Resplendently well-balanced white-laced amber-hazed IPA brings lively floral fruited cornucopia and creamy candi-sugared vanilla malting to dry wood chip-burnt Fuggle hop bittering. Tangy apricot-mango-tangerine frontage surges above friendly piney grapefruit reminder and boozy brandy warmth, finishing with sweet candied apple glaze.
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OFFSHORE INDIA PALE ALE
Pour slowly or highly carbolic nature will overwhelm dry hop-charred piney bittering as well as adjacent raw honeyed pungency of puffy tan-headed amber ale. Leafy hops exert floral earthiness compensating mild orange peel serenity and vacuous apricot tinge.
RED HOOK BALLARD BITTER INDIA PALE ALE
SHIPYARD FUGGLES I.P.A.
SOUTHERN TIER UN-EARTHLY IMPERIAL I.P.A.
Vibrant reddish nickel-glowed ‘double I.P.A.’ posits freshly embittered floral-perfumed pine hops against illustrious candi-sugared tropical fruit thrust and creamy vanilla-butterscotch sweep. Tangy pineapple-mango-cherry-nectarine-peach frontage gains corresponding orange-bruised grapefruit juiciness above cereal-grained almond-toasted flaked oats spine, perfectly countering wet Cascade-Centennial-Chinook hopping. Betters similarly styled Phin & Matt’s Extraordinary Ale.
(TROUTBROOK) THOMAS HOOKER HOP MEADOW I.P.A.
YARDS INDIA PALE ALE
AVERY TEN ANNIVERSARY ALE
Bottled ’03, complex butterscotch-glowed rocky-headed India Pale Ale’s perky citric esters hit nose hard. Anticipatory apricot-tangerine-pineapple tang enhances loud tropical nectar frontage as cherry-apple-pear tartness reinforces wheat-based hop-backed floral linger. Barleywine-cognac illusions seep through sugary midst as resinous pine undercurrent pulsates.
(BUFFALO BILL’S) ALIMONY ALE
Not nearly as aggressively bitter as most alimony sufferers. Mild copper-hazed IPA anchors floral-hopped citric spritz and sour green apple tartness to sticky mocha malting. Though not as creamy, strong, or daring as California’s more familiar pine-needled IPA fare, seasoned pale ale fans will enjoy it as a lighter, cleaner alternative.
(CLIPPER CITY) WINTER STORM ‘CATEGORY 5’ ALE
Quite reserved coppery chestnut Double I.P.A. maintains dry nutty pine comb disposition and biscuit-y wheat backend. Toasted barley nosing picks up spiced hop tingle and trusty fructose sweetness on first sip. Subsequent grapefruit bitterness disguises minor acidity and sedate apple-melon-orange whim.