The Tap Leatherlips IPA
Hold onto your hats, or even better - your lips! This bitter beer is for "hop-heads" only. Ripe with floral and citrus notes, our new "india pale ale" is so packed with Centennial and Chinook hops it should be green (the color of hops). It’s also unfiltered and dry-hopped. Are you up to the challenge?
12.7 degrees Plato, 50 IBU
12.7 degrees Plato, 50 IBU
3.6
185 reviews
Haverhill, United States
Community reviews
Striking label and a pretty striking brew. From the description I expected this to be another lopsided unbalanced "big" IPA with a bitter aftertaste but actually it’s got a nice balance of fruity and resiny hops, a sort of dry finish that keeps you interested in another sip. A good malt backbone and it’s good looking in the glass. So cheers!
Sample. Very bitter flavor that overpowered the malt and hop aroma. Not my favorite style of IPA.
12 oz bottle. Hazy burnt orange color with a thin white cap that disappeared quickly. Pine hop aroma with a solid malt base. Bitter, dry hop flavor with a malt backbone. Medium bodied with nice carbonation.
standard not to bitter american style cenntinenal hopped beer. you can probably guess it from there, no suprises good or bad
Der Antrunk ist nur kurz hopfig, dahinter deutlich wässrig, bevor die intensive Bitterkeit zuschlägt und den Hopfen weit in Abseits drängt. Kurz darauf regiert plötzlich die Wässrigkeit, trotz den Bitternoten ist und bleibt das Bier nun wässrig. Nur noch wenig hopfig, nicht fruchtig, holzig-bitter. Ein IPA, das erstaunlich wenig Hopfenaroman aufweist. 7/8/8/7/8/8
On tap at the brewpub the afternoon of Night of the Funk 2010.
Pours a modest amber-brown color with an off-white head that starts out a big shorter than normal. Then, loads of lacing follow as the head dies down. A bit strange in that there was very little initial foam but what was there stuck quite well.
The nose brings a solid dose of citrus, floral, and piney hops. Nothing really meshes and it seems like a bunch of hops were just thrown i the kettle without regard for how they would interact. The taste is a bit better as they’re more muted and meld into a generic "hoppy" flavor. Pretty bitter feel. Not a bad IPA.
Serving type: on-tap
Reviewed on: 11-14-2010
From a 12 oz bottle purchased in Newburyport, MA. Poured clear golden to amber in color with a small white head and light lacing. Nose of caramel malts and pine, citrus, and floral hops. Medium body and average mouthfeel. Favor is bitter, with lots of hops. Dry bitter finish.
First beer I have ever downgraded for aroma....I was very excited to try this given the high rating, but was a bit let down, seems like maybe it was an off batch, the carbonation seems off, not much head or foam, getting some hop flavor, pretty strong, very bitter on the back end, but I think something may have went awry in the fermentation stage bc I’m getting some off flavors from the yeast. Not great, but I would give another batch a chance.
Re-rate: Had it on tap and it was better, although still pretty bitter, too bitter IMO, which is too dominant. A little below avg.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy amber with a very thin off-white head that disappears by the first sip and left no lace. The aroma is weak citrus and not much else. The flavor is dry, husky malt followed by some incredibly watered down, weak citrus hops. There’s no way to tell the age of this bottle or how it was treated, but I can’t imagine someone producing an IPA, tasting this, and thinking, "Ok, this is ready for sale." Hopefully at some point I’ll get another bottle and have a chance to revisit this review. As it stands now, not very good.
12oz. Bottle: Aroma of hops, crystal malt, light pine, and light resin. Poured golden/amber in color with a tiny white head around edges only. Clear. Slightly sparkling. Full of medium-sized particles throughout. Flavor is medium bitter and lightly sweet. Tastes of hops, crystal malt, light citrus, light pine, and resin. Medium body. Lightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Medium bitter, hop and crystal malt finish is dry.
12oz bottle in a shaker. Pours amber with a thin, beige head. Aroma strong of hops, and light malts. Average IPA but a little too bitter with nothing to balance it. Worth trying though, because it’s still an IPA.
Amber with just off-white head and a bit of funk in the glass. Citrus notes in the aroma. Spicy hop bite, green and a bit cloying. Malt profile is a minor here. Palate is medium.
Nose is rather soft. Notes of orange, floral hops, light citrus, caramel, light sweetness. Pours golden orange with a light haze and decent lace/head. Flavors of medium sweet citrus, light floral bitterness, and caramel. Easy to drink, nice with food, unobtrusive and sessionable. Would probably be super nice fresh and on draught. I just prefer more assertiveness in my IPAs.
Really interesting IPA...has some peppery, earthy, grassy notes that you don’t find in most of the style. Bright copper body produced a 1/4 inch white head. Very herbal with grapefruit, orange peel, and resin also finding their space. Medium mouthfeel. Unique.
