Yards India Pale Ale

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

A great draught IPA. Pours a light golden-orange colour, slightly hazy, with a thin tan cap. Citrusy hops, some pine, and caramel c ome through the nose, but the flavour is where this beer excels. Nicely balanced caramel maltiness and grapefruit hoppiness is what makes this a great beer.

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

I liked this beer and will be buying more from this brewery out of Philly. This was a nice and dirty IPA - unfiltered and gritty. It puckers the mouth and is full in body. Another beer I can get in VA that I couldn't in MD. I am a fan!

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

No $.05 refund in PA. An enjoyable IPA, pours amber with thin skin of white for head, Aroma is quite weak, though there are sweet hoppiness to it. Flavor is quite thick and sweet, though something buttery to it...a little odd. Finish is good, but the buttery flavor turns into a caramel, which is quite nice. Overall a decent IPA.

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

Sampled June 2006
Pours with a murky amber color. It is lightly carbonated and topped by, an initially one-finger thick, light tan colored head. The aroma strikes me as being weighted a bit more towards the malt side of the spectrum than one would expect from a typical IPA. I get notes of caramel malts, toffee, toasted grain and some lightly herbal hop notes. Actually this smells like a malt accented amber ale.

The taste is initially sweet, but then starts to pick up some biting hop notes almost immediately. It finishes with a lightly herbal, lightly astringent, hoppy bitterness that lingers on for some time on the tongue. Perhaps the hop character is a bit grassy as well, but only just. Barring the initial sweetness, the malt character is actually quite dry. It leans towards the toasted grain side of the spectrum, with notes of biscuit malt, and perhaps even some notes of stale malt extract. Besides the bitterness, which seems spot on for an IPA, this beer seems to be missing quite a bit of hop character; choose either English hop character or American, but add something here to balance the bitterness and malt notes.

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

this beer pours with a nice creamy head. the aroma is just fantastic. the taste has a nice bitterness to it. i'm not an IPA guy but this is one good brew.

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

My first impression of the Yards Brewing Company. And you know what? A pretty positive impression, it `tis.

But first things first: what's with the carbonation level of this dude? The bottle cap basically popped itself as soon as I cracked it with my bottle opener. A mad gush of foam spewed forth. And when I got this into my Comfort Suite's hotel room glass, it again rose up with the big-ass head of foam, and the bubbles madly dashing to the surface.

But this beer then lives up to it's share of the bargain, with a nice earthy/citrus aroma, and a nicely balanced hoppy/malty flavor profile. A nice wisp of fruit in the middle, to balance out the raw/earthy-ness of the hop profile. And the finish has something of a pine or cedar (wood) to it, that isn't unwelcome.

Even still, it's a shame with the carbonation levels of this one -- makes it much more filling that it need be, especially considering the surprisingly cloaked 8.0%ABV of this bad boy.

An IPA that doesn't claim to be anything more than what it is (i.e. not silly "Imperial IPA" or "Triple IPA" nomenclatures for this one), that is only handicaped by it's over-abundent CO2-levels. If this were on tap, or from a hand-pulled firkin? I'd never leave the brewhouse....!

But with the massive amounts of CO2, I feel bad for having to mark it down so....

Music: Isis' "Panopticon"
//TB

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

Hazy orange colour. grassy hops, butter and toffee and the aroma. Toffee and hops in flavour with a bitter finale. Feels like a hybrid of an american and an english ale.

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

The beer is the color of tanned leather with light head. The aroma is a little faint, but the flavor is very malty with a short bitter finish. This is definitely thicker and maltier than than most. It made for a nice change of pace in our IPA tasting.

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

Nice aroma. Orangey yellow in color with a nice head. Lots of american hops. Its a good beer. Good Ipa. Very hoppy. Decent beer.

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

Had this one from cask and it was quite interesting, worth a try, but not my favorite. Decent foamy head (although as I recall it did dissipate). Malty, somewhat yeasty flavor and mouthfeeel – although also decidedly weak in these two qualitites. Had a bit of an “old socks” overtone. Good, but I was expecting better - and definitely not what I think of as an IPA.