John Sleeman Presents India Pale Ale

Bottle: Filtered.

Exported as Sleeman IPA 46*

Brewed with Canadian 2 row malt, English caramel malt, and Golding hops.
"A distinctive ale of golden amber colour, this India Pale Ale is characterized by a malty sweetness at the beginning of the palate and finishes with a hoppy, slight bitterness at the end."

2.6

247 reviews

Guelph, Canada

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2.8 Une bière dorée qui fabrique un petit col mousseux. Le nez est celui d’une lager avec des sucres caramélisés et des petites touches de houblons préfabriqués. Les saveurs permettent de découvrir davantage de houblons. Ceci dit, leurs capacités sont très limitées. Les grains sucrés donnent du caramel et permettent aussi de découvrir quelques touches vanillées. La bouche est correcte. Les bulles ne semblent pas être forcées. La texture n’est pas collante. La finale est très courte et sans grande incidence sur des notes légèrement amères et finement métalliques. Rien d’étonnant dans le fait que cette IPA soit si faiblement houblonnée. Ceci dit, elle remplie bien son rôle de bière acceptable lorsqu’on sort un soir de semaine dans un bar de Saint-André-Avellin.

3.5 Couleur dorée avec une mousse respectable qui tend à s’éclipser avec célérité. Nez de houblons floraux avec des traces très subtiles de citron. En bouche, c’est quelque peu crémeux, et le houblon est présent, sans être puissant. Des notes de pamplemousse et de citron créent une belle acidité. Cela fait penser à la Sleeman Creek avec un peu plus d’amertume. C’est une belle manière de s’introduire à la IPA, or cette bière, en définitive, manque un peu de personnalité. Malgré tout, c’est une belle bière désinvolte qui est une «coche» au-dessus de plusieurs consœurs commerciales. C’est un bon petit produit commercial. Je ne lève pas le nez sur celle-ci, car elle nous présente une belle amertume bien balancée. Son léger manque de personnalité est indubitable, mais c’est quand même pas mal plus intéressant que bien des bières désinvoltes. J’ai bien aimé, franchement! Cheers!

2.6 Une ipa bien commercial ,qui est fait pour le grand public et c’est bien correct comme ça.Au gout,les houblon sont plutôt caramel avec une légère amertume en fin de bouche qui ce caramélise au palais.

1.8 Best thing about this beer is the pour. Clear auburn with a small off white head. Aroma is skunk, absolute skunk. Smells like a summer night in my neighborhood when it’s garbage night and a local dog as pissed off a skunk. Small caramel malt through the stench. Taste is light, slightly woody from hops but more caramel from the malt. It’s palatable but not something I’d go back for.

2.8 Sample at Fredericton Craft Beer Festival. Filtered, not much head but sample glasses aren’t great for that. Colour in the picture is accurate. Aroma is not strong, moderate IPA malts, but very little hops. Taste is a little fuller. Decent malt without being too sweet, some copper coin, and a hint of pine/citrus hops. Almost manages to be an IPA. Easy drinking. Overall, more enjoyable than most other macros.

2.8 Bottle, thanks to a bud who bought a mixed 12 pack - maybe this one won’t taste like sparkling water. No need to pour it into a glass, as it comes in it’s own see through container. Aroma of caramel malt, (actually smells like malt, what a wonderful start), light resinous hop notes. Taste of caramel malts, quite malty with a resinous bitterness. Surprisingly not bad. In terms of macros stealing the brand IPA, this one beats the pants off of Alexander Keith’s IPA. It actually taste maybe like a 19th century IPA (made with modern brewing techniques). Go Sapporo!

2.0 bread, grass, spruce, citrus, amber, clear, minimal head, white foam, light sweetness, lightly bitter, lightly sour, light body, thin feel, creamy, average carbonation, astringent, IPA? Not much for bittering here, or for mouthfeel. Another fizzy, adjunct amber. Better than some cheap lagers out there as malty sweetness is present instead of pure corn syrupy sweetness. Marks low for taste because bitterness distinctly missing and a stretch to call this an IPA competitor.

3.4 Bouteille 341 ml. 5.3%. Couleur ambrée pâle, mousse blanche. Arôme de malt, un peu d’herbes. En bouche, malt, un peu de caramel, houblon et finale avec une légère amertume. Bonne, meilleure que la Keiths comme IPA commerciale.

