Ultra Gnar Gnar
Base Camp Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

12oz can, again produced in Vancouver, BC, and not Portland, Oregon. Gnarly.

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some scattered silly string lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some hard water flintiness, faint domestic citrus and tropical fruity notes, a hint of cigar smoke, and rather plain earthy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery caramel malt, a lesser oaten graininess, some still pretty hard to pinpoint generic fruitiness, wet dirty stones, and more understated leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, with just a touch of weird ashiness maybe messing with my palate here. It finishes off-dry, a mixed graininess kind of holding on for dear life.

Overall - yeah, I'm not feeling this one, as the hops appear to be dialing it in from very, very far away. The flavours are more akin to a simple pale ale, than anything like the big, brash IPA this claims to be, so not gnar gnar. Not a bad brew, per se, just essentially misrepresented - get a new agent.

 

 

 

 

Overall, a good classic piney and citrusy style IPA. Not one to blow your mind, but enough to satisfy the hop head in you on a budget. Cheers!

 

 

This was poured into a becher pint glass. The appearance was a burnt orange to amber color with a slim fingered white foamy head that dissipated at a nice pace. The smell had some citrus and piney hops overcoating a nice sweet caramel backbone. Light tobacco. The flavor takes all of the previously mentioned flavors to blend nicely. Sliding edged dry to sweet malty to delicately hopped aftertaste. Quick finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body. Overall, good AIPA for the most part, almost an English style, but not too much. I think I could come back to.

 

 

 

I really did not like this at all. Pours a deep orange/copper with some sediment moving around. Aroma is orange peel and malt. Taste is similar and somewhat bitter. Not a lot going on, especially for Oregon.

 

A fun name, not certain theres much more to it than that. I've had (and reviewed) a couple of Base Camp's offerings and I found them to be "interesting". And this isn't a bad thing, our taste buds can only measure so much of whats suppose to define a style before we get bored with them. Is it Peach or is it apricot? Juniper or pine? I've had some pretty unique styles from Base Camp so dug into it and...

... It's a BLEH IPA and I mean that in the most BLEH way. Smells like a dirty puddle with an array of lawn-mowered pine needles floating within, some malt. I guess it smells like an oxidized Sam Adams Boston.

It tastes like a mouthful of dirty, oily pine needles and grass clippings, maybe a light gnaw on an orange peel. some malts.

Decent mouthfeel, some creaminess, some carbonation, probably the best part of the beer.

Something might be wrong here. The flavors are just off. I have a couple of other cans and they're far from drain pours. If I'm in the mood for an IPA and it's the only one available I'd go for it, best recommendation I can offer.

Cheers