Topcutter IPA
Bale Breaker Brewing Company in Yakima, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.54
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Our flagship IPA is a well-balanced yet aggressive West Coast IPA that showcases Yakima Valley hops at their finest. Late additions of Simcoe®, Citra®, and Mosaic® give this beer its complex citrus, fruity, and floral aroma and flavor. Named for a unique piece of farm equipment that removes hop vines from the trellis during the annual hop harvest, Topcutter IPA delivers loads of hoppiness all year long.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at Pacific Brewing & Malting, Tacoma, 07/11/14. Clear golden amber with a moderate of white covering. Nose is juicy citrics, light floral, pine, tangerine, solid hop wafts. Taste comprises bitter grapefruit, pine, orange squash, straw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi aggressive hop bitterness in the close. Solid IPA, blew the house beers out of the sky!
Tried
on 22 Nov 2014
at 05:37
8/10
Tried
on 07 Nov 2014
at 21:48
8.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Bale Breaker Topcutter IPA (by Bale Breaker Brewing Company):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 19/20, MyTotalScore: 4.5/5
15/IX/14 - 12Fl. Oz. can @ home - canned: n/a (2014-1008) Thanks to bigmanlavos for the trade!
Clear orange beer, big irregular off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, citrus, lychee, passion fruits, bit grassy. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste :lots of citrus, very fruity, lychee, mango, oranges, peaches, slightly sweet, gentle grassy bitterness. Aftertaste: fruity, pretty bitter, peaches, citrus, lychee, dry touch, slightly sour. Lovely beer!
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 19/20, MyTotalScore: 4.5/5
15/IX/14 - 12Fl. Oz. can @ home - canned: n/a (2014-1008) Thanks to bigmanlavos for the trade!
Clear orange beer, big irregular off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, citrus, lychee, passion fruits, bit grassy. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste :lots of citrus, very fruity, lychee, mango, oranges, peaches, slightly sweet, gentle grassy bitterness. Aftertaste: fruity, pretty bitter, peaches, citrus, lychee, dry touch, slightly sour. Lovely beer!
Tried
from Can
on 15 Sep 2014
at 13:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft - Leafy hops, like your in a garden. Clear gold with a good white head. Mandarin, peach and lots of fruit. Sweet, bitter and well done.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jul 2014
at 12:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Glad I have a whole six pack of this, because this is some good stuff. Grassy, piney flavor and aroma. Fresh hop flavor with a mild bitter, dry finish. This IPA has a drink all day taste to it. Very well done.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jun 2014
at 18:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from LetsPour.com. Pours light amber with a transient white head. Aroma is a mix of floral/fruit. Maybe citrus. Med + body. Flavor is very "mosaic" with floral/melon/fruit. Arguably some of the harshness is citrus. Harsh? Yes, lots of hop. This is very NW, except it’s not all pine and/or citrus. Definite hop burn. Really good.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2014
at 18:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
I received this in a trade. I poured this into a pint glass and there is no canning date.
The appearance has a slight golden yellow color with fast rising carbonation filling the head which is about two fingers worth. The head starts to get fairly lumpy as it starts to settle after the pour.
The smell has mainly bitter citrus hops up front but ends up allowing some malts to enter in as it warms.
The taste is balanced well between the hops and the malts allowing a nice bitter to sweet flavor to pervade my tastebuds. Its not a true bittersweet, but still is a nice well-versed beer in the taste. There is an aftertaste and its somewhat bitter but nothing overbearing. There is a quick dry finish.
On the palate, this one sits about a medium on the body with a carbonation that isn’t as harsh as expected for an AIPA, but still there is a decent sessionable quality to it that tells me this could go fairly well with its respected food.
Overall, this is a fairly good AIPA that I could have again, maybe not one to seek out, but one worthy of at least having again.
The appearance has a slight golden yellow color with fast rising carbonation filling the head which is about two fingers worth. The head starts to get fairly lumpy as it starts to settle after the pour.
The smell has mainly bitter citrus hops up front but ends up allowing some malts to enter in as it warms.
The taste is balanced well between the hops and the malts allowing a nice bitter to sweet flavor to pervade my tastebuds. Its not a true bittersweet, but still is a nice well-versed beer in the taste. There is an aftertaste and its somewhat bitter but nothing overbearing. There is a quick dry finish.
On the palate, this one sits about a medium on the body with a carbonation that isn’t as harsh as expected for an AIPA, but still there is a decent sessionable quality to it that tells me this could go fairly well with its respected food.
Overall, this is a fairly good AIPA that I could have again, maybe not one to seek out, but one worthy of at least having again.
Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2014
at 14:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at Stumbling Monk, Seattle
Hazy golden color with creamy head. Penetrating hop aroma, with an animal accent. Smooth mouthfeel, a bit dry; toffeish malt flavor, strong bitterness, orange peel, hop resins, but also a light chicory touch.
Very fresh and oily hops, pleasant juice, but something in the final still needs to be tuned.
Hazy golden color with creamy head. Penetrating hop aroma, with an animal accent. Smooth mouthfeel, a bit dry; toffeish malt flavor, strong bitterness, orange peel, hop resins, but also a light chicory touch.
Very fresh and oily hops, pleasant juice, but something in the final still needs to be tuned.
Tried
on 06 May 2014
at 09:34
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at O’Malley’s in Rathdrum, ID. Pours almost clear old gold with a medium off-white head with decent retention; leaves sheeting lace. Aroma is catty, piney, very hoppy. Taste starts out sweet before quickly turning bitter and lingering through a long finish. Bit of an alcohol burn. Super good IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2013
at 17:46