2.8 341ml bottle pours a pale golden orange color with a finger of white head that leaves some very thin lacing. Aroma is light grains and grassy hops. Taste is light malty sweetness with only a moderate hop bitterness. Not even worthy of the name IPA, some American Pale ales that I have tried offer more hop character.

3.0 bottle. Poured clear copper with a thin white head with decent lacing. Light grassy hop aroma. Light body, average carbonation, lingering finish. Flavour of pale malts, herbal hops, peppery spice note, a bit astringent pithy ending.

2.8 Draught at Draft House, Tower Bridge, London. Golden beer with a small offwhite head. Hoppy grassy aroma. Hoppy swimming pool flavor with some sweeter notes. Not the best IPA.

1.3 pours golden with an orange tint, ok-head. is it written IPA on the bottle? lightly hopped just like all the other sleeman offerings - herbal, and classic sleeman yeast. same cerealy-malty backbone, lacking a little. just boring and so not an IPA.

2.6 Yet another Canadian ale masquerading as an IPA (I’m looking at you Alexander Keith’s). Pours a nice burnt orange with a thin ring for a head. Aroma of grassy hops but it is very faint. Taste was metallic with undertones of hops and a bit of malt. Almost totally lacking in hop profile. This isn’t even an English style IPA. Have always loved the bottles but the beer inside is so often mediocre.

3.3 This beer was original introduced in 2005 as Sleeman second beer from the old recipe book. These John Sleeman Present beers would only last a year on the market and another style would come out the next year. I never saw this one until recently. Now, we will see if Sapporo changed it. Pours a golden-amber colour with a slightly off-white frothy head that stays a while and has dirty lacing. The nose is hoppy, but not over-the-top like some micros. Mildly bitter taste with notes of grain and hop. Nothing too crazy here, but a nice refreshing IPA that is better than Alexander Keith’s and is easy to drink.

1.3 Why is this in a clear bottle? it smells dank and more cream of corn like than a beer with hops. style wise....terrible. Mouth: wow, watery. I’d never mistake this as an IPA in a blind tasting for sure. I ask: where is the flavour kick that i’d expect from and IPA...or an ale for that matter. I’ve already written too much about this terrible waste of beer. glad to see that it isn’t classed as an IPA on this website.

1.4 341ml bottle. Pours a light honey colour with white head that leaves a hint of lace. Faint citrusy, sprucy hops with underlying cereal grain on the nose. Sweetness up front that follows through the whole experience and watery like all other Sleeman products. Awful adjunct laden grossness on the finish that lingers forever...in a bad way.

3.2 07/2007, known as IPA ’46 Ale: The color is a hazy, dark golden hue, like a slightly darker form of lager. The pillowy head eventually thins into a film. It’s actually very bright, with some spotty lace. The aroma is malty with a decent top coating of hops. The malt smell is dry and biscuity, with just a slight hint of chlorine. There is also a small amount of wheat smell. The taste is more like an English ale really. The malt dominates. The hops are flowery, but clearly in the background. It’s slight, but thirst-quenching and pleasant enough. The feel is watery and thin. It’s not unpleasant, just not very substantial. It’s a light IPA, more like an ale with some extra hops. It’s fine, nothing special.

2.6 A Mes rate. Keg at the Maple Leaf as Sleeman India Pale Ale. Amber gold with a slight chill haze and a reasonable white head. Straight down the line run off the mill gassy lager like IPA. Decent grassy notes, pleasant bitterness and some biscuit malt in the background. A little too gassy for my liking. Faint metallic notes in the finish along with some cardboard and a hint of vanilla. Drinkable but nothing special.

2.2 This is a fair IPA attempt from one of the "Beer Store big brewers". It’s certainly not a fantastic IPA, but it’s a welcome change from the usual flavours of the mass produced. Not much aroma, a bit of hay and grass hops. The appearance is pale with a slight haze. Taste is light with a medium bitterness. Light and fizzy palate with a slightly bitter finish.

