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Wolaver's India Pale AleWolaver's India Pale Ale

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rAvg: 3.55
pDev: 14.93%
Reviews: 267
Hads: 125

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Brewed by:
Otter Creek Brewing / Wolaver's visit their website
Vermont, United States

Style | ABV
English India Pale Ale (IPA) |  6.50% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (250), on-tap (16), growler (1)

Notes:
This robust India Pale Ale follows British tradition by using bountiful amounts of fresh hop cones to produce a crisp clean character; blending Magnum, Crystal and Hallertauer hops with generous amounts of Munich and Carmel malt.
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Reviews by the Alström Bros:
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Todd

Massachusetts

3.9/5  rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours a copper coloured beer with orange hues. head is decent with a nice white cap that settles to a creamy foam lace ring. Alcohol, light spicy hops, bready in the aroma.

Nice mild citrus hop sting, with a cheesy hop character. Hops are also a bit spicy/herbal and meld with a light spicy alcohol presence. Body is medium, mouthfeel is smooth and even. Malt character is ample and sweetish, with earth and wood notes. Nice hearty, dextrin fullness. Some bready flavours in the background. Fruity and juicy around the edges.

Nice alcohol bite, balanced with a firm malt and defining hop character. Just a good, solid IPA in my book.

Serving type: bottle

07-23-2002 20:04:43 | More by Todd
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Jason

Massachusetts

3.98/5  rDev +12.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Presentation: 12oz short brown twist, on the neck states that this product is certified by the OTCO as organic. No freshness date.

Appearance: Pale amber in colour with a creamy bubbly sticky lace.

Smell: Raw hop aroma, rustic grain and mild fruit.

Taste: Rich mouth full of rounded grainy malt, raw intense hop and some fruity esters. Some chewiness shows the residual sweetness and dextrins, the hop bitterness and flavour cut the malt to be well balanced for an IPA.

Notes: Very rich and very tasty, and at 6.5% abv it warms the body a little.

Serving type: bottle

04-17-2002 21:12:47 | More by Jason
More User Reviews:
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Ajlvt

Massachusetts

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

06-10-2013 13:54:00 | More by Ajlvt
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Beeranator

North Carolina

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

06-08-2013 23:51:54 | More by Beeranator
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MistahBeah

Massachusetts

3.13/5  rDev -11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

Appearance: Cloudy orange. About a finger and a half of creamy white head with mild retention. Thick around the edges with a good amount of lacing. Some carbonation and a little bit of sediment

Aroma: Bready malts, some caramel sweetness. Toasty cereal grains. Faint citrus hops. A touch of earthiness. Nothing mindblowing here but not bad

Taste: Follows the nose for the most part. Cereal grains in the foreground. Like oats. There's a wheaty twang. Some sweet caramel. Earthy hops meet somewhere in the middle but seem a bit like an afterthought. At most there's a slightly oily pine presence in the finish. Like the nose nothing out of the ordinary but not much of note. Decent

Mouthfeel: Creamy. Some body but not much bite. A bit watery. Clean

Overall: Not one for the ages but it might get you through in a pinch. In the end there just isn't much to write home about in this beer. Very average

Serving type: bottle

06-01-2013 01:52:49 | More by MistahBeah
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Beergelden

Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%

05-27-2013 16:32:26 | More by Beergelden
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Slatetank

Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%

05-25-2013 14:31:06 | More by Slatetank
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hphilip456

Massachusetts

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

05-21-2013 14:50:52 | More by hphilip456
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Ankur

Maryland

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

05-16-2013 00:47:50 | More by Ankur
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twenty5

Pennsylvania

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

05-15-2013 16:55:23 | More by twenty5
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tnbeatty

Vermont

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

05-15-2013 13:30:41 | More by tnbeatty
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Chris_Mac

New Hampshire

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

05-05-2013 23:14:19 | More by Chris_Mac
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smiga

New Jersey

3.59/5  rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5

Poured from bottle into .5l cylinder glass.

Appearance – Pours a beautiful lightly hazed orange-copper color with a two finger off white head.
*But compared with Dales Pale Ale - not as pretty or bright a copper. some big bubbles in head, lighter level of lacing.

Smell - More laid back and subtle than AIPAs. a blend of sweet and hop. caramel sweetness with hops, earthiness backing. A bit of sweet orange hop as well. Quite nice and very subtle.

Taste – Starts with bread mixed followed by citrus and floral/herbal arc. The herbal and floral hop intensify on back end. finishes earthy. But again, subtle like the smell. Wholesome, approachable, sessionable, not much sense of the 6.8 or esters. More calm and earthy. Refreshing aftertaste, goes well with food, in this case (grilled grass fed burgers on pretzel roll with grilled asparagus (it's spring), red pepers, mushrooms, garlic).

Mouthfeel – Hi creaminess, lo carbonation. The creaminess parallels the earthy hop, the grass. Organic!

Overall – Very original, refreshing, made in Vermont IPA. Subtle and good starter IPA. Personally I like the piney crisp complexities of Dales Pale Ale, Stone, Troegs. This one less citrus and more earthy. It is a nice break from the more traditional. Every hop head must try it. Organic! Made in Vermont!

Serving type: bottle

05-03-2013 00:32:47 | More by smiga
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Segelstrom

Pennsylvania

2.75/5  rDev -22.5%

05-02-2013 00:26:32 | More by Segelstrom
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PoppyParthenonE

Connecticut

4.25/5  rDev +19.7%

05-01-2013 02:11:09 | More by PoppyParthenonE
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travishardy929

New York

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

04-26-2013 00:12:41 | More by travishardy929
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scmoore81

Massachusetts

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%

04-19-2013 14:14:20 | More by scmoore81
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nebula1999

Connecticut

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

04-14-2013 14:34:11 | More by nebula1999
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tdatt43

Virginia

2.5/5  rDev -29.6%

04-11-2013 22:39:10 | More by tdatt43
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CoCambria

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

04-07-2013 19:09:19 | More by CoCambria
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JoeLacy

Ohio

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%

03-25-2013 05:24:07 | More by JoeLacy
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Phillyz

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

03-13-2013 17:41:34 | More by Phillyz
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hyoung41

Virginia

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

03-13-2013 00:54:11 | More by hyoung41
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mckowned

Connecticut

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

03-12-2013 10:44:25 | More by mckowned
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PretzelsNBeer

Pennsylvania

3/5  rDev -15.5%

03-10-2013 20:53:22 | More by PretzelsNBeer
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Wolaver's India Pale Ale from Otter Creek Brewing / Wolaver's
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