Bottle. Pours is orange, little to no head. Bitter hits almost before the hops, but there is also hint of orange. Very smooth like butter, might even taste a bit like it. Nontheless, bitter is what to expect with this one.
12oz bottle into goblet. Pours a deep orange with small white head. Medium carbonation. Malt aromas. Tastes a bit like dish soap.
Bottle thanks to kmurray (BA)!Tepid, transparent gold-orange, thin tan head. Nose has some cookie, light caramel, and dominant grapefruit. Flavor is off somewhat, bitter and thin with leaf, orange, and and olive note. Thin and heavily salty. Thankfully this is only 5%, otherwise it would be unbearable. As it is, drinkable but harsh.
Bottle. Pours a copper toned body with a white head. Strong rustic and bitter earth tones, some light grapefruit rinds and citrus tones. Floral bitter with cantaloupe notes and a spicy slightly grass y body bitter with spicy bittering hop resins and oils. Finishes more grassy and herbal with a bit of floral notes and a butter y oily hoppy finish that rolls across the tongue.
Bizzare murky yellow color. Aroma is piney, sticky, bitter resinous hops with no semblance of malt ballance. Mouthfeel is a bit thin and watery. Flavor is bitter hop leaf, dank and citrusy. Esssentially hop juice. An experience.
Thanks to hophead101 for sending me this beer as an extra.
Pours murky yellow with a white head. The aroma is orange and pine. The flavor is strong citrus with hardly any bitterness. Slightly thin, watery mouthfeel with low-medium carbonation.
Poured from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass.
The color is a clear orange with a nice two fingers of white foamy head with some thick lacing on the glass.
The smell is full with some nice hop flavor. There are some nice wet hop flavor come in late and take hold.
The taste is malty and with a really high hop flavor as well, kicking into the back end of the beer. There is a really nice pine flavor as well.
The feel is light and is light enough to have a nice hoppt presence and not take too much off the typical meal with this beer. Is light but mellow as well.
A: Cloudy murky orangish color with a large bubbly head at first. The head dies down to a thin ring with an island in the middle. It appears to be a somewhat sticky brew as I circle the glass, and this is confirmed by the lacing left behind.
S: Many have described it as earthy and I have to agree. There is a natural quality to this brew. I smell some metallic iron and dirt in the background but grapefruit and pine reign supreme.
T: Lovely IPA that is unique in its own right. I am immediately hit with bitter grapefruit peel and pine. As the bitterness dies down a nice ruby red grapefruit sweetness overcomes you. It finishes dry and goes down soo smooth. What a nice beer!
M: Medium bodied with a dry finish. Crisp and clean.
Some butter and earthy hops. hmm. gold. metallic and sharp, messy not tasty. can’t finish.
Bottle sample at a tasting. Thanks David Cohen. Slightly hazy golden. A pleasant citric and floral aroma. Very dry and bitter flavor with grapefruits. Medium-bodied.
@ a tasting, Thanks David, pours pale orange with a nice white head, aroma of grapefruit, marmalade and orange, dry and bitter with flavors of grapefruit, lemon and floral notes, aftertaste has some spices like coriander, medium bodied. OK
At a tasting, thanks David, small but stable and long lasting head with a little lacing, lightish orange colour, aromas of peach and grapefruit, flavours of home detergent and some fruit and an overpowering bitterness. Bitter and bland.
Bottle: strong bitterness, very hoppy, grapefruits, some soapy notes, very dry, a bit one dimentional but pretty good.
Has a deep golden color. Aroma is mainly hops, floral, and citrus. Taste is full of floral hops and a little citrus in the back end. Has a nice bitter aftertaste.
12oz Bottle. Purchased at Wickford Package Store - Wickford, RI. A somewhat stale Chinook aroma throws off the soapy head. West coast, of couse. Pours an evenly clear tanned gold, with a soaped opalescent white head. This is an interesting beer. I’m having a hard time telling if this six pack was just a little too old, or if the characters I’m getting from this beer are real. I think the bottle is a little light. With so much curt bitterness, I like a little more creamy malt for depth. The hop flavor seems to have died back a bit, but this reveals a less exciting malt base. The alcohols, are of course light. A rather brisk bitterness, not particularly well complimented by a ton of flavor. That being said, it does seem like a very solid recipe of hop use that brand-spanking-new fresh could be pretty stunning. I think the best part is that it’s got a lot of hop flavor, yet to me, is much more sessionable than a 6.5% IPA with more malt and alcohol. I’m giving a little lee-way on this one for a potentially unfresh bottle.
12 oz bottle pours clear orange but then finishes with a ton of sediment. Very little head. Floral hops dominate with a bit of orange and a touch of earthiness. Very sweet rich caramel. Bottle may be old as this was incredibly smooth and mild with only a touch of bitterness on the finish.