3.7 Sleeman Brewing & Malting Company, Ltd.--Sleeman IPA 46* Ale--2006--11.5 oz. Bottle--5.30% ABV--35 IBU’s? (4.0 / 5.0) IPA--Mild tight lacy head. Cold hazed bright golden color. Mellow floral English hop front. Malty creamy bisquit caramel mild sweet earthy body. Sweet mild citrus mellow earthy English hop spice end. Pale Ale? Sampled 4/22/2006. Sleeman Brewing & Malting Company--IPA 46* Ale--2007 Release--11.5 oz. Bottle--5.30% ABV--45 IBU’s? (4.0 / 5.0) 6-Pack-$6.99. Mild lace dense head. Clear rich dark gold color. Tangy floral hop front. Caramel bisquit mild sweet citrus malty Pale Ale body. Cloying mild earthy mellow balanced hop spice end. Nice mild IPA. Sampled 12/14/2007.

2.9 Draught, London Copper ody, white head. Bitter orange hop aroma, some biscuity malt whafts through as well as some dried apricot. Considerably full body, moderate carbonation. Also a bit oddly flavoured; citrus peel, spice, an odd dried fruit note that lingers with a solid sort of bitterness. I think one of these was enough.

1.6 Clear bottle, so you know what this looks like. Kudos on a nice looking soapy white head with decent lace though! Initially a faintly floral aroma, but after breathing, its all grains. Less sweet palate than other Sleeman brews, but only slightly. Still, the main player here is brewers cereal with scarcely a whiff of hops. Medium bitterness. This ranks with Alexander Keith’s as another "charlatan IPA". An embarrassment to the style.

1.2 Crystal clear gold brew, lots of bubbles, decent creamy white cap and nice silty lacing. Stinky skunky goes away a bit after the initial pour but , that first pour was brutal... armpit sweat.. nothing good here...I had assumed that this bottle was not that old. Meh malts for taste, chemicals, corn flakes, some bitterness, an odd sweetness... this is yuck.

2.7 Bottle. 5%. Pours a deep golden with a very bubbly white head that fades quickly. Aroma is corn, malt, and grains. Taste is more corn and grains into a dry, hoppy finish. Very hoppy, in fact. Overall, this is a pretty good beer, but not a great representation of the style, in terms of colour and complexity of palate...

2.6 341 ml clear bottle. Pours a clear orange gold with good-sized, rocky white head, some lacing. Pretty underwhelming nose with maybe a bit of spicy, floral hops. Taste is like a mild UK IPA/pale ale - decent malt backbone and a hint of the Goldings hops. Slight bitterness. If I had to say something positive I guess I could say it’s better than Keith’s "IPA".

2.6 Bouteille 341ml. De couleur cuivrée-dorée et claire. Nez de grains de malt sucrés, léger de houblon herbeux et de caramel doux avec des notes de pain ainsi que des traces métalliques, épicées (poivre très doux) et de légumes bouillis. Mince-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et aux notes croustillantes ainsi qu’une texture aux notes crémeuses. Léger goût de grains de malt sucrés accompagné de petites notes de légumes bouillis ainsi que de traces fruitées (agrumes) lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi rapidement d’un léger goût de caramel (traces de toffee et de rôti) ainsi que des notes de pain puis en finale l’on retrouve une légère amertume de houblon herbeux aux petites notes asséchantes (herbes mouillées) ainsi que de faibles traces d’épices (poivre très doux). Post-goût moyen, légèrement amer de houblon herbeux avec de petites traces métalliques.

1.7 Not a good version of this style at all. The aroma is old corn, soap, and dishwater and the flavor is light malt with a big metallic hint. Just has nothing going for it.

1.5 This beer is crap especially for an IPA, Sleeman’s should be embarrassed. Bright pale gold body with a white film floating on top completely wrong for the style in my opinion. Skunk-a-reffic stench coming from my glass of unhappiness resting in front of me I don’t look forward to what the next 15 min will bring. Malts taste darker then the beer looks but are extremely sweet almost undrinkabley sweet. Beer has more resemblance to a Euro trash lager then an IPA. Skunk is noticeable in the taste and there is a somewhat bitter finish. I hate this beer and everything it stands for.

3.2 Bottle. Aroma is mild hops, but lots of malt caramel sweetness and nutty fruit notes. Taste has lots of malt body up front, and a good hoppy backbone. A little maltier than other pale ales or ’IPA 46s’ I have had, but a decent drink overall.

3.2 A - strong hoppy aroma A - clear golden color with a frothy white head F - proper bitter flavor, but a bit too sharp for my liking P - smooth O - good effort, but it is a bit to bold