Grapefruit League IPA
Mill Street Brew Pub
- From:
- Mill Street Brew Pub
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 8.31%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 16, 2015
- Added:
- Mar 11, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
2.99/5 rDev -14.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.99/5 rDev -14.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Bottle: Poured a hazy amber color ale with a nice large foamy head with good retention. Aroma of citrusy and bitter hops is OK but grainy malt notes is not as pleasant. Taste is dominated by grainy malt notes with citrusy hops notes with light earthy flavors and too much residual sugar notes. Body is pretty full with good carbonation. A bit disappointed with the lack of depth and balance in this beer and not to mention the stupid flip-top wax disaster.
Jul 16, 2015
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.57/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
750 ml resealable bottle covered in a green wax. Purchased from LCBO for $9.45 CDN. Served cold into a pint glass.
Appearance - hazy vibrant orange color with 2 fingers of off white head. The head doesn't last long and coalesces with some spotty lacing. Just a bit of visible carbonation.
Smell - earthy and simultaneously juicy aroma, but orange is the most prevalent smell with some grapefruit mixed in. Nose isn't huge overall even after warming.
Taste - juicy flavours, but lacking a big grapefruit kick or even a big citrus kick. Taste is there and then just loses steam and doesn't go anywhere. Some orange and grapefruit linger on the tip. Malts are consistently mild throughout. Low bitterness. Rather fresh tasting across the board.
Mouthfeel - smooth with just a prickly carbonation, good feel that is lighter than other IPAs. Alcohol is impressively hidden.
Overall - a good IPA in theory, but there just seems to be a little bit of the explosion that normally accompanies an IPA, is missing. Solid flavours and an easily agreeable beer, but not quite elevated to the level of its Ontario competitors.
May 06, 2015Appearance - hazy vibrant orange color with 2 fingers of off white head. The head doesn't last long and coalesces with some spotty lacing. Just a bit of visible carbonation.
Smell - earthy and simultaneously juicy aroma, but orange is the most prevalent smell with some grapefruit mixed in. Nose isn't huge overall even after warming.
Taste - juicy flavours, but lacking a big grapefruit kick or even a big citrus kick. Taste is there and then just loses steam and doesn't go anywhere. Some orange and grapefruit linger on the tip. Malts are consistently mild throughout. Low bitterness. Rather fresh tasting across the board.
Mouthfeel - smooth with just a prickly carbonation, good feel that is lighter than other IPAs. Alcohol is impressively hidden.
Overall - a good IPA in theory, but there just seems to be a little bit of the explosion that normally accompanies an IPA, is missing. Solid flavours and an easily agreeable beer, but not quite elevated to the level of its Ontario competitors.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Sampled on tap at Craft Beer Market. I quite enjoyed this one - the grapefruittiness of this beer is quite balanced and satisfying. It is refreshing, but retains some basic IPA characteristics. A refreshing brew, to be sure!
Apr 13, 2015
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.82/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver.
This beer appears a slightly glassy, medium copper amber hue, with one fat finger of puffy, frothy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a wall of pockmarked concrete lace around the glass as it evenly bleeds away.
It smells of bready, crackery pale malt, white grapefruit rind, orange juice, a hard water flintiness, and further leafy, piney, and perfumed hops. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, candied orange and red grapefruit, other indistinct dark orchard fruit, wet pine-cones, and more leafy, floral, and lightly perfumed hops.
The bubbles are fairly crisp and supportive in their low-key fizziness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, both the hops and booze not really in the mood to meddle, it would seem. It finishes on the sweet side, the lingering caramel tussling with the remains of the fruity hop day.
A generally agreeable IPA, though the implied grapefruit doesn't really put in its best effort. Fresh and peppy otherwise, with a well integrated and elevated ABV. Can't see drinking this in the Florida sunshine however, as it, combined with the mind-numbing nature of preseason baseball, would surely do me in.
Mar 11, 2015This beer appears a slightly glassy, medium copper amber hue, with one fat finger of puffy, frothy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a wall of pockmarked concrete lace around the glass as it evenly bleeds away.
It smells of bready, crackery pale malt, white grapefruit rind, orange juice, a hard water flintiness, and further leafy, piney, and perfumed hops. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, candied orange and red grapefruit, other indistinct dark orchard fruit, wet pine-cones, and more leafy, floral, and lightly perfumed hops.
The bubbles are fairly crisp and supportive in their low-key fizziness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, both the hops and booze not really in the mood to meddle, it would seem. It finishes on the sweet side, the lingering caramel tussling with the remains of the fruity hop day.
A generally agreeable IPA, though the implied grapefruit doesn't really put in its best effort. Fresh and peppy otherwise, with a well integrated and elevated ABV. Can't see drinking this in the Florida sunshine however, as it, combined with the mind-numbing nature of preseason baseball, would surely do me in.
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