Ichthyosaur IPA
Great Basin Brewing Company in Sparks, Nevada, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.38
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Ichthyosaur "ICKY" IPA is a malt balanced IPA bursting with notes of grapefruit, lime, spruce, plum, and spice balanced by hints of caramel malt sweetness.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle shared at Travlr departure tasting. Poured into a snifter showing honey yellow with two fingers of clean white foam. The nose shows basically nothing. The palate is light bodied and lightly carbonated. Flavors of subtle pine resin and a medium zesty spiciness throughout with a final light bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2016
at 08:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Travlr’s DC Departure RateBeer Tasting. Clear golden orange with off-white head. Aromas of citrus, malt. Tastes of malt, citrus, pine, floral. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2016
at 23:06
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Some light citrua and a little floral aroma. Easy drinking. Amber pour with ok head and lacing. Light bitter finish. A hint of caramel. Bottle thanks to iphonephan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2016
at 18:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Clear golden amber color, white edge head. Caramel aroma. Taste is bitter caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2016
at 18:29
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From a 12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear gold with an off white head. Aroma of dusty grass. Flavors of hay and pine. Moderately bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2016
at 00:09
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a half minute. There was some light trickling lacing sliding into the beer.
The smell was a burnt breadiness with a burnt citrus hops.
The taste was exactly the same with a slight cardboard aftertaste.
On the palate, this sat about a light on the body with not much of a sessionability about it due to the off taste.
Overall, this \"highly evolved\" beer maybe is devolving. I went through an entire sixer just so it wasn’t just the one beer, but it was all the same. I didn’t care for this at all.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a half minute. There was some light trickling lacing sliding into the beer.
The smell was a burnt breadiness with a burnt citrus hops.
The taste was exactly the same with a slight cardboard aftertaste.
On the palate, this sat about a light on the body with not much of a sessionability about it due to the off taste.
Overall, this \"highly evolved\" beer maybe is devolving. I went through an entire sixer just so it wasn’t just the one beer, but it was all the same. I didn’t care for this at all.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2014
at 13:44
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft @ GABF 2013. Pours a hazy yellow color with a white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Nov 2013
at 07:07
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
0.355l bottle shared with The Tasting Crew. This is a blurry honey-colored thing with a small quickly sidesticking just off-white bubbly top. It smells not to extreme. Actually somewhat mellow. Hard to describe as anything other than hop-faded and a bit to old. It's soft on the carbonation and quite slick oily on the mouthfeel. Sweet in taste, the hops have faded a bit to much, but there are only really soft traces of bitterness. Some melon zesty yeastiness and a soft peppery and herbal graininess in the finish. Would have deserved a better destiny than being stored for over a year. 09.01.2013
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2013
at 02:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Update of old tick (feb 2013). Pint somewhere in Vegas. The fact that it only got ticked as a 3 means I was underwhelmed.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2013
at 17:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample at Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay. The beer is slightly hazy dark golden color with a medium off-white head that dissipates steadily. Strings of lacing on the glass. The aroma is hoppy with some citrus notes. Medium body with flavors of grassy hops, citrus and malt. The finish is short with a mildly hoppy aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2012
at 10:41