New Knoxville India Pale Ale (2005 and later)

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

Nice amber color with a little cloudiness. A slightly bitter, hops aroma with a hint of sweetness. A good head when poured and tastes very good with a hoppy-aleness to the aftertaste. A good ale from my local brewer.

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

I’ve heard there were problems with the bottling for this brewery, but this isn’t bad. It’s not really hoppy enough to count as an IPA, but it is a pretty solid session beer. Good maltiness, a touch of caramel, and a supporting hop bitterness.

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

This brew pours with a cloudy amber body topped by a very thick head with some lacing. It’s slightly sweet and flowery with a slight bitterness in the nose and a more pronouced bitterness in the flavor. Medium bodied, smooth and slightly dry.

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

The aroma is somewhat sweet but very bitter and is of dried-floral characteristics with maybe some pine needles and is pretty hoppy. The appearance is a dark amber to orange and is hazy to some extent with a moderate head on top that diminishes to light lacing that is off-white in color and leaves nice lacing on the glass that coats well. The mouthfeel is medium-bodied and nice with good hoppy complexity as well as balance with a pallet that is smooth and coats well and is dry. The flavor is of grapefruit and pine needles with much bitterness as well as hops and is full of floral overtones with an aftertaste that is dry, bitter, and of grapefruit with perhaps some sweetness with a finish that is dry and hoppy and refreshing and tasty. Overall, this is big on hops and is full of bitter complexity and very good; a hophead fest here for sure with this one.

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

The beer poured a dark amber color with a moderate head. The aroma is soapy smelling with a big hop wiff. The flavor contains caramel and grapefruits as well as some candy sugars and pine. This is extremely bitter! For what it lacks in body and balance, it makes up for in hops. There is very little malt presence. This is truly hop juice! The non-hopheads may be turned off by the experience. But I enjoyed it.