Tectonic Event IPA
Great Basin Brewing Company in Sparks, Nevada, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.98
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled from the tap at the Reno location. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of dry pine and some earthy grass with a touch of bread backing. Flavor has pine and light resin with a bit of grass and a bread backbone.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From a pint can. Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Aromas are of hay and pineapple. Flavors are bitter pine and citrus.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
16oz can from Brewers Haven. Dark golden, hazy, sparse head, thin, foamy ring. Aroma features notes of caramel and citrus. Taste is a nice blend of old school hops, caramel malts, sweet, bitter, earthy. A little bit hazy, a little bit NW.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Grapefruit and a decent dose of booze. Golden pours with great head and lacing. Bitter end. Some candied apple, caramel. Tap at brewery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft @ 2018 Great Vegas Festival Of Beer. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap pours out amber copper topped with a sand head. Nose is pine hops sweet malt notes. Taste is more of the nice pine hops some citrus and sweet caramal malts.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Great Basin, Reno. Clear golden color with a modest white head. Aromatic with citrus and pine, some caramel malt. Hop flavor delivers nicely with citrus and tropical fruits, a little more pine. Malt base is sturdy, but this is a hops forward beer.
bb (18428) reviewed Tectonic Event IPA from Great Basin Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and summer fruit aroma. Grapefruit and tropical fruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Summer fruit and grapefruit linger with light malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the brewery
Pours clear golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma of citrus and earthy. Taste is grassy, citrus and herbal
Decent
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at the Reno source. Clear golden yellow color. Aroma of mixed citrus. Taste is bitter pineapple and grapefruit. Nice.