Weyerbacher India Pale Ale

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

Faint citrus notes. Very faint. No after taste at all, which some people may like but I like to know what I just drank. I almost get a coffee note during the sip. Not very carbonated. No head at all. I bought this because I love their double unfiltered IPA, but this one just didn't do it for me. Good not great.

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

Poured a copper color with a small, white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of grassy hops, citrus fruits, wood, and caramel malts. Taste of citrus fruits, with some light tartness, caramel, tinny abrasiveness, and low bitterness.

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

07.19.05 12oz bottle thanks to Weyerbacher rep camped next to me at BCTC. Dark copper-amber pour with big and lacy white head, sticky. Aroma is dried fruits (peach, apricot, golden raisin) and below a waft of cat and piney hops and some buttered resin. Flavor features some roasted peat and black pepper along with more resinous, citrus tree hops, detergent-floral. Creamy and peppery palate is a bit like an IPA mousse--could be more crisp.

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

Shared a bottle of this while hanging out with my bud Richard at his place this weekend, and this was our fourth beer of the afternoon/evening. After two wishy-washy "summer" ales, a overally quirky and slightly flawed Hop Infusion, it would have been nice for this beer to pull things together and carry-on smartly. Unfortunately, while the Weyerbacher Hop Infusion seemed well-made (albeit with a flawed recipe), the Weyerbacher IPA had all the faults of it's hoppier cousin, and a few faults of it's own, as well.

Over-carbonation is never a good sign, and this beer seemed to be way-too energetic in the pour, the presentation, and overall mouthfeel. And while the aroma was mildly interesting, it wasn't anything that really knocked my socks off.

For the flavor profile, once you got past the mass of bubbles in each and every sip, and made the best of the adequate aroma, there wasn't a whole lot in the mix to work with. I know East Coast IPA's are ussually no where near as bitter/agresive as their West Coast brothers, but this is no-where near bitter enough to either last a 6 month voyage to India on a sailing ship, or to impress me very much.

If this were marketed as a Pale Ale, I'm sure I might more interested. But with the lack-luster mouthfeel (stemming from the over-carbonation) and lack of any significant hop profile, there really isn't much going on here as an IPA.
//TB