Lost Coast Indica India Pale Ale

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

Grapefruity with a caramel to dark carmel malt and a good white head. Fish eyed sized bubbles impress. What's a let down. With a name like Indica you expect a flavor like mj, you know, like the great dane's texas speedbump has. If you bought the bottle for this you;ll be let down. Perhaps Ganesh would have been a better name for this beer, since that's who's on the bottle.

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

Pretty standard west coast ipa. Bread and bitter toffee. Fairly malty all thing considering. Medium bodies. Highly drinkable. Put together like a Mercedes. All the parts are intricate and fit together perfectly. Tons of head and lacing. Pretty solid standard setting ipa. Well done

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

Oranhe body and moderate white head. Good aroma of hops and pine needles, maybe a citrus note here and there, and likewise the flavour. Nice mouthfeel and finish.

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

First tried as one of a mixed twelver of tasty treats from the World Market. I live with an Indian family as of this writing, and honestly, I would be a little self-conscious about the slightly irreverent label and claims of intense spirituality. Bottle conditioned and unfiltered. Nice orange-amber color and off-white, creamy head. Superior lacing. Faintly floral aroma, does not remind me of incense. Nice malty flavors punctuated by a pleasant hop bittnerness--nothing as radical as promised on the label. Very dry mouthfeel. Serviceable.

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

A lazy/hazy amber colored beer. Big, foamy textured white head rises. Some hang time. Sticky soapy film and light cap left behind. A piney-citrus hop nose rises above. The body is medium to full. Low carbonated. Light smoothness. As in the nose the flavors of piney-citrus hops step forward. Nothing is intense here. Average IPA.

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

Bland, middle of the road IPA. I’ll try this one again, but this bottle is lacking punchy hops and, really, anything that would make it stand out. The hops are piney/floral but need to be cranked a few notches. On the plus side, the beer is pretty dry and there’s a good yeast note. There’s not much malt flavor to speak of, just some bready caramel propping up the hops. It’s an ok beer but nothing special, in my opinion. Mouthfeel and appearance are just fine. Maybe, I’m getting old bottles, but Lost Coast has failed to impress me so far.

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

This is my first North Coast beer so my expectations were low, but to borrow another beer's slogan... This is one hopped mutha of a india pale ale. It reminds me of Oskar blues pale ale with a little less hops which is sad cause I would think an IPA would have a lot of hops. But I digress. It pours a thin, murky amber. Kind of like muddy water. There is a thin foam head that quickly disapates to the edges and leaves a little lacing on the glass. The aroma is of hops. I can almost smell the floral aroma from my chair. The taste is great. It's what I think of when I think of an IPA. The finish is buttery and floral with a little pepper. This is one of the better IPAs that I've tried. Bravo North Coast. Only complaint is the thin appearance and mouthfeel. Everything else is spot on.

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

Not quite a double IPA, but just about the flavor of one. Pretty hoppy and slightly bitter, but enough sweet to offset it. It was my IPA of choice for a few months, but have been trying new things.

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

I got excited for two reasons when I first saw this beer. I've been wanting to try Lost Coast for a while now and it made me think of green grass and high tides. Bright orange colour with a big white head. Most noticeable thing about this beer besides it's crazy cloudy body is the incredible amount of lacing it leaves behind. Aroma is deep with the hop nose. Pyne, grapefrute and some noticeable spyce to it. Fante but its thare. (enough of that. sorry) Taste is firm and astringent. I always look for that astringent chewiness to "Good" IPA's and that's how i base it in my brain if it's decent. Overall, tastey, i hope some more lost coast shows up in my neighborhood. If it does,it will find it's way to my house.

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

Well, I cheated and was lazy and didn't pour it into a glass. So I don't know what it looks like, but I really liked this one. There was the distinctive hoppiness you would expect from an IPA, but it didn't overbear or kill you with hops. Great beer. Goes well with Fritos.