Spruce Tip IPA
Goodwood Brewing Company in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.31
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This spruce-tip infused IPA is packed with crisp hops and piney flavor throughout. The recipe includes one of the best base malts grown and malted in North America, Cargill's Special Pale. Then it's topped off with spruce tips from the Great Pacific Northwest, along with Zues, Centennial, El Dorado, Comet, and Simcoe hops.
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7/10
A golden amber ipa with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt grassy resinous hops, spruce needles, juniper, pleasant. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light spruce, nice and rich. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jul 2019
at 19:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Light spruce, caramel malt, and hay aroma. Golden yellow with minimal head. Mildly sweet caramel malt, and moderately bitter spruce and hay flavor. Good body. Light - decent.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2019
at 16:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
On tap at Bricks and Barrels. Clear golden with white head. Aroma is nice evergreen, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is evergreen hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Dec 2018
at 22:31
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Goodwood, pours a clear golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out loads of spruce tips upfront, with light earthy hops. Flavour is along the same lines, with dried out earthy hops and loads of spruce. I don't really like the combo - very bitter and lacking depth. Fun experiment, but I'm not convinced.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2017
at 21:29
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cloudy golden amber color white head. Pine and grapefruit aroma. Taste is resiny pine. OK.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2017
at 10:43
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can pour into shaker pint glass. Appearance is lightly hazy golden yellow with fine white particulates, excellent sparkle, 1.5 finger-width foamy white head with good retention, spotty lacing. Aroma is citrus, resin, with very light woody, pine scent. Taste is resin, bitter, floral, light woodiness but nothing that screams spruce. Palate is light bodied with thin texture, average carbonation with finish like taste. This is not a bad beer by any means but it is disappointing if you are looking for a strong spruce character. It’s just not there--more like a traditional IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jul 2017
at 18:30
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 8
Overall 3
Hoo boy. Something has gone terribly awry with this beer, probably the inclusion of spruce tips, which gives it a overwhelming woodsy bitterness that makes you think you’re gnawing on a tree limb. The IPA itself is no great shakes, either, with a heavy wort accent to the malts that brings out too much sweetness in the hops. Bad beer mixed with a bad gimmick.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2017
at 20:17
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Can from Kroger. Pours a clear, light amber with a finger of foam that lingers. Pinesol nose with some faint lemon. Bitter on the palate with an herbal note. Dry with some light toasted caramel. Harshly bitter. I don’t know, seems like something isn’t right. --- Beer merged from original tick of Spruce Tip IPA on 26 May 2017 at 19:51 - Score: 6. Original review text: Pinesol nose with some faint lemon. Bitter on the palate with an herbal note. Dry with some light toasted caramel. Harshly bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 28 May 2017
at 00:21
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Pour is a hazy copper with a small white head. Aroma is a slight pine and caramel malt. Flavor is a strong malt, it’s not sweet just a very heavy feel. Some minimal hops and pine which I guess are the spruce tips. Very average at best, not much of a hop presence. This was canned on 3/1/17 so it’s not old but it taste like it is.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2017
at 13:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 3
Overall 12
Draft. Clear light amber body. White head. Aroma of spruce, toasted grain, grapefruit, pine. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/slick texture, lively carbonation. Taste of spruce, but not overpowering (to its credit). Lots of bitterness and not lots of depth.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2017
at 06:18