11th Hour IPA
Crow Peak Brewing

 

 

Thanks again to my friend for sending me beers from states I will otherwise never visit.

Very clear bright golden amber color. Medium head.

Extremely grainy aroma. Citrusy. Subtle floral character.

Taste is grapefruit, biscuits, cereal grains, and pine. Very old school west coast flavor.

Medium-light body with solid carbonation.

I definitely like this one. Couldn't find a canning date but it's a classic bitter piney easy drinking IPA.

Poured from a 12 ounce undated can into a tulip glass at 48 degrees.

Look- Medium amber, clear, small amount of tiny particulate, cream colored frothy head, above average head retention and lacing.

Smell- Biscuit, grassy, medium strength of scent.

Taste- Biscuit, earthy, grassy, medium strength of flavor.

Feel- Medium body, slightly above average carbonation, moderately creamy, highly bitter.

Overall- Appearance was good with the exception of the medium amber color, which was a giveaway that this beer would be too malt forward. Bouquet and flavor were plenty strong, they were just not appealing. Very malt heavy with little to no hop flavor able to seep through. Feel was a very nice medium body with plenty of creaminess and bitter character. The feel was the one characteristic of this beer that really was well done. Overall this beer was much too malty and lacking in hop flavor to provide me with an enjoyable drinking experience.

 

Clear golden color, small white head. Good retention.

Piney and grapefruit aroma, pine bark and wood more specifically, grapefruit zest and some juiciness, a hint of malt, earthy, lemony, some iced black tea.

Reminds me a lot of Lagunitas IPA. Pine bark, pine wood, pine sap, earthy, pine cone...zesty grapefruit oils, citrus and pine oils coat the tongue. Seriously piney IPA. I love it. This is one of the super nice old school liquid pine cone IPAs. Crisp, dry, biscuity malt. Pretty serious bitterness hits initially, rides for a bit and then subsides to a fairly crisp finish. Mouth is coated with oils a bit. Crushable in spite of its bitterness and intense pine.

If you like old school American IPAs, you're going to love it. I personally am a huge fan. If you're in distro, buy this! Take your taste buds for a whirl.

12oz can into a pint glass.
L: Pours clear medium caramel w some large steady carbo bubbles, a 1+" foamy pock-marked off white head w excellent retention, loose baggy lacing w some ghostly banding.
S: Grains, grassy hops, caramel malts, floral, a hint of orange, a suggestion of hard candy sugar.
T: Lightly sweet malts, a hint of bread, a firm hop bite, bright citrus zest, a hint of toffee, pine, hops are slightly intense but aren't bashy, fairly full flavored, lingering bitterness.
F: Firm, brisk, med to med-light bodied, bright and wet w a moderately long medium dry finish and a long linger.
O: Well balanced, excellent bittering, hop forward, gently sweet, very EZ drinking, good carbo to end. A beautiful American IPA. Would like to try this on tap. It is excellent in its style.

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a clear amber color. 3 finger fluffy white head. Head retention is decent. Really nice lacing on the glass.
The nose has a nice, but mellow pine hop to it. There's a hint of pineapple also, but faint.
Taste - Yeah, lots of sticky pine flavor here. This is a very old school IPA flavor here.
Very sticky feeling. The hops coat, and cling to my throat, and just don't let go. Body is decent.
Solid old school IPA, and a good throwback to what IPAs used to be. I like it.

Golden, and lacy once the head recedes. Great look in the glass.

Smells like an IPA.

Bitter and bright. A little hollow. If you like IPA, you'll like this; but it's not pushing any new boundaries, that's for sure.

Thin and smooth mouth feel.

Not bad. Not special.

 

 

No canned date

Appearance - Pours crystal clear and brilliant orange in color with an off-white, near two-finger width head. Displays good retention before settling to a thin, consistent layer of surface suds.

Smell - Grassy, slightly piney and floral, and with a hint of bready sweetness riding beneath.

Taste - Follows the nose. Really grassy, with hints of pine and floral character accenting the hop profile. Fair malt presence, with bready sweetness and a faint touch of toffee, especially near the finish. Aftertaste lingers with that grassy bitterness.

Mouthfeel - Light-to-medium in body with fair carbonation. Drinks easy enough before a mostly dry finish.

Overall - Fair to good IPA. I'm not really one for grassiness in IPAs though. I finished the sixer no problem.

L: Ice tea or copper coloring, surprisingly clear (in today's age), with a quickly receding beige head and sparse lacing.

S: More like a malty amber than an IPA, one note. Bitter. Astringent. Unpleasant.

T: Disparate malt bomb and bitter nuke. Turpentiney pine-like bitterness. Horribly strong bitter finish which lasts seemingly forever. I like the very bitter IPAs, but this is a crazy outlier.

F: Okay carbonation and dry finish on a medium body, but bitey and difficult to drink.

O: This just seems to me to be a prime example of what not to do - more bittering hops eventually is not better. This is two different beers fighting to dominate - a malty amber, and a cloyingly bitter IPA.

6/22/19...medium copper, still light, foamy lid. Pine bitter leads. Grassy too. Soft open, sneaky bitter mixed with a toffee malt. Bitter gains steam as the beer goes on. Hearty finish.

Would not recommend personally.