Test Drive IPA
Cascade Brewing / Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub
- From:
- Cascade Brewing / Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 5.7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 1.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 14, 2011
- Added:
- Sep 05, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Orca from Washington
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured on tap into an American pint glass @ Naked City, Greenwood, Seattle. Amber/copper color with a thin head that leaves a nice lace of tiny foam along the sides of the glass. Aroma is a nice balance of malt and hops. Taste is bitter hops, floral, really nice. Overall a good IPA but nothing outstanding.
Oct 09, 2011
Reviewed by Kegatron from Pennsylvania
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap @ the Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub (Portland, OR) on 9/5/11. Served in a pint glass.
Pours a crystal clear copper, with a ½ finger of bright-white head. This retains with a thin creamy richness and throws up a big cascade of lace that hangs in spotty swathes. The aroma smells floral and leafy (and a touch dank), punctuated with some sharper tones of spice and pine and bitter green citrus. A sweet breadiness undercuts the hops a bit. I’m really enjoying the fresh and floral aspects of this.
The taste has a fresh and zesty citric bite, with a moderate resinous feel and some herbal textures that are along for the ride. This is balanced by a neutral sweet graininess, leaving the hops to control the finish with a lingering dryness, pine, and a leafy feeling pithiness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, with a smooth crispness that glides along easily. This has a nice quenching feel to it, with this making good use of its lower ABV.
This was good. I enjoyed the mix of Centennial and Calypso hops that were used here, as this focused more on achieving a crisp bitterness on the palate instead of a full-one robust hoppiness per say, but I think that in this case, the ABV and body supported the profile well. Plus I was just in the mood for something like this to pair up with my burger!
Sep 28, 2011Pours a crystal clear copper, with a ½ finger of bright-white head. This retains with a thin creamy richness and throws up a big cascade of lace that hangs in spotty swathes. The aroma smells floral and leafy (and a touch dank), punctuated with some sharper tones of spice and pine and bitter green citrus. A sweet breadiness undercuts the hops a bit. I’m really enjoying the fresh and floral aspects of this.
The taste has a fresh and zesty citric bite, with a moderate resinous feel and some herbal textures that are along for the ride. This is balanced by a neutral sweet graininess, leaving the hops to control the finish with a lingering dryness, pine, and a leafy feeling pithiness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, with a smooth crispness that glides along easily. This has a nice quenching feel to it, with this making good use of its lower ABV.
This was good. I enjoyed the mix of Centennial and Calypso hops that were used here, as this focused more on achieving a crisp bitterness on the palate instead of a full-one robust hoppiness per say, but I think that in this case, the ABV and body supported the profile well. Plus I was just in the mood for something like this to pair up with my burger!
Reviewed by grittybrews from Washington
4.15/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured a thick orange-amber with a finger of fluffy white head. Floral aroma with touches of tangerine and caramel.
Slightly low carbonation and a full, creamy mouthfeel. Mild pine and apricot up front followed by a rich caramel sweetness and just a trace of pine on the finish.
Very tasty; almost the reverse of a "normal" IPA in that I got more hops up front and a lingering sweetness that didn't really turn hoppy again.
Sep 05, 2011Slightly low carbonation and a full, creamy mouthfeel. Mild pine and apricot up front followed by a rich caramel sweetness and just a trace of pine on the finish.
Very tasty; almost the reverse of a "normal" IPA in that I got more hops up front and a lingering sweetness that didn't really turn hoppy again.
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