GoodLife Descender IPA
The descent from the top of the mountain to the bottom should be exhilarating. Whether it’s a gradual descent or a screaming race that gets you to the bottom, this beer is created to help you enjoy the experience.
Life is loaded with peaks and valleys, where we associate the valleys with the reward post ascending the peak. Like the flow of the stream slows in the valley, put the cell phone away, sit back and relax with this IPA, and enjoy the journey.
This beer is a hop lover’s dream that has balance you will appreciate. We created it for you so you can take time out from the rigors of life and descend to a valley full of hops – sounds good, no, great!
Malt: NW Two Row, Bonlander Munich, Melanoidin, Crystal 60, Carafoam
Hops: Centennial, Chinook, Cascade, Galaxy, Warrior
Brewed with a process called "Hop Bursting," resulting in a beer with a balance and quality that you will not forget!
17°
Life is loaded with peaks and valleys, where we associate the valleys with the reward post ascending the peak. Like the flow of the stream slows in the valley, put the cell phone away, sit back and relax with this IPA, and enjoy the journey.
This beer is a hop lover’s dream that has balance you will appreciate. We created it for you so you can take time out from the rigors of life and descend to a valley full of hops – sounds good, no, great!
Malt: NW Two Row, Bonlander Munich, Melanoidin, Crystal 60, Carafoam
Hops: Centennial, Chinook, Cascade, Galaxy, Warrior
Brewed with a process called "Hop Bursting," resulting in a beer with a balance and quality that you will not forget!
17°
3.7
181 reviews
Bend, United States
Community reviews
Dégustée au printemps 2016 (De mes notes). .
Pours a russet amber from a can. Fruity/piney aroma. Flavor is similar with a somewhat too sweet malt backbone. Good beer.
Pours hazy gold with a bit fluffy white head. Nose is tangy and citrus. Very tart with an orange juice note. Very carbonated. OK.
A nice slightly hazy golden and light copper coloured body with a small three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pine, grapefruit, grass and light malt. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong malty flavour with toffee, caramelised sugar, grains and earth all noticeable and only a touch of bitterness, some sweetness from honey and caramel and a little earth on the taail end. Aftertaste is rich from the malt, showing some alcohol bitterness and a touch of grain, but no real hop flavours at all. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from The Liquor Collection in Honolulu, O’ahu, Hawaii on 30-December-2015 for US$2,25 sampled on the train from Washington to New York on 01-December-2016.
Can, thanks to 5000. Pours faintly cloudy copper color with large foamy off-white head, citrusy aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter mango-citrus taste, smooth body, long medium bitter finish. Very smooth and tasty hops profile.
Can in Astoria, OR. Nose floral and grapefruit and citrus. Taste is floral, grapefruit, clean and crisp. Notes of citrus and lemon. Quite nice.
12oz can into taster glass from my cabin boys. Pours a thick amber honey gold orange tan. Nice melon floral aroma, then nicely settled hops. Taste is a nice flow of hops, citrus cues, grass, earthy notes. Solid IPA
Pours a golden color with a foamy, white head that stays forever. Nose is somewhat fruity: citrus with light pine notes. Taste is sweet with a distinct hop bite. Well balanced. Medium body; moderate carbonation. Quite good beer.
Location: 12 oz can obtained through Tavour
Appearance: Golden yellow. Firm head of small off white bubbles
Nose: Pine, citrus and a bit of caramelized sweetness.
Taste: sweet malt with a nice amount of pine and citrus hop bitterness
Body: medium and a little lively
Parting thoughts: a very nice IPA
Tasty brew from can. Relieved this beauty as an extra in a trade. Drank from can. Nice balance as advertised. Very enjoyable IPA.
gold orange pour. aroma wheat orange amarillo. Tastes doughy firmly bitter some dry alcohol bite. Sweet As Pale is way better. This in fact feels like a pale that’s been shoehorned into the IPA style.
