Midnight Sun Sockeye Red IPA
Brewed in the bold spirit of Alaska, Sockeye Red IPA is a finely crafted Pacific Northwest-style India Pale Ale with a real bite. Ample pale two-row malt creates a fresh, firm body while specialty malts impart a spawning red hue. The predominant character of this fiesty catch comes from outlandish portions of Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe hops, giving this beer tremendous citrus and floral aroma and flavor.
Determined and bitter but amazingly balanced, Sockeye Red IPA is gnarly enough to take you hook, line and sinker. Forget about a bigger rig; grab a bigger glass.
Determined and bitter but amazingly balanced, Sockeye Red IPA is gnarly enough to take you hook, line and sinker. Forget about a bigger rig; grab a bigger glass.
3.6
435 reviews
Anchorage, United States
Community reviews
Medium reddish color. Great lacing. Strong, clean, grapefruit nose that actually made me say "wow" out loud. Strong bittering hops start, mixed with a floral/grapefruit taste, before a lasting bitterness takes over. Great level of carbonation.
Pours two fingers of head on a hazy dark straw body.
The aroma is big grain and lemon.
The taste has a malty start, then a moderate lemon bitterness.
The texture is thicker and fizzy.
Nice.
355ml can. Pours reddish orange with a small head. Aroma of berries, herbal hops and grass. Taste is sweet, caramely and malty with some berries and herbal hops. Finish is sweetish, malty and caramely with some berries. Decent.
355 ml can. Pours an amber colour with a small foamy head. Aroma of bread, red berries, herbal hops and citrus. Flavour of herbal hops, red berries, graininess and gooseberry bush. Medium bodied. Sweet, berry, bitter finish.
355 ml can @ hotel room, Los Angeles.
Pours dark mahogany color with a small head. Rye aroma, resin, hops and orange, some caramel malt too. Dark berries on the flavor, malts, rye and resin, herbal notes too. Not very balanced.
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35,5 cl can @ hotel room, Los Angeles. Aroma has sweet berry juice, vanilla and hay. Flavour has grapefruit, menthol, mild resin and sweet berry juice. Not my thing.
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18 July 2015, tap. Amber, clear, no bubbles. Nose is sweet grapefruit and granola malt. Thin/med body and moderately fizzy. Sharp, grassy and grapefruit citrus, moderately bitter, some Amber malt background. Decent.
Aroma: pine, exotic fruits, some spices. Appearance: dark amber, medium, creamy, off-white head. Taste: light bitter. Palate: initially bitters continue, nie floral hops, tropical fruits coming up, some resin and pine. Overall: very nice IPA, excellent aroma and palate. Can at Brooks Lodge, Katmai.
Amber color nose of citrus with a little malt sweetness. Taste is bitter with a solid malt backbone. Bitter finish.
Copper color with white head. Aroma is malt forward. Taste is malty, bready, missing the hops, maybe an old can?
Pours amber with a small white head. Aroma of hops with a sweet malt backing. Tastes of hops, sweet malt and some rye -- nicely balanced and with a long bitter finish. Medium bodied.
Pours a burn red color with a white head. Hop, caramel, toffee, floral, biscuit and hop aroma and flavors. Medium body and carbonation. Caramel and toast finish.
Draught @ NYC Craft Beer Festival. Hazy amber color with small foamy beige head, floral hops aroma, low carbonation, slightly sweet taste, thin body, weak finish.
Can, amber pour, white head, nose and taste are both citrus, hoppy, bitter
Can from Noble Grains, New York, NY. An amber/red coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, grapefruit aroma. Tastes similar, hoppy, citrus, pine, grapefruit, slightly bitter. Very good IPA from Alaska.
Had this one three times on the trip through AK. At the Alaska Hotel in Juneau, it was bland and buttery. At the brewery, mostly just bland. Our Air B&B landlord left us a bottle in the fridge, and that one showed more life than the others, with a brighter hop note in particular, though it was a bit too yeasty even then.
