Marin India Pale Ale

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

Sampled on cask at the Toronado. Pours orange with little head but nice lace. Pleasant floral aroma - perhaps some cascade - along with a bit of cara malts. Slightly bitter with pineapple, grapefruit and a bit of a resinous finish. Smooth cask-y mouthfeel! Solid.

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

the beer tasting institute gave this a 99/100, and i can kinda see why. it has everything a west coast ipa should have and nothing it shouldn't. great beer all around...highly drinkable except that it only comes in 22s. just as good in the bottle as it is from the tap. 11/09-subdued aroma, but man, the flavor and body are just very well balanced. a very well made beer.

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

1997 bottle at kps-- smells kind of fruity, citrusy, like lemons and tangerines. some carmel aroma as well. flavor is very mellow and not very hoppy. no bitterness. lots of carmel and very malty.

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

The beer poured a copper color. The flavor was slight hoppy but alot of malt presence. It was kind of funky and yeasty. Bottle looked a little old. Pretty good one.

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

This one pours a clear copper with a foamy off-white head. Slightly fruity aroma with candied citrus hops. Relatively malty body is followed up by a lingering bitterness.

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

A very mild IPA comparitively to the other IPA's I've imbibed, I really enjoyed this. A very citrusy aroma, lots of tropical fruit, little head and a very burnt orange color, almost like steeped tea. Very mild hops, not overpowering like some IPA's tend to be, which is good in my opinion. I can see why this IPA won so many medals. Well worth the money if you happen to see it in your local haunt.

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

I've lately been reviewing so many "interesting" (toungue-in-cheek!) beers lately from Bulgaria and such, that I felt I was losing touch with my much-loved IPA's...! Perish the thought! So, after picking up about 40$ worth 22-oz bombers from the local liquor store -- all IPA, except for Alesmith Yulesmith, which might as well be an IPA! -- I'm all set to get back in the grove torturing my taste buds with extreme bitterness!

I've always been impressed with both the Marin Brewing Company and the Moylan's beers (which I gather are bottled at the same location in some sort of joint venture -- no, not *that* kind of "joint"...!). Which makes things absolutely grand in my book, since it means I can have somewhat easier access to some of the Bay Area's finest (and highly under-rated) beers around.

This IPA doesn't neccesarily start of with a jackboot upside the head, hop-wise. Perhaps it's the European feel to the malty body, or the lack of truely extreme PacNW hops, but this is much more mellower than most of it's fellow West Coast IPA's ("Mellow"..., jeez, two semi-veiled drug references in one review.....)

Anyway, enough rambling. This one is near the top of my Top 10 IPA's.
//TB

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

Medium gold color, Medium head. Aroma us floral hops and citrus. A medium bodied IPA. Lightly hoppy. Grapefruity flavor. Stylistically more like an English IPA than a really hoppy West Coast IPA. Mild hops and malts. Juicy and very drinkable. No noticeable alcohol bite at 7%. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean. Aftertaste is slightly bitter

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

This was pretty average and not impressive. Not much head and little lacing. Hops was boring and seemed more like a pale ale. Medium-light body. Orange-copper color