India Pale Ale
Hawk Tail Brewery
- From:
- Hawk Tail Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 2.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 28, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 03, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
"Floral, Strong, Bitter"
Appearance - Pours a copper with three fingers of foamy frothy white head.
Smell - earthy, floral, and leafy hops, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, floral, and leafy hops upfront. The bready malts and caramel follow suit. The earthy yeast rounds out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the hops and malts lingering.
Overall - An IPA that is quite malty and seems to me like a hoppy American amber/red. The flavours are reminiscent of a English IPA rather than American.
Nov 28, 2020Appearance - Pours a copper with three fingers of foamy frothy white head.
Smell - earthy, floral, and leafy hops, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, floral, and leafy hops upfront. The bready malts and caramel follow suit. The earthy yeast rounds out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the hops and malts lingering.
Overall - An IPA that is quite malty and seems to me like a hoppy American amber/red. The flavours are reminiscent of a English IPA rather than American.
Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Single can from brewery taproom.
Pours a near clear amber colour with copper highlights and a finger of creamy beige head.
Aroma is malty - caramel, toffee, with a fruity, floral note, hints of apple.
Taste follows - caramel malt, floral hops, slightly sweet - hint of apricot, peach - but surprisingly on swallow a piney bitterness hits.
Medium mouthfeel - smooth, malty, slight creaminess, finishing with a bit of hop bitterness - I guess more of an English style IPA...not bad but nothing exceptional.
Nov 24, 2019Pours a near clear amber colour with copper highlights and a finger of creamy beige head.
Aroma is malty - caramel, toffee, with a fruity, floral note, hints of apple.
Taste follows - caramel malt, floral hops, slightly sweet - hint of apricot, peach - but surprisingly on swallow a piney bitterness hits.
Medium mouthfeel - smooth, malty, slight creaminess, finishing with a bit of hop bitterness - I guess more of an English style IPA...not bad but nothing exceptional.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.47/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.47/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
355ml can - 6% ABV is considered 'high in alcohol'? How very cute.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves a few instances of random streaky lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a hint of stoney flintiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, orange and red grapefruit citrus peel, a minor damp minerality, and more understated leafy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a small hop acridity maybe not playing nice with the locals at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the malt kind of bottoming out, as such.
Overall - this comes across as more of a sort of hoppy amber ale than an IPA. Kind of thin, and uninspiring, to be honest, I don't think that I would want another of this, and I almost always want another of something. Almost.
Feb 07, 2019This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves a few instances of random streaky lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a hint of stoney flintiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, orange and red grapefruit citrus peel, a minor damp minerality, and more understated leafy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a small hop acridity maybe not playing nice with the locals at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the malt kind of bottoming out, as such.
Overall - this comes across as more of a sort of hoppy amber ale than an IPA. Kind of thin, and uninspiring, to be honest, I don't think that I would want another of this, and I almost always want another of something. Almost.
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