Chief Peak IPA
Topa Topa Brewing Company in Ventura, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.25
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Topa Topa's Flagship Beer, A modern American craft beer interpretation of the historical English style, brewed using American ingredients and aggressive hopping.
You’ve gone from shrubland to woodland to highland. When you stop to sip on a Chief Peak, the piney hops are first to arrive. The tropical tones of passion fruit, orange, and gooseberry aren’t far behind. Look out on the valley and trace the contours of the mountain. Breathe in the thinning air, wipe the sweat from your brow, and take another well-earned sip.
You’ve gone from shrubland to woodland to highland. When you stop to sip on a Chief Peak, the piney hops are first to arrive. The tropical tones of passion fruit, orange, and gooseberry aren’t far behind. Look out on the valley and trace the contours of the mountain. Breathe in the thinning air, wipe the sweat from your brow, and take another well-earned sip.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Copper with a firm, rocky off-white head. Pine, resin, sweet malts, citrus, a hint of tropical fruits, orange. Medium bodied. Finish has a bitterness that has a solid depth to it over a rough pine and sweet tropical fruit note. Not a brash WCIPA but still quite nice. Highly drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Aug 2026
at 16:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
355ml can. Minimally milky, orange, golden colour with average, frothy to creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Slightly zesty, citrusy fruity and minimally resinous and piney, hoppy aroma, pale and slightly caramel malty background, hints of orange, mandarine, grapefruit, lemon, a touch of pineapple. Taste is moderately bitter, slightly citrusy fruity and minimally resinous and piney hoppy, minimally sugary, pale and minimally caramel malty as well as crystal malty basis with some residual sweetness, hints of mandarine, orange, pineapple, lemon, mild zesty bitterness; a minimally mineral and chalky touch in the finish.
Watery texture, rather indifferent, dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
Definitely on the fruity West Coast side, not overly intense, dry and clean - solid.
Watery texture, rather indifferent, dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
Definitely on the fruity West Coast side, not overly intense, dry and clean - solid.
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 23 Jun 2025
at 23:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap at Craft! in Paso. Pours light gold-orange with small, off-white head. Moderate tropical on both the aroma and flavor. Moderate malt in the flavor, appearing more strongly in the back half of the palate.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Oct 2024
at 18:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
--Canned at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. -- Clear golden, small head. Grapefruit and tangerine up front. Mid sweet with solid body and rounded mouthfeel. Bready malt. Generous grapefruit and tangerine. Long piney bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2024
at 15:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On-tap 16oz pour in Finney's, Old Town Orange on Saturday 15th June 2024. Light haze within the golden orange body, white head. Piney hop front with a fruity centre, nice easy going IPA with enough bitterness to keep me happy.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jun 2024
at 22:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Packed Sept 28. Almost clear amber with a near inch of nearly white head. that laces well and never quite disappears. Aroma of pine sap, brooding tropical fruit, bread. But lighter on the palate than what that suggests with citrus joining breezier tropical notes before a clean bitter end. Solid drop.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2020
at 12:21