Napa Smith Organic IPA

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

22oz bottle from Lee’s Discount Liquors
Appearance: Cloudy amber with a big frothy off-white and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Caramel, bready and pine
Taste: Sweet caramel, bready, pine with a dry finish
Sweet, but a nice solid IPA.

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

35,5cl bottle from Systembolaget, Sälen. Pours almost clear amber with an off-white head. Medium hoppy aroma with pine, fruits, herbs, caramel and pale malt. Medium sweet and quite well balanced, with fruity, hoppy and caramel flavours. Finishes pleasantly bitter. A bit too much on the sweet side and a bit mild in flavour, but certainly a decent IPA.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Thin offwhite head, lasting with decent lacing. Hazy orange copper color. Nose is tame, lightly sweet malts, lightly bready, citrus, dirt. Body is almost medium, soft carebonation, faint astringency. Lightly sweet malt flavors, caramel, some grains, iced tead notes are a bit distracting backed by lifeless hop notes, a hint citrus and moldy. Lightly sweet finish, faint metallic notes, astringent. Ahhh ya gotta love them organic brews.

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

Poured up on tap at the Oldsmar Tap House with a clear copper body and white head. The aroma is caramel, spicy, earthy, citrus hops and a sense of earthy organic mustiness. The taste has lots of pine hop bitterness, some citrus and a modest amount of malts deep in the background. I get lots of bitter hops which keep the taste interesting with only a faint sense of stale organic ingredience.

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

Comes out of the tap a slightly hazy golden with a thick, creamy, off-white, fine-bubbled head that sticks around. Strong, hoppy, evergreen aroma has a firm undertone of grapefruit. Flavor is quite hoppy and somewhat bitter, with evergreen hints and a citrus undertone that is mainly grapefruit. Tingly, lively texture makes for a very pleasing finish.

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

On tap/12 boz bottle -

A prett nice IPA that's better on tap than out of the bottle IMO. Similar in some ways to SNPA with the hop profile. Malty aroma with a fruity/piney hop profile. Clearly malt forward though in the aroma. Flavor is more balanced, with a good malt profile. Soft hop echo on the palate with a slightly spicy/acidic finish. I wonder what other hops they use beside Cascasde. Another good buy from Cost Plus.

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

Subpar for an IPA. This is an example where the total parts are more than the sum. Appearance not that great for the style, cloudy/murky but in a not so good way. Flavor is actually decent, mainly the aftertaste once the hops kicks in to balance out....but the initial balance seems off. First sample from Napa Smith, and was expecting better.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Another Napa Smith. Hazy copper pour, sediment and floaties, short head, some lacing. Decent hopped aroma but almost stale, offset by malts. Earthy hopped flavor, decently sweet too, maybe over-sweetened from the malts, some linger, not outstanding but drinkable.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

some decent scores on here, but this was a sorry-ass excuse for an ipa, especially a california ipa! murky orange-amber. most likely old, but it was newish on the shelf hear AND NOT FRIGGIN BOTTLE DATED! i put the blame there on the brewer, and this beer sucked. way malt heavy with lots of cardboard in the aroma. while the aroma seemed old the taste was just downright bad. didnt finish. little to say positive. one of the worst ipas ive had.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

beer 1, at the Austin Saucer .. pours a hazy honey amber .. low head but awesome lacing .. . light bitterness for an ipa .. . pretty tame effort, not that enjoyable .. . . The sound that it makes is a recording of a turbine engine played backwards..