drink ability however that said i would suggest it as its is a good beer.

On tap at Leon's Full Service

A- Poured a hazy golden brown with a 2 finger foamy white head. Head was persistent and sticky until the very end.

S- Not a lot of aroma to it. Malty with a slight, and I mean very slight, citrus aroma.

T- Deliciously smoky with a medium amount of malt body and a nice bitter finish. I've never had a smokey IPA like this and it was delicious. Such a wonder sweet and smokey flavor.

M- Medium bodied, oily.

D- A really delicious beer. Smokey and sweet and incredibly refreshing. I drank this outside at 90 degrees and it was wonderful.

Looked the part, good copper haze, chunkies, great head and retention of the lace. Aroma was absent.

Only seems to use bittering hops, no flavor, aroma, dry hopping seems to be the case here. Super bitter and sour. Somewhere between an English and Belgian IPA, with lots more bitterness. A profile similar to when rye is used in the beer. Light malt, maybe there is a % of rye or wheat with this one. Just a trip. Check it out if not too pricey, its probably one of the more unique IPAs you'll ever come across.

Pours a hazy gold-orange color with a light-tan wet filmy head. Old grapefruit aroma, with a light earthy smokiness. Sweet fruity flavor with overripe apples (Fuggles?), crystal malts, earth, and a dry bitter finish. Obviously English in style. Nice filling mouthfeel.

Poured from a 0.5L bottle into an imperial pint glass. Batch 259, brewed on 08.12.09, best before 08.12.11.

This IPA is dark orange-gold in color with a very substantial foamy white head that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Hazy! Can also see some yeast chucks floating in there. You can also see quite a bit of carbonation firing off in the glass, likely contributing to the foaming action. Looks like some pretty good lacing is in the works as well.

This is definitely an unusual smelling IPA. I don't detect a citrus hop smell, like in many American IPAs (which I am more familiar with). Instead, here, it is more of a grassy, hay-like, bitter/hop spicy smell. Nothing wrong with that.

As for the taste, well, again, quite unique. There is a delightful spicy hops kick with a kind of smokey undercurrent. Like no other IPA I have had, but I'm liking it the more I drink. There is an oh so slight citrus hint in there. But, this hop character is more of a bitter one. More reminiscent of some English ales I have had, with a strong hop bitterness to them. As I continue to drink this beer, there is still a taste I'm detecting that I have yet to clearly identify. Almost like some kind of a berry--juniper? Well, whatever is going on here, this is a nice IPA that I will likely seek out again during my time in Norway.

Mouthfeel is highly carbonated. Hops give a little bit of a pucker factor with the bitterness. Drinkability is quite good. Would likely compliment some Thai food quite nicely.

A: Poured from a bottle to a pint glass. Had an amber color and thick, cloudy consistency. Lots of floaters. There was an inch of long-lasting, foamy head. OK lacing.

S: A strong, hoppy aroma, with traces of malt and barley.

T: Tasted predominantly of spicy hops, with some malt and an earthy quality. Much more lively than most English IPAs. Very flavorful.

M: Lots of carbonation and a smooth finish. Medium-bodied.

D: An extremely drinkable IPA, though it may be a little out of character from the style.

Thanks to Stein for getting this one.
Poured into a pint glass.

A: Pours a vibrant orange marmalade color with a full finger and a half of fluffy foam that dissipates quickly. Plenty of lacing left around the glass as well, with a nice quarter finger of foam sitting on top.

S: Smells of spicy hops, revealing citrus behind the earthy tones. I also feel like I smell rye (haven't checked the label to see if they mention it). Seems a little musky/stale.

T: Tastes almost exactly like it smells. Very earthy, and I swear I taste rye. Gettin the same score as the smell.

M: Decent enough but not mind-blowing. Nice body, but not terribly smooth. Slightly overcarbonated as well. Just kinda in the middle.

D: Oof. I'm not getting this again. It actually seems like a decent beer of some other category, just not IPA. Unfortunately, whatever category that is, I'm not a big fan of it.

On-tap at the Brick Store.

Pours a hazy and light copper color with a one-finger off-white head. The head recedes into a patchy layer on top leaving solid lacing.

Smells of slightly bready pale malts with good amounts of floral and earthy hop aromas.

Tastes similar to how it smells. Pale malt flavors kick things off and are soon augmented by mild biscuit-y flavors. Midway through the sip mild amounts of citrus hop flavors work their way into things and are joined by mildly bitter and earhty hop flavors right before a crisp ending.

Mouthfeel is good. It's got a solid thickness with moderate carbonation.

Drinkability is also good. I finished my glass without a problem and could have another.

Overall this was a good beer for the style although it didn't have a defining characteristic to make it anything better than that. Worth a shot and likely better on-tap.

Took a chance and picked up a bottle after having some good experiences with Mikkeller single hopped beers. Poured a very hazy medium brown, looked a lot like unfiltered apple cider. Very heady pour that couldn't be avoided.
Pretty subtle aroma. Black tea, smoke, very subtle earthy hops. Pretty typical EIPA aromas.
Flavors are pretty close ot the aromas. But, the smokieness seems to be more prominent. Stronger black tea with subtle earthy hops.
Medium bodied. Slight chalkiness from the hops. Good, almost nitro-like carbonation.
Pretty drinkable once you adjust your expectations from a typical American IPA. At 6.5%, probably only 1 or 2 would do the trick.
Pretty good beer that I'd buy again. It's so hard to find an IPA to keep in the rotation when there are so many out there, that it may be awhile for a return visit. Definitely worth a try.