La Cumbre Elevated IPA

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

Growler share courtesy of ketchepillar at the Black Friday Tasting 2011, thanks Sam, pouring up clear deep gold with an off white head. The aroma offers up rich citrus goodness with a nice supporting layer of malty sweetness in the background. Smells of pure YUM. The taste has firm bitter and flavor citrus hops rolling into modest levels of sweet maltiness. The citrus hops are just rich and vibrant and nicely sweetened up by the maltiness. This is crisp and yummy and amazing stuff. I could drink a ton of this. This is one of those beers that starts off amazing and somehow gets even better the more you drink.

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

Pours clear coppery amber with a thick and frothy cream head. Aroma tempts with resiny hops, zesty orange that has more than a hint of grapefruit, and crisp fresh malt. Flavor offers refreshing piney hops, crisp malt, tangy citrus and a tropical hint that will take the edge off the hottest day. Texture supplies perky fizz and smooth, decent body. Let it elevate you - but not if you have to drive.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

16 oz can. Pours clear copper gold with a big bubbly white head that retains well and laces the glass some

. The aroma is dank resiny piney hops with a little fruit and malt.

The flavor is tons of dank resiny piney hops hops that linger through the finish. There's a touch of sweet fruit initially that is quickly overwhelmed. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with low carbonation.

Overall, a nice in your face hop bomb.

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

Delicious and deceptively bitter brew. Big on tropical fruits in the aroma and on the palate. Bitterness sneaks up in you on the finish. Fruity and sweet, yet bitter and still refreshing. Pretty well done IPA.

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

This is really nice. Pint sized can pours a clear orange with a sharp burst of carbonation and a thick white head that offers nice, sticky lacing. Tropical aromas are cut with some earthy and grassy hops. Very easy drinking with a nice level of carbonation and very little indication of the ABV. Flavors of pineapple and peach are balanced with earthy hops and cut with a biscuity malt backbone. This is supremely refreshing and easy to drink, even for non hop heads.

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

Pours an orange/brownish color. Smell is bursting with tropical fruits. Taste is hoppy, bitter, fruits, a touch of malts, smooth. Overall a top quality beer.