"this has some potential to be seriosly tasty. No age on the can. but it didn’t seem super fresh or old. good balance. semi-sweet citrus (orange peel) and pine flavor, with a bit of caramel and biscuit. aroma pops a tiny tiny bit more than the flavor. really want to try this fresh off the line. Too bad MS don’t date cans..."
Dark amber colour. Citrus, floral hop aroma. Taste is malty, and more citrus floral hops
Tasted from draft. Pours a dark ruby brown that's a bit cloudy. Much darker than most standard IPAs. Aroma is earthly and herbal. Some licorice notes. Taste is a nice well balanced moderately bitter IPA. Flavors of pine, herbs, earthy notes, and caramel. Tastes similar to some rye IPAs. Different than most traditional IPAs but still very good.
12 oz can served in a wine goblet.
Pours a very reddish and dark color for an IPA, but then this seems to be a Red IPA.
Aroma: herbal and slightly earthy hops.
Flavor: strong and pungent hops. Reported IBU=70 seems about right.
Feel: medium+ body; good medium carbonation.
O: A well crafted Red IPA.
Grabbed a can while style tick shopping. Pours murky brownish red. Nose is caramel malt and red fruits. Tastes of grapefruit, berry, earth, caramel, pine, almost and English pale ale meets northwest. Dry finish light palate
Thank you Terry Stovall, for bringing this back from Anchorage AK --- Hazy dark crimson caramel, thick ivory head cover, sheets of lace that slide back into the drink. Taste is a little malt, quickly compromised by medium hops. Entering the finish, a much stronger shots of hops barrels through, and then slowly fades back to a bit of malt. This is "determined and bitter," but I don’t see much besides hops to balance. A solid IPA.
Aroma is malts, spices and light pine/citrus. The flavor is citrus, fruit, grapefruit, tea, very light tropical fruit and a tangy/mildly bitter finish.
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance had a red/brown body with a one finger white foamy head that dies within thirty seconds leaving a decent amount of sticky lacing.
The smell had a thick citrus/pine hops, soft cranberry coming through (interesting for an AIPA, but actually quite nice - I like it).
The taste was pretty bittersweet through the hops and malts backing it up just slightly, nice bittersweet aftertaste, dry finish.
The palate was about a light to medium, fairly sessionable. Carbonation seems to be spot for the style and for me.
Overall, this is a good AIPA that I always try to keep some in my beer refrigerator no matter what.
Big bottle. Pours darkening chestnut with a heaped Belgian foam. Aroma of red berries, blackcurrant, juniper, marmalade on Hovis. Sweet balanced, moderately floral and juicy red berry hop flavour with a pounding of juniper; soap, lavender, satsuma and liquorice hints. Malt emerging in a balancing digestive and dry roasted finish. Aromatic, floral and multicoloured on the belch. Good fresh hop. Excellent.
Pours a dark reddish orange from tap. Uneven head, big and small bubbles, slightly greasy looking. Taste of sweet caramel, hops are grapefruit and cedar, attenuated by the sweetness but lingering on the back of the palate. Head smears rather than laces down the glass. Dirty but delicious!
Bottle to glass. Not sure how old. Pours a mostly clear deep copper amber color with a light tan head. Aroma is a moderate citrus, floral hops, with sweet amber malts. Most of the hop flavor is lost in the flavor, with mostly amber malts shining through. A touch of piney floral hops hidden in there. Light to medium in body with a funky finish. Good, but not great. Have definitely had better from Midnight Sun.
22 ounce bottle. Pours golden red with a nice white head. Aroma of citrus, pine, and malt. Taste is grapefruit, pine, tropical fruit, and malt. Not too bitter finish. Well made.
22oz bottle in Seattle. Ruddy red, copper-orange. rich caramel malt and warming, bittering hops. smooth sweet malt backbone, mild alcohol, dry chalky finish. Sips well.