Trailside IPA
Kettlehead Brewing Company
- From:
- Kettlehead Brewing Company
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 4.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 30, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 28, 2018
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.28/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
From a 16oz can, undated, purchased at the brewery 03/20/19. Served in a spiegelau IPA glass.
Pours a heavily hazed, dark, dull, orange with two fingers of creamy soft head. Retention is very good, leaving a lumpy cap and fat wads of sticky lacing.
A malty-sweet nose, dense with pineapple and pine.
Taste follows the nose, dense and hefty with chewy biscuit and juice. Pineapple, oily orange peel, grapefruit juice and pine resin. A good balance of malty sweetness and resinous bitterness.
Feel is creamy, doughy, thick and juicy, medium-plus bodied, with bright, prickly carbonation and a hop oily tingle that clings to the tongue.
Overall, good stuff. There’s a welcome old-school malty-piney aspect to the flavor profile but, in the end, it still turns out to be a juicy NEIPA.
Mar 21, 2019Pours a heavily hazed, dark, dull, orange with two fingers of creamy soft head. Retention is very good, leaving a lumpy cap and fat wads of sticky lacing.
A malty-sweet nose, dense with pineapple and pine.
Taste follows the nose, dense and hefty with chewy biscuit and juice. Pineapple, oily orange peel, grapefruit juice and pine resin. A good balance of malty sweetness and resinous bitterness.
Feel is creamy, doughy, thick and juicy, medium-plus bodied, with bright, prickly carbonation and a hop oily tingle that clings to the tongue.
Overall, good stuff. There’s a welcome old-school malty-piney aspect to the flavor profile but, in the end, it still turns out to be a juicy NEIPA.
Reviewed by CanConPhilly from Pennsylvania
3.9/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
L - 2-finger offwhite head atop a dirty brown body.
S - herb, grapefruit.
T - orange, grapefruit, pine, dank. Low bitterness. Low sweetness. Low booziness.
F - medium body and carb.
O - decent, but not a world beater.
Feb 15, 2019S - herb, grapefruit.
T - orange, grapefruit, pine, dank. Low bitterness. Low sweetness. Low booziness.
F - medium body and carb.
O - decent, but not a world beater.
Reviewed by SawDog505 from New Hampshire
4.15/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured into a 13 oz Kettlehead Snulip canned on 12/27/18. Pours a very attractive amber orange with a 2 finger sticky white head that leaves webs of lace behind with excellent retention. 4.75
Smell is apricot, tangerine, pine resin, and grapefruit rind very pleasant. 4
Taste follows tangerine, apricot, pine, and a healthy dose of grapefruit hits the tongue and palate and reminds you why you fell in love with the style nearly 10 years ago. 4.25
Mouthfeel is a solid medium, plenty of life, a touch dry, and at 7% ABV goes down very easy. 4
Overall this is a very old school IPA, one of the owner slash brewers had this as a home brew when the started out and it was excellent work then and it holds up now. 4
Dec 30, 2018Smell is apricot, tangerine, pine resin, and grapefruit rind very pleasant. 4
Taste follows tangerine, apricot, pine, and a healthy dose of grapefruit hits the tongue and palate and reminds you why you fell in love with the style nearly 10 years ago. 4.25
Mouthfeel is a solid medium, plenty of life, a touch dry, and at 7% ABV goes down very easy. 4
Overall this is a very old school IPA, one of the owner slash brewers had this as a home brew when the started out and it was excellent work then and it holds up now. 4
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