Heavy Seas Brewing Company Riptide White IPA

Riptide White IPA

 

Heavy Seas Brewing Company in Halethorpe, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular Out of Production
Score
6.70
ABV: 7.25% IBU: 45 Ticks: 19
Riptide white IPA is a beer brewed with a malt body similar to a Belgian style Wit with loads of torrified wheat. It’s hopped like an IPA, but we use a unique blend of Czech Saaz, French Strisselspalt, Calypso, Centennial and Cascade hops to create a big citrus nose and flavor with floral accents. To complete the feel of the wit style, we push the beer through our hopback which is loaded with Spanish sweet orange peel, Curaçao bitter orange peel, coriander, and a generous helping of hops. It’s fermented with a classic Belgian Wit yeast which provides all of the fruity and spicy notes you’d expect. We then blast the tank with our hop cannon which is loaded with Calypso, Strisselspalt, and Citra hops and more orange peel. The beer is then lightly filtered to retain all of the exceptional yeast character.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

12oz bottle. This is my kind of White IPA, one that leans more into the Wit side the equation than Saison. Pleasant hop depth. Full bodied, drinks pretty big for the moderate ABV. A little boozy, heavy, but a solid example of the style.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2016 at 22:31


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

12oz bottle. Poured a golden amber color with a small white head. Aroma was nice juicy citrus - grapefruit peel, tropical fruits. Flavor was tasty citrus, some light earthy notes. Lots of juicy fresh squeezed notes. Pleasant.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2016 at 16:18


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft @ Heavy Seas Alehouse, Baltimore. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy bitter finish.

Tried from Draft on 04 Nov 2015 at 12:22


5

Nothing special.

Tried on 08 Jul 2014 at 19:37


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Pours cloudy orange. A hefeweizen with hops, but more on the hefe side. Finishes with light sweetness. Tap at DC Beer festival.

Tried from Draft on 15 Apr 2014 at 10:29


6

Cask

Tried from Cask on 06 Apr 2014 at 22:16


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured an orange-amber color with a large creamy-soapy orange-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was musty, peppery, dusty and had a bit of funk and earthy hops. The flavor was bitter, tart, lemon, musty, dusty, black pepper, funk and earthy hops. Long musty and funky lemon and pepper finish.Moderately full bodied. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2013 at 14:58


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Better Beer Of The Month Club. Cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma of wheat, coriander, citrus peels, yeast, fruity esters and a bit of hops, floral and a bit citric. Sweetish and spicy flavor with wheat, some fruitiness, coriander, light graininess and a rather bitter finish with some hops and more spiciness. Medium-bodied. Decent and kinda refreshing. More like a slightly hoppy Witbier than a White IPA. Could use more hops.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2013 at 09:04


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

12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 9/2013. Pours very cloudy golden amber color with a 1 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big lemon zest, pear, apple, orange peel, light banana, coriander, clove, pepper, floral, grass, wheat, bubblegum, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of yeast and hop notes; with good strength. Taste of lemon zest, pear, apple, orange peel, coriander, clove, light banana, pepper, floral, grass, light pine, wheat, bubblegum, and yeast earthiness. Lingering notes of light fruits, citrus peel, coriander, clove, light banana, pepper, floral, grass, wheat, bubblegum, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice balance and complexity of hop, spice, and yeast ester flavors; with a solid malt backbone and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth and fairly crisp mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice White IPA! All around nice balance and complexity of hop, spice, and yeast ester flavors; and very smooth to drink. Really enjoyed this one.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jul 2013 at 18:34