Ipswich Original Ale
A medium-bodied, unfiltered, English-style pale ale with subtle hoppiness and a smooth malty flavor that has made it our flagship product.
3.2
256 reviews
Ipswich, United States
Community reviews
Backlog rating on 8-17-2012 (Bottle) This beer has a medium sized off-white head that mostly diminishes, golden hazy body, fizzy, fast rising carbonation, and spotty amounts of lacing. The aroma is caramel malt and grassy hops. The flavor is lightly bitter, caramel malt, semi-sweet, and grassy hops. The mouthfeel is smooth and this beer is light-medium bodied. This beer is quaffable with the malt upfront and the hops taking a backseat.
Cask@GBBF 2014, London (13/08/2014) - pours amber colour with white head. Toasty malty aroma and taste, caramel, some citrus fruits. Ok.
"Fruity hops blend with ample biscuit and Carmel malts on the nose and flavor. Better than average for a style I’m not usually crazy about, but not worth going out of your way for."
13th August 2014
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Almost clear amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth and light and semi dry. Good fine carbonation. Decent malts, litte caramel. Light tangerine and orange before a light dry.and crisp finish. Nice condition.and pretty drinkable.
Gravity at GBBF 2014. Poured a clear amber, with a dense white head and good lacing. Aroma of raisins, sweet fruits and hay. Straw and grassy hops in the flavour, with some melon fruity sweetness. Finish was quite sweet; lots of caramel and mango.
Cask at GBBF, 2014. Gold pour with a white head. Stewed veg aroma, not much nose at all. Flavour is a little better- sweet fruit action. Not one to knock your socks off.
Sampled @ GBBF day 2. Clear orange color, small to average sized white head. Smell and taste malts, a hint of overripe sweet fruits, lightly bitter. Low body, low carbonation. Original rating: 6-3-5-1-10=2.5 -- Rerate August 9th 2016: Sampled @ GBBF day 1. Clear apple juice like rusty orange color, small white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, sweetish, floral, lightly bitter, bitter. Average to decent body and carbonation. Ok beer.
At GBBF 2014. Clear copper lasting white head. Like fresh satsumas. Really giod flavour good condition. Sherbert. Good beer.
Cask - Some berry notes and caramel. Clear copper with a nice white head. Bready grains with a long bitterness. Not very pleasant.
12 ounce bottle. Hazy range brown color. Decent sized rocky beige head. Yeasty toasted malt aroma. Tangy, caramel malt flavor upfront. Slightly spicy hops in mid taste. Finish is malty and brief. Average at best.
Bottle. Pours copper with big, pillowy off-white head. Settles quickly with stringy lacing. Aroma is malty, nutty, toffee, biscuit. Flavor is sweet, malty, nutty, toffee. Minimal hop character, lots of malt. Soft carbonation, medium body. A malty, nutty pale ale.
Pours a cloudy orange with a smallish head. Orange aroma. The taste is a bit muddled. I like in some aspects, but overall this is not for me.
Bottle: Poured a rich amber color with light head. Aroma is light sweet malt with grassy/herbal overtones. Taste is caramel with slight sweetness, ending in a clean, sharp piney, spicy finish. Light mouthfeel, moderate carbonation.
Tried this along with the IPA and Summer Ale. This was probably the best of the three. Pours dark orange, with a hoppy nose. Flavor is hops and malt, with some floral notes. Dry finish. Ok.
Nice and drinkable. Somewhat refreshing and very pale. Nice to drink in the propper ambiance too.
Poured from the bottle into a trumpet glass to drink. The beer had a cloudy, hazy, deep amber color with a large, foamy off-white head that had average retention, and modest cling and lacing. The aroma had a sweet fruity effect with ample malt featuring caramel and sugar, and a slight citrus note. Its taste was predominantly sour and fruity, with a barley grain character, and little sweetness. The body was a tad harsh with a thickish, dry feel, and low to average carbonation and life.
Pours a pale amber color with foamy white head. Malt and caramel aromas. Malty flavor with lively carbonation and bitter finish.
Bottle from sampler pack. Pours orange/amber with thick fizzy head. Aroma is cookie and cereal malts, light caramel, light toast, some raisins, and light floral notes. Flavor is bready malts forward with supporting floral notes, some dark fruit esters, and and light woody notes; dry finish. Medium body and carbonation.
12oz into a pint. Pours a dark orange fluid amber medeling color. Taste is up front dirty hoppy bitter. Hops up front but then the medeling malts transpire to form this brew. A nice brew for the style, fresh full bodied ales are nice, especially in the cold weather. Spices transpire to fold into the mix joyfully as well. A for effort, B for product.
22oz bottle. Bottled on 08/23/2012. Orange color, tall foam. May have an infection, seems to have too much fizz. Aroma of band-aids, pine bark, and caramel malt. Tastes of band-aid and caramel malt. Over-hopped, over bottle-conditioned. Finishes with an overly bitter English Pale Ale flavor.
(3633)
This was a very harsh beer. It started off with a metallic bite. Eventually I was able to discern some maltiness, but this was a very bitter (in a bad way) drink. I was able to see a little of the English Bitter, but only because I was looking for it. Disappointing beer.
(From notes 2011)
bottle poured into a glass at Durgin Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
Pours a hazy amberish orange color with a pretty thick head that settles quickly.
Aroma is a good balance of sweet malt and floral hops.
Slightly sweet at first taste with a somewhat bitter finish
Very good drink-ability, I wouldn’t turn another one down.
Serving type: bottle
Ick. I’m surprised by Ipswich; this is indeed a bad beer. Pours orange. Thick off-white head. Smells and tastes of eggs, cabbage, plastic, heat, and Bible paper. Vegetables and soy by swallow. Fuck this.
Like most Ipswich brews this is just an old fashioned, no-frills type of beer. A little on the dry side. The hop profile is similar to a pilsner. Medium-bodied. Pretty good.
Pint pour of deep gold with full finger head. Nose is malted hops... kind of a blend, but balanced. English Pale Ale, so i guess that makes sense. Flavor is pickles... I hate pickles. Maybe that’s from the hops? it’s fairly balanced. Malty, and thick. Full medium body. Not my favorite...
This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy white colored bubbles that were very long lasting and left behind a softly carbonated slightly hazy orange colored body and a thick foamy lacing. The mild aroma was malt hop. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish hoppy aftertaste. The thick chewy flavor contained notes of hops. A decent quaffable brew that I would consider drinking again.
Either this beer has a very short shelf life, or it is most boring beer I’ve ever had. The pour is nice, but that is about it. I get a slight bitter quality in the beginning, but then only a very slight malt flavor at the end and that’s it. Flavor is enhanced somewhat by a foamy pour. No real aroma to speak of. For me, not worth getting again.
A-- Poured a hazy brownish yellow color with a white head, almost 2 fingers and some solid lacing. Looks fairly carbonated.
S-- Hops, roasted malts, a little floral and get some carmel as well.
T-- First the malt, then the bitterness from the hops. Kind of aggressive but in a very good way
M-- A little sweetness from the carmel, the roasted malts and the hops are well balanced. The hops do come at you. Good carbonation and does finish well.
D-- Nice beer. This is a good ale and fairly complex and does have good character. Could do 2 of these easily.
Very good. It’s getting harder and harder to find a good, basic pale ale. The market is oversaturated with hop monsters, which I love, but not when it’s 112 outside. Great warm weather beer, and at 5.4 ABV this is a great beer for a bbq in the summer.
a mild bready aroma. a little light on the flavor slight fruitiness too mild on the finish