Charleville Hoptimistic IPA
Charleville Vineyard & Microbrewery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.64
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours orange gold with medium white head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is pine and citrus. Slick body, grapefruit, pine, light bitterness, good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
On tap @ Baileys. Pours a bit hazy golden orange appearance with a white head. Slight candy, pineapple, grapefruit, caramel aroma. Kind of goopy and overly bitter. Caramel sugary, dull citrusy flavor. Eh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Hazy golden color, small white head. Aroma of pure pine needles. Taste is bitter pine resin. OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Colonial Wine and Spirits, 5/23/11
Aroma: That is a rather sweet nose, like orange candy with some floral and grass notes too
Appearance: A hazy orange-brown colored pour with a creamy beige head and lots of lace
Flavor: Also tastes heavy sweet with lots of orange and citrus, it turns just a touch bitter in the finish
Palate: The body is really smooth and creamy with just a little tingle on the tongue and a dry finish
Overall Impression: Overall, this is a sweet one. If you are a sweet beer fan looking to get into IPAs, this one might be for you, as it does have a little dry/bitterness to the finish that makes it feel (only somewhat) IPA like. (Get ready for this as it is going to be an excellent description): It is kind of like a cross between a cream ale, and an IPA, only if you dropped about 50 orange candy's into the glass. (I told you, brilliant, he said sarcastically.) I'd never even heard of this brewery before I came across this one in the store, but the beer was worth trying, and is hard to score. Post-rate (but still sipping) edit, it got just a touch better as it warmed, bumped the overall from 12 to 13.