Bombay IPA
Boscos Restaurant & Brewing Co. in Memphis, Tennessee, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.65
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4-Time Real Ale Festival Medal Winner
During the 1800's, when the sun never set on the British Empire, beer being shipped to the Far East always arrived spoiled. To correct this situation, British brewers added large quantities of hops to their pale ales. (Hops act as a natural preservative.) The result is an intensely hoppy amber beer. Delicious with seafood and all spicy flavorful foods.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap at Boscos, Memphis. Old school Cascade IPA, some orangey & floral hops with caramel malt, modest sweetish grain. Bitter and sweetish flavour. Body is medium. Judging by the name the intent was to make an old school IPA, sucesfully I suppose.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Feb 2025
at 12:17
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bosco's Fred Scheer does an excellent job with this IPA. Hoppy, smooth and the bitter is just right. Very enjoyable IPA.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2025
at 23:50
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Classic old-school IPA, floral hop bitterness balancing a caramel sweetness. Finishes dry and perfume-ish. Decent.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2017
at 19:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft in Little Rock. Clear golden color, bright white head. Aroma of ripe stone fruit. Taste is bitter and fruity, edge of bitter lemon.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Aug 2014
at 18:17
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft - Pine and caramel. Clear gold with a rich beige head. Big up front bitterness with a caramel backbone. Not much hop profile outside bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 May 2014
at 11:54
6/10
Tried
on 27 Mar 2013
at 06:13
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Tap at Boscos Memphis. Slightly hazy amber orange. Thin oily head. Overwhelming diacetyl ringwood action. Quite a sub par offering. Mild soapy hop character, overwhelming off flavors. Amateur hour, this is pretty disgusting.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Oct 2011
at 23:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Location: Draft at Little Rock Brewpub, 8/23/11
Aroma: The nose has some citrus and pine hops plus some caramel malts
Appearance: The pour is caramel in color with a medium amount of lace
Flavor: The taste is what you would expect, light sweet with a bigger hop profile/bitterness
Palate: The body is light-medium with a slightly metalic mouthfee, fairly easy drinking stuff
Overall Impression: This one had a fairly standard (read: to be expected) hop profile. There was a nice bitterness there, but no complexity. Just call this one an alright IPA that is hardly memorable.
Aroma: The nose has some citrus and pine hops plus some caramel malts
Appearance: The pour is caramel in color with a medium amount of lace
Flavor: The taste is what you would expect, light sweet with a bigger hop profile/bitterness
Palate: The body is light-medium with a slightly metalic mouthfee, fairly easy drinking stuff
Overall Impression: This one had a fairly standard (read: to be expected) hop profile. There was a nice bitterness there, but no complexity. Just call this one an alright IPA that is hardly memorable.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Sep 2011
at 16:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
on tap at the Little Rock location pours dirty blond with a medium white head. Aroma is strong pine and floral hops. Flavor is awesome. Great balance. Caramel malt and nutty malts are cut by huge pine hope bitterness. A very nice IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Apr 2011
at 12:33
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
on tap-pours an off white head that laces and gold color. Aroma is pine hops, secondary medium malt. Taste is pine/citrus (cascade) hops-some bitterness, secondary medium malt-sweet. Easy.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2008
at 11:32