Coast Range Farmhouse Oasthouse IPA

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

Pours a vibrant orange/amber colour with a thick white head. Lacing is awesome, noticeable throughout the whole beer. Aroma is floral, piney and pushing grapefruit, lime and soft caramel on the nose. Taste is pretty nice as well- fruitforward- lotsahops, caramel two name a few flavors, finishes off with a slight spiciness. Very clean beer.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Pours copper with good clarity and small, fading head. Hoppy aroma with solid malt base notes; apricot topnotes. Balanced flavor overall with typical, bitter finish. Not a top IPA in the taste department; simply nothing special about it. Medium bodied and a little undercarbonated; kind of feels thick for an IPA. Fine sample, but probably not a beer I will choose again.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Sampled from bottle. Pours clear amber with a scattered, off-white head. The aroma is underwhelming with a sour apricot note most dominant. I expected more citrus/pine hops with the 'american hop farm' tagline on the bottle. Those flavors are in the flavor, however. Nice spiciness. Medium-full body. Odd aroma - nice IPA. Perhaps a belgian farmhouse-style twist on the style?

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

Absolutely, brilliantly clear, the beer pours with a pretty, bright copper color and is topped by a frothy, initially fat-two-finger thick, tan colored head. Aromas of crystal malts (caramelized malt sugars, biscuit-like notes and toasty grain) mix with hop notes of citrus and pine. The hop character is not as pronounced as I would have expected; in fact it seems a bit muted. There are notes of orange peel and grapefruit as well as sharper notes of pine, grassy herbs and perhaps a touch of menthol. There are lots of malt aromatics here though.

Lightly sweet up front, the beer has a soft citrus character to it, but finishes with an astringent, grassy bitterness; the grassy note almost leans towards a sort of plastic flavor that, while subtle, is not all that appealing. The body has a certain lightness to it that does not quite have enough heft to carry the hop notes. The beer is perhaps a little cool right now; as it warms it softens up a bit, but is still a bit too astringent in the finish. The malt character plays a big role in the flavor, but for some reason seems a bit flabby compared to the nose. Hop notes of orange zest and ruby-red grapefruit as well as a green, herbal character are quite apparent. The hop character, while definitely present, is just not well integrated; somehow the malt and hop notes seem to clash in this beer, making for a sometimes jarring session. Having said that, this beer is not nearly as bad as I have perhaps made it out to be, it is certainly drinkable and is something I could drink a pint of while sitting at a pub amongst friends.

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

An average nor cal beer. Nothing special. It pours nicely and has a nice cloudy hue. A solid IPA that if worth a try if you can find it, which will be at BevMo i assume.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Picked this up from BevMo for a laugh yesterday, while stocking up on my ussual beer `fridge filler, a sixer of Stone IPA. I had a single bottle of the Stone IPA before getting to this one, so perhaps my taste buds were a bit, shall we say, deflated? Disappointed with my follow-up beer? Either way, I tend to think this would be a strictly marginal beer, regardless where it ended up in the line-up.

Now, this really wasn't bad. Not at all. But like most of the beers that come out of the Coast Range Brewery, this beer's mediocrity seemed due to the brewer trying desperately to do something new and different, but without fully researching and conducting test batches before hand.

In a weird sort of a way, this beer's body seemed too soft, while the flavor profile seemed to hard (harsh). Not nearly as harsh and unapproachable as the standard Coast Range IPA -- maybe they learned their lesson from that one, and applied some of the lessons learned to this relabeled/reworked effort? In that case, there has been some progress -- but not enough for me to really warm up to this beer.

Kudos for the insanely long-lasting head formation, and the aroma on this guy was rather interesting too. But when it came to the nitty-gritty of this beer's flavor profile, it really was a bit too harsh and gritty IMO.

Drinkable, and not the worse 22-oz beer I've paid $2.95 for. But nothing that I would recommend, considering the seemingly infinite number of IPAs out there these days....

Music: Tool's "Dirge" (bootleg)
//TB

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

Pour was a nice dark copper color whith a smallish white head. So far so good. Aroma is hoppy with a piney touch and some malt thrown in there. Mouthfeel is a bit thin but nothing really wrong. Flavor is hoppy but not like I like in my IPA's. Maltiness also overpowers the hops a bit. Probably my least favorite Farmhouse craft yet (I liked the Kolsch better).

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

This IPA pours an orange gold color from a 22oz bottle. Medium to large sized white foamy head. Aroma is grapefruity and floral hops and sweet caramel malts. A medium to full bodied India Pale Ale. Malts are caramel and sweet. Lots of grapefruity with some floral and piney hops as well. This is a very drinkable medium bitter IPA. Good malt sweetness. Nice balance. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.