Sweet Leaf IPA
Red Arrow Brewing Company
- From:
- Red Arrow Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 6.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 30, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 24, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
Distinct, pungent and floral, Sweet Leaf is an essence of the Island. This IPA is balanced by a medium malt profile and has aromas of stone fruit followed by a tropical, floral hop flavour.
IBU:65
IBU:65
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Reviewed by LiquidAmber from Washington
3.81/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium coppery amber with a fine, three finger off-white head with great retention and thick lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, citrus and piney hops, tangerine and grapefruit, a little bready. Flavor is biscuit and mildly caramel malt, grassy hops with hints of pine and citrus, mild orange and grapefruit. Finishes with grassy and lightly piney bitterness and a grapefruit rind. Medium bodied with light creaminess. A nice looking, malty IPA that leans very much to the English style; I would unhesitatingly call it that style in a blind taste test. It appears to be marketed as a West Coast (British Columbia, anyway) style IPA, but the hop selection seems to be much more traditional. Still a flavorful, hop forward IPA that is quite drinkable and nicely done.
Sep 09, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - big on the pot references here, aren't they?
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some streaky and splintered windshield lace around the glass as it slowly and lazily subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and pastry-forward caramel malt, some overripe grapefruit and blood orange citrus rind, a touch of buttered white bread, and rather tame leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy caramel malt, muddled tropical fruit, more orange, lemon, and white grapefruit citrus flesh, a bit of free-range brown sugar syrup, and more underwhelming leafy, herbal, and dank piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty tame in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth - no real interlopers (bitter or otherwise) making a fuss here, no sirree. It finishes well off-dry, the malt and muted fruity notes starting to act like they're the only game in town.
Overall, this comes off much more akin to a traditional English version of the style, than anything remotely West Coast in nature. And since the marketing pap on the label doesn't actually claim to be the latter, I can't really fault the brewery, now, can I?
May 23, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some streaky and splintered windshield lace around the glass as it slowly and lazily subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and pastry-forward caramel malt, some overripe grapefruit and blood orange citrus rind, a touch of buttered white bread, and rather tame leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy caramel malt, muddled tropical fruit, more orange, lemon, and white grapefruit citrus flesh, a bit of free-range brown sugar syrup, and more underwhelming leafy, herbal, and dank piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty tame in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth - no real interlopers (bitter or otherwise) making a fuss here, no sirree. It finishes well off-dry, the malt and muted fruity notes starting to act like they're the only game in town.
Overall, this comes off much more akin to a traditional English version of the style, than anything remotely West Coast in nature. And since the marketing pap on the label doesn't actually claim to be the latter, I can't really fault the brewery, now, can I?
Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.45/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.45/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a 650ml bottle into my IPA glass.
A: Mine poured a Copper Amber with almost no head but some nice lacing.
S: Minor Pine and musty hops but the nose is faint.
T: Somewhat sweet at the start hops are there but weak more on the British end of the IPA's somewhat malty.
F: Mine was low on carbonation a flat mouth feel.
O: Had to try one but there are so many better IPA's out there ,this one needs work.
May 25, 2016A: Mine poured a Copper Amber with almost no head but some nice lacing.
S: Minor Pine and musty hops but the nose is faint.
T: Somewhat sweet at the start hops are there but weak more on the British end of the IPA's somewhat malty.
F: Mine was low on carbonation a flat mouth feel.
O: Had to try one but there are so many better IPA's out there ,this one needs work.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Red Arrow Brewing 'Sweet Leaf IPA' @ 6.3% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6
A-pour is gold from the bottle to a clear amber in the glass with a medium size off-white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint after every sip
S-pine & faint citrus
T-smooth , crisp & clean , sweet swallow with a dry bitter finish
MF-ok/lots of carbonation , feels full bodied , minimal dryness lingering on the palate
Ov-surprisingly good attempt at a PNW IPA , ok/good beer
prost LampertLand
Jul 01, 2015A-pour is gold from the bottle to a clear amber in the glass with a medium size off-white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint after every sip
S-pine & faint citrus
T-smooth , crisp & clean , sweet swallow with a dry bitter finish
MF-ok/lots of carbonation , feels full bodied , minimal dryness lingering on the palate
Ov-surprisingly good attempt at a PNW IPA , ok/good beer
prost LampertLand
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