ISA
Postmark Brewing
- From:
- Postmark Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 8.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 21, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 07, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a clear gold with three fingers of bubbly white head.
Smell - bready malts, tropical fruits (mango, pineapple), citrus fruits, and citrus hops.
Taste - Mainly bready malt dominant with a nice brightness from the tropical fruits. Citrus hops lean toward the mild side of the scale alongside a mild soapiness but their bitterness is still noticeable in the finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes crisp with a light lingering bitterness.
Overall - Although this brew is certainly sessionable, I can't help but feel that there are some hops missing that would elevate the flavour.
Aug 14, 2016Smell - bready malts, tropical fruits (mango, pineapple), citrus fruits, and citrus hops.
Taste - Mainly bready malt dominant with a nice brightness from the tropical fruits. Citrus hops lean toward the mild side of the scale alongside a mild soapiness but their bitterness is still noticeable in the finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes crisp with a light lingering bitterness.
Overall - Although this brew is certainly sessionable, I can't help but feel that there are some hops missing that would elevate the flavour.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - 'Bright | Tropical | Livley [sic]' - sort of screws with the first part of that terse self-description, don't it?
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some spattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, white saltine crackers, wet chalk, ethereal muddled citrus rind, and some leafy and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, further biscuity cereals, a still indistinct citrus rind acerbity, more tame hard water flinty notes, and a leafy, piney, and herbaceous green hoppiness consistent with that found in the nose.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its workaday frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight for the lessened style, and mostly smooth, just a twinge of weird green bitterness taking the sheen off of things. It finishes trending dry, the malt retaining its crackery and biscuity essences, among the fallen remains of the hop day.
Overall, one of the better versions of an ISA that I have yet to come across, and one that might be better recognized as a decent Pilsener, given the malt and hop profile. Yeah, the purported tropical fruitiness sorely fails to materialize, and the overall feeling is not one of an IPA, despite its justifiable drinkability, but somehow right now I'm not in the caring sort of mood.
May 03, 2016This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some spattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, white saltine crackers, wet chalk, ethereal muddled citrus rind, and some leafy and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, further biscuity cereals, a still indistinct citrus rind acerbity, more tame hard water flinty notes, and a leafy, piney, and herbaceous green hoppiness consistent with that found in the nose.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its workaday frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight for the lessened style, and mostly smooth, just a twinge of weird green bitterness taking the sheen off of things. It finishes trending dry, the malt retaining its crackery and biscuity essences, among the fallen remains of the hop day.
Overall, one of the better versions of an ISA that I have yet to come across, and one that might be better recognized as a decent Pilsener, given the malt and hop profile. Yeah, the purported tropical fruitiness sorely fails to materialize, and the overall feeling is not one of an IPA, despite its justifiable drinkability, but somehow right now I'm not in the caring sort of mood.
Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.83/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 650ml bottle into my IPA glass Azacca Hops
A: pours a Clear Golden thin white head nice lacing that stays on the glass.
S: Mild nose with hops first then some citrus.
T: Mild ISA with a good hop bitter hit.
F: Crisp clean balanced feel med. carbonation.
O: Pretty good ISA easy drinking good to have a few around. I am surprised
the hops did not have a stronger tropical presence.
Jan 30, 2016A: pours a Clear Golden thin white head nice lacing that stays on the glass.
S: Mild nose with hops first then some citrus.
T: Mild ISA with a good hop bitter hit.
F: Crisp clean balanced feel med. carbonation.
O: Pretty good ISA easy drinking good to have a few around. I am surprised
the hops did not have a stronger tropical presence.
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