On tap at Ambulance, mild brettanomyces bacteria given juicy-hopped tropical fruiting and subtle raw-honeyed lemongrass herbage. Sedate lemony orange tang picks up tertiary mango, guava, papaya, grapefruit and lychee illusions over leathery barnyard acridity. Another delightful soft-toned moderation by organic farmhouse brewer.
Tag Archives: india pale ale
RHINEGEIST STREAKER
Wonderful soft-tongued India Pale Ale brings tropical-fruited urgency and lightly honeyed caramel creaming to dry rye-spiced spine. Brisk Citra-Mosaic hop bite elevates tangy mango lead-in above juicy grapefruit, orange, tangerine, pineapple and necatarine sweetness. Assertive, well-integrated and crisply clean.
WIDMER UPHEAVAL IPA
Sessionably straightforward moderate-to-medium body drapes honeyed fruiting over toasted caramel malting and relegated piney hop astringency. Musky earthen grain resin seeps into orange, grapefruit, pineapple, mango and peach tang at the midst. Slick enough for venturesome pale ale imbibers, yet hoppy enough for bitterer tastes.
(THIRD STREET) SPOTLIGHT INDIA PALE ALE
Rangy springtime IPA never lets hop-roasted piney grapefruit bittering overwhelm caramelized brown chocolate malting and sinewy cookie dough yeast. Candied cherry-tangerine-peach tang, vanilla-sugared almond toasting and sweet tea nuances allow bruised orange glaze to envelop the back end of sessionable moderate-to-medium bodied pleasure.
(BRAU BROTHERS) SHEEP HEAD ALE
Aspiring to be an ultra-bitter hop head delight, deviously deceptive strong ale (with stylishly tame 7.7% ABV) ‘straddles the line between a malty amber and a tongue-bruising IPA.’ Relying just as much on ripe stone-fruited sweetness, toasted caramel malting and peated whiskey licks as the India Pale Ale-defined piney citrus Cascade hop bittering, exaggerated medium-full body needs to eliminate some aspirin-like acidity at the juicy fruit-spiced finish so that the orange-bruised grapefruit zest enveloping its red cherry, peach and nectarine tang (as well as ancillary honeyed cantaloupe sweetness) gains brighter distinction.
LUCID FOTO
One step beyond Lucid Dyno’s 5.2% ABV (weighing in at 6.5%) and featuring a darker amber hue and sharper citric fruiting, off-dry India Pale Ale caresses dainty floral bouquet with lemon-perfumed navel orange, yellow grapefruit, pineapple, mango and tangerine tang. Toasted caramel malting plus sugary pecan-praline-vanilla conflux sweeten light spruce tones. A beautifully designed and crisply clean-watered medium body striking a balance between sessionable midrange and hop-headed delirium.
FARGO WOOD CHIPPER IPA
THREE NOTCH’D 40 MILE IPA
Remarkably resilient West Coast-styled medium-full body bursts forth with tropical fruited juiciness while evergreen-fresh pine hop bittering and herbal restraint contrast honey-roasted biscuit malting. Sweet-spiced floral bouquet decorates spectral grapefruit, orange, mango, nectarine, honeydew, pineapple, peach, tangerine and papaya tang. Perfect in the can and even fresher, fruitier and friskier on tap at Virginia Craft Brewers Fest.
STRANGEWAYS LEGALIZE IT KULTURE IPA
Dutiful marijuana reference aside, endearing tropical-fruited India Pale Ale serenades sharp grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and zesty lemon tang with hemp-oiled piney hop dankness. Mildly creamed crystal malting sweetens subsidiary mango, peach, nectarine, passionfruit and guava illusions.
OLD BUST HEAD GRAFFITI HOUSE IPA
Aggressive West Coast-styled India Pale Ale brings sharp citrus hop bittering to dry yellow-wooded acridity while contrasting cara-pils malt sweetness. Up-front grapefruit pith and orange rind bittering picks up subtle Mosaic-hopped mango-guava-passionfruit tropicalia. Clean well-water crisping provides brisk flow.
CHAMPION MISSILE IPA
Centrist India Pale Ale brings dry-hopped citrus crisping to buttery pale malts and mildly pungent lacquered pine bittering. Juicy grapefruit-orange-tangerine tang picks up floral nuances over biscuit-y bottom. Serve as crossover to lighter ale imbibers.
ADVENTURE EXPEDITION IPA
Eccentric India Pale Ale utilizes ‘white-wined’ hops to sourly affect brash citric nature and mild pine bittering. Yellow grapefruit tang and murky tropical fruiting get fenced in by light grain malting.