Head Pin IPA
Ten Pin Brewing Co.

 

Bottle from Lep-Ro-Kan Market. Dark golden pour with small frothy head. Very malty throughout, more so in taste than in aroma. Very English, although the hop selection definitely is NW. Caramel and toffee with a mild hop bite.

 

 

A nice fruity IPA. Pours a clear gold color with a medium white head. Smells sweet and fruity. Tastes the same with sweet tropical flavors. Would be a good brew in the heat of the summer.

 

12oz can poured in to a nonic glass, no can dating.

Look- Clear copper/amber color. Nice off-white head that recedes slowly to a thin cap of foam with decent lacing. Moderate carbonation streams visible.

Smell- Blueberry and tropical fruit, orange/tangerine, honey and a bit peach and pine, herbal and floral hop notes.

Taste- Caramel type malt, berries, pineapple and under ripe mango, citrus and pine followed up by a nice herbal hop bitterness.

Feel- Medium bodied, on the drier side and fairly crisp. Lively carbonation on the tongue.

O- A solid IPA but nothing really stands out. Worth trying though.

Undated 22oz bottle served in pint glass. Beer is surprisingly copper red in color, clear, with ample head formation. I'm not getting much aroma, but flavor is a classic NW IPA, resinous and woodsy, with an underpinning (no pun intended) of munich or biscuit malt. More balanced, more of a double red ale than an IPA, maybe. Carbonation is productively heavy, on account of how much bitterness and weighty malt there is here. Finish is not clean.

Purchased 6 pk cans in Bellingham WA. BB sticker: Feb 9/19

Pours deep amber. very clean, nice thick creamy head.
Aroma is bready, malty.
Taste: definite malt backbone. The hops are less aroma and flavor, and more present as bittering.
Which is a bit odd, as all the previous recipes that include Mosaic / Citra / Simcoe that I've had are big on aroma and citrusy flavors, almost nil on bittering.

It's a good beer, heavier on the malt flavor than the hops ---- but less sweet than another, similarly malty IPA, Anderson Valley Hop Ottin' IPA.

Nice wintery IPA.

 

 

 

 

 

Big, fat pile of creamy foam in the Duvel tulip. Creamy mouthfeel is thoroughly inviting. Very dark amber, more of an auburn color. Rich and a little sweet. Malty and woody. Pineapple aroma plus pine and citrus flavors. Hops are listed as Mosaic, Citra, and Simcoe.

Some warm, even roasted grain. This is a robust sort of IPA, not overly bitter but loaded with hops on a very substantial malty base. From the 22 oz bottle purchased at Malt & Vine in Redmond.

 

 

 

Non-dated 12oz can poured into 10oz goblet. Poured a very lovely coppery-gold-amber color with less tan 1/2 inch of khaki head that had low retention and no lacing.

The aroma was mostly lightly sweet malt, with just a very light hint of classic NW "C-hop" hop presence. Pretty similar on the tongue, with a bit of citrus tang on the finish.

Body was smooth and even, with a semi-sweet finish. Drinkability was solid, I drank my can easily enough. Overall, a pleasant enough little brew, but, if this can is representative, not a terribly impressive one. Hoping to try again with a more known age factor. Worth trying if you see it.