Laurelwood Brewing Co. Workhorse IPA

Workhorse IPA

 

Laurelwood Brewing Co. in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Regular Out of Production
Score
7.44
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 80 Ticks: 47
Workhorse is a true West Coast IPA, featuring over-the-top hop flavor and aroma. Three separate dry hop additions in the fermenter make this one of our hoppiest beers to date.
7.5% ALC by Volume. 17º Plato O.G. 3º Plato T.G. 80 IBU
 

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7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Big sticky pine resins, and big, sweet, bready, boozy, caramelized malts. Oily mouth feel, sticky lacing on the glass, and a medium carb.. The finish is slightly woody, with some dank, resinous hops. Wet hop cones, hints of citrus, finishes is medium bitter with a strong sticky pine finish. This is a in ipa, bordering on double.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:41


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Light tropical fruit, pine, orange. Taste is good. Nice bitterness, quite malty. Sticky. Good stuff

Tried on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:03


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Super good balanced Northwest American IPA. Aroma is mostly fresh hops with a little bit of caramel malt. Flavor is again fresh hops some grain and a little bit of pale malt. Bittersweet with just the right amount of Carbonic tasting everything is very well balanced. The carbonation offsets a slight amount of softness in the body excellent finish super good drinking.

Tried from Can on 16 Mar 2018 at 00:40


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle: Poured an orangey color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of citrus and light grapefruit notes with some bitter notes. Taste is a good mix of grapefruit and citrusy hops with some bitter hoppy notes and light residuals sugar notes with some good malt presence. Body is about average with good carbonation. Nothing earth shattering and maybe tad more bitter then I would like but still good overall.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2016 at 10:31


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draught @ Laurelwood, PDX Airport, Portland, OR. Pours dark yellowish orange with a smooth head. Aroma of grassy hops, citrus, herbal notes and caramely malts. Taste is crisp, hoppy and grassy with some pine and citrus. Finish is crisp, sweetish and grassy hoppy with some lingering bitterness and citrus. Good one.

Tried on 26 May 2016 at 15:04


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Sassy’s. Pours a clear copper with medium frothy white head thst lasts. The aroma is floral and citrus. Medium mouth, earthy hop, light citrus, resin finish, good.

Tried from Draft on 02 May 2016 at 01:22


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Fresh hopped version at The Drake Eatery (Oct 2015). Aroma is very hoppy with piney and citrus. Taste is very fresh, hoppy bitterness. Excellent.

Tried on 26 Feb 2016 at 14:22


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Plastic cup draft at the Moda Center for a Blazers game. The pour is clear copper with a one inch egg white head that is lasting, impressive considering the plastic stadium cup. The aroma is big orange citrus fruit, strong resin and sweet malt. The taste is a great blend of the big fresh orange citrus resin hops and softly sweet malt. The palate is medium bodied, active carbonation and a resin and mineral finish. Really solid IPA, super fresh - fantastic for a stadium beer.

Tried from Draft on 12 Nov 2015 at 10:14


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft - Fresh hop version - Light citrus sweetness. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Leafy, grassy, sweet and a bit of an herbal note. Sweet grass sticks a bit too much.

Tried from Draft on 04 Nov 2015 at 17:38


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft pour pint at the safe. Pours a clear copper color with a lasting fizz head. Rich sweet tropical fruit hop aroma and flavor. Almost has a little pineapple thrown in there. Orange fruit. A little sweet for my usual taste but overall an enjoyable, solid IPA.

Tried from Draft on 07 Sep 2015 at 19:24