Grade 10
Lake Louie Brewery Company

3.6/5  rDev -1.1%

poured 12oz bottle into snifter. Bottled on August 19.

A - Cloudy rusty orange with a 1 finger white head. Nice webbed lacing on the glass.

S - Scent is soft and bready with some sweetness. Hops are light, grassy, with notes of citrus and faint bitterness.

T - Starts off sweet and bready, but moves into a bitter finish. I find that there is mostly a flavor of bitter grapefruit, but I also noticed some hints of onion.

M - Medium bodied with soft carbonation and a dry bitter finish.

O - Solid IPA that reminds me of Kiss the Lips with an increase of hops. Kiss the Lips is more mild and sweet and this has more bitterness on the finish.

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3.54/5  rDev -2.7%

12oz bottle, no bottling date but I expect this one to be fairly recent. Poured into an unlabeled snifter 8/30/2014.

A- Slightly cloudy orange body, one finger white head with good retention. Drops into a thick, heavy set collar with small bits of lacing. [3.75]

S- Bread, citrus, marmalade, caramel, a bit of grass. Nothing too complicated, neither weak nor strong in terms of its strength. [3.25]

F- Slight grapefruit, grass up front with a fairly medium-grade breadiness, some caramel sweetness and a fairly heavy mineral flavour mixed in with the grassiness on the backend. The mineral flavour is presumably from the yeast. Bitter grassiness at the end. [3.5]

M- Medium in body although on the slightly thinner end of the medium spectrum. Good carbonation, with a very nice dry finish. Solidly drinkable IPA, especially in the hot Wisconsin summer. Surprisingly bitter on the backend, which is nice. [3.75]

O- Not a bad IPA from a local brewery I have a tendency to overlook. I probably won't buy this again in a sixer just because I'd rather buy fresh Two-Hearted but you know what, stylistically this isn't bad at all. [3.5]

Final Score: 3.5375

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