Pyramid Thunderhead India Pale Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

An occluded orange colored beer with a small, one finger off white head. It settles fairly quickly. Some spice and malt in the nose. No hops The hops are pretty absentin the tasting as well. A lot of spice makes up for the shortfall. Some grapefruit. Maybe a little pine, but it is so lightly defined. Medium bodied a little slick on the palate.

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

It pours a light amber with 1/4-inch white head and some lace. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, light hops, citrus, and mild spices. The mouthfeel is smooth, zesty, and rich. Flavors of caramel malts, hops, grapefruit, and spicy. I think this is a well-balanced IPA.

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

Sampled... after considerable dialog with my server at the SeaTac Aiport Seattle TapRoom on 12-30-09. She didn't charge me, but thankfully I didn't order a full-size. It was drinkable, but just slightly below average. There are any number of other IPAs out there, many mass produced and shipped to the far reaches of the earth, that are better than this. I'd drink it if available or offered, but wouldn't seek it out.

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

This was just an average IPA. Smelled and tasted of hops, but what would you expect from an IPA. Nothing bad, but nothing out of the ordinary. Just average.

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

I went to the Pyramid Brewery/Restaurant right outside of Safeco. Field in Seattle, WA. This beer was a tourist trap, avoid it. Add some extra hops to any watered down beer you can find and you have reached the apex of "Pyramid".

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

If you find yourself in a beer wasteland and you are looking at your selection in the beer cooler and it looks like.."Bud, Corona, Mike’s Hard Lemondae, MGD, Coors Light, Bud Light, Modelo", this beer can be a Godsend. It seems to be fairly well distrubuted and much like SNPA, it will work really well in a pinch.

The beer pours out a light copper/amber body with a nice 2-finger rocky off-white cap. Aroma has some grapefruit hop bite to it, and a decent showing of malts. The aroma seemed to be going a bit cheesy, but there was still enough hop to enjoy. Pretty simple. Flavors were rather mild, with a light citrus hop profile, sweet malts for balance and the hop flavor echoed a bit on the swallow. Not a world shaker, but as I said..in a pinch it’ll do.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

i remember having a really good imperial ipa from Pyramid once, but it must have been based on a different IPA than this one...this is the budweiser of IPA's. anything but inspired. less aroma and flavor than one would expect.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

This is very disappointing for an IPA, more of a regular Pale Ale to me. Very faint grapefruit and grassy hops. Pours a cloudy golden color. Has a nice fizz in the mouth that makes the beer seem hopeful until it pours down the throat; it has a nice malt balance and some tangy grassy hop flavor, but theres no outstanding hop explosion, much less big flavor that I expect from an IPA. I guess I commend its smoothness, but I would probably not buy this again out of a 6er; on tap, possibly.

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

Pyramid continually puts out tasty beers at great prices. This one beer smelled of dark malts and had an appearance of a dark frothy thick beer. Not a bad bite to a high alcohol IPA. good beer

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

Thunderhead poured a medium yellow body, its mid level carbonation gave it a small white head. Mouthfeel was adequate, Aroma was very faint, a slight hop presence with no dominate floral or pine attributes. Taste was about the same as the aroma. Overall its o.k., however i wont purchase it again since there are so many other IPA's yet to try.