Name: Grand Teton Sweetgrass
Style: American Pale Ale (APA)
ABV: 6.0%
Idaho's own Grand Teton Brewing has been popping up all over the midwest as of recently. For a state mostly associated with Potatoes and Napoleon Dynamite, they've made quite a name for themselves in the past few years. Earlier this year I reviewed their Pursuit of Hoppiness and found it to be rather good so I figured I should check out their Sweetgrass APA to see how it is.
Sweetgrass pours a bright hazy orange color with foamy head, some decent lacing and mild visible carbonation.
Floral hops and yeasty notes starts things off in the nose, followed by some grassiness, caramel, and pale malts. A bit earthy smelling for an APA if I do say so myself.
Flavor consists mainly of floral hops, caramel, grassiness, pale malts, and bitter resiny aftertaste. Overall, the flavor is rather bitter even by APA standards.
It's got a fairly light body and the carbonation is pretty moderate, giving it crisp feeling on the palate.
For a beer with the word "Sweet" in it's name, this is a pretty bitter tasting beer. All and all, it's not a terrible beer but there are much better APAs out there than this.
Grand Teton Sweetgrass - 6/10
There are much better APAs out there? Ummmmmm.....name some.
ReplyDeleteAleSmith X, Two Brothers SideKick, Deschutes Armory XPA, Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale, and Odell St. Lupulin just to name a few. Keep in mind, that's what I consider to be a good American Pale Ale. I understand that beers I may hate, others will like.
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