Drinking a 12 ounce can. Scent is slightly off could be a bit stronger I do smell great citrus fruits with a nice hot exterior background some caramel malt. Taste is quite bitter starting off then a nice smooth lemony malty backdrop sits on your tongue for the perfect amount of time. This IPA makes me believe that there could be a good life.
Scent of the candied lemon peels used for making fruit cakes, piney hops. Massive rocky off-white head sits atop a hazy deep gold brew. Great balance, really good job to the lads at GoodLife! Sweet malts, sugar cookie dough with a good citrus/pine resin hop bitterness. Alcohol well masked, easy drinking, not overly complex but still very good.
12oz can from The Grapevine
Pours cloudy golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma of citrus, tropical fruit and oranges. Flavor of grapefruit, oranges and lemon
Very tasty ipa
Smells tropical and fruity, lightly malted. Slightly cloudy, Amber colour, regular white head. Super bitter start, grapefruit, peach. Mouthfeel is nice, loud start, great smooth finish, great balance medium body.
Poured from a 12 ounce can. Big citrusy aroma with some pine, and soft sweet maltiness. The flavor is Bready maltiness, caramel malts are noticeable, grassy hop character, bitterness is high and lingers, citrusy.
Great pine and hop scents, was limited to the can so I couldn't check the color too well. Light hop flavor with a hint of malt
Bottle. Hops are up front in this brew and overwhelmed the maltiness. It was decent but not great.
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy burnt orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute leaving some light lacing roaming all about.
The smell started off with a big burst of citrus hops running over light piney notes and then a slight floral setting balances within.
The taste copied the smell to have a nice bittersweet burst of hops to malts, nicely balanced. A light piney to citrus aftertaste leads into a refined sweet citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonation feels right for an AIPA - slightly back to allow the hops to take the lead on the bitterness and harshness on my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA that I would have again.
I think it would be tough to find a west coast IPA that is better balanced. Great nose and smooth herbal finish.
Orange pour. Nose and taste are tropical fruit puree, balance of malts and piney hops bring forward the frutiness. PNW IPA’s don’t seem to be my style but this was well done.
12oz can. Pours a clear deep orange, white head. Aroma is caramel, biscuit, citrus pith, floral notes. Flavor is earthy, caramel, citrus & malt. Med body, med sweet, med bitter... down the fairway IPA.
Had on tap at Laughing Planet in Portland. Aroma is slightly hoppy. Flavor is a bit tart at first. The flavor then becomes lemony and smooth. Great easy drinking beer!
Tap at sixth street bistro, Hood River. Golden with.big white head. Not my first IPA of the evening so might not have gotten the subtleties. Medium plus body. Nice citrus taste nice level of bitterness. Will order again
Pours orange with a massive foamy head that lasts forever, tons of lacing. Nose is fruity and dank. Flavours of grapefruit, lighter citrus, some pine, some light cereal. Taste mer bitter light sweet. Full body, sticky with lively carbonation and a lasting bitterness. Really nice.
On tap @ Manito, Spokane. Our final destination after hitting 12 breweries on the NW Ale Trail for TvM’s bachelor party. Medium orange, hazy, with a lasting off white head. Powdery citrus hops, mildly sweet crackery malts, long bitter finish.
Can from Meditrina. Hazy golden orange with huge head and lace. Tangerin fruity hops and spicy biscuit honey. fruity peach sweetness biscuit malt. Spicy woody fruity hops. Dry. Nice texture. Very good.
Tap, gold pour, white head, nose is hoppy, taste is bitter, citrus, decent ipa overall
Can. Typical IPA appearance. Citrus and hop aroma. Dry, citrus, but nicely balanced. Yum.
Can: Citrus and piney aroma, lightly sweet. The pour is a dirty orange and yellow with a ridiculously large sandy head. Really nice hops flavor, citrus and pine. Sweet with minimal bitterness. Light bits of lingering floral hops.