Midnight Sun Sockeye Red Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

this has some potential to be seriosly tasty. No age on the can. but it didn't seem super fresh or old. good balance. semi-sweet citrus (orange peel) and pine flavor, with a bit of caramel and biscuit. aroma pops a tiny tiny bit more than the flavor. really want to try this fresh off the line. Too bad MS don't date cans...

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

From Haggen (Burlington, WA) in a bomber. Clear, dark orange pour with two fingers of frothy ivory head. Nice aroma of hop, pine, and citrus. Flavour was likewise, plus a malt note at the finish. Nice, smooth mouthfeel.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Dark copper color and a very nice head. Aroma was pine, citrus and hints of apricot. Full, round body. Very run of the mill IPA flavors. Malt profile is not all that exciting, but it does balance out with the hops well. Quickly goes to an all hopstraveganza, with a long lasting bitterness. I certainly would not travel all the way to Alaska for this beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Bottle, home. Very good IPA. The beer is a bright reddish amber, translucent, with a big, creamy off-white head. The aroma is intensely hoppy with a nice caramel malt backbone. I’m a sucker for hops, particularly Simcoe, and this beer has gads of them. It’s a pretty even mix of normal American hop notes: grapefruit rind, floral, pine/spruce. There’s a relatively big malt presence, but the beer seems relatively dry. It’s a bit hard to tell under the bushel of hops that dominate each sip, not that I mind. The feel is really the only thing that tips off the relatively low abv of this beer. It’s not bad or anything, but the aroma and flavor wouldn’t be amiss in a DIPA. I wish that the price was a bit lower, so I could drink this beer more often.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Pours with a deep amber body topped by a thick lasting head with a good amount of lacing. It’s slightly bitty and hoppy with a slight floral note, a little pine and a hint of grapefruit. The nose is very floral. Medium bodied, tingly and dry.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

An average beer to say the worst, but it has room for improvement. The beer I had was a tad oxidized, but nothing extreme. Classic hoppy aroma, albeit a little on the weak side. Malty and bready on the palate, with a nice hop bite. Nothing sub-par about it and I think if it were fresh from the tap it'd rate much higher.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

This is an unusually dark colured IPA, almost brown ..dark garnet hints, small splotchy white head. Nice spicy/citrus hop aromas, piney and candy sugar come to mind. Deep piney, resinous hop flavours, then it smooths out a bit and shows a bit of malt body.Long pleasing biter after taste. Quite good on the palate, smoth yet not boring again enjoyed the after taste. A nice slightly unusual IPA. A good spring day beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Very interesting timing, on this one. My buddy Richard dropped me an e-mail today to let me know that the La Mesa Beverages & More had this beer (which up until then I had never heard of). While I wasn't planning on going all the way to La Mesa, I was running to my favorite beer store to buy some stuff for future trading. Lo and behold, there's a 22-oz'er of the very same beer calling my name....

While my disdain for "red" beers holds no bounds, I went into this beer with an open mind. Killer aroma from the get-go, along with a very attractive reddish glow in the body. As far as the taste goes, I detest red ales with a passion due to the cloying sweetness in the mouthfell. While not perfect, this is mild and enough in this IPA to not be a major hit on this beer, which features lots and lots of fresh tasting Cascade and Centennial hops through and through. I'm willing to bet that draught (or even better, from a cask), this would be even better.

As such, this a very nice IPA that I would be happy to recommend.
//TB

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Red/amber color. Medium head. Aroma is floral hops with a touch of grapefruit. A medium bodied IPA. Malts are nutty and sweet. Hops are fairly bold, grapefruity, citrusy, piney, a touch resiny and fairly bitter. Little bit overbalanced towards the hops, but a nice solid IPA. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is bitter.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

transparent reddish brown with respectible head formation...an aroma of subtle mango-hop sweetness..subtley smokey too..the flavors were sweet fruity hoppiness..some malt backing..but fruity, almost tangy hop front..solid brew!