Riptide White IPA
Heavy Seas Brewing Company in Halethorpe, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.70
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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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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Strong Belgian yeast, wheat malt, orange, black pepper, clove, and coriander aroma. Hazy straw gold with a large dense off-white head. Very fruity, orange, wheat malt, Belgian yeast, citrus peel, coriander, black pepper, and herbal hops flavor. Medium body, soft carbonation. There’s a lot going on in this one .. nicely done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2013
at 13:55
7/10
Cask. Very nice
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jun 2013
at 15:45
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy amber go,d color, medium white head. Aroma of grapefruit, tropical fruit, bubblegum. Taste is fruity citrus.
Tried
on 19 May 2013
at 17:58
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
On tap at the bocktown. looks like hefe but the smell is hefe and ipa perfume. Odd spicey olfactory. Smell is that of BO and banana. On the buds, this mix does not go well together IMHO. Think bubble gum flavored hops. Not impressed.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2013
at 09:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
On draft at Spacebar Falls Church VA. Pours a clear gold with a white head. Orange zest and bread yeast nose. Flavors of orange with a bit of candy sugar.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 May 2013
at 15:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours nearly clear apple-gold with a short, thin tan head. Aroma is sweetly malty, orange, hops. Taste is like a Belgian Wit but hopped like an IPA..... citrus, florals, orange, wheat.... Very good and different.
Tried
on 10 May 2013
at 17:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle from House of 1000 Beers, New Kensington. Pours a hazy orange color with a medium sized foamy white head. Good head retention. Aroma of strong cloves and other spice, wheat, citrus and herbal hops. The taste is citrus hops, caramel, wheat, spice. Medium bodied, well balanced. Nice hoppy wit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2013
at 18:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
@CBC-tight/rich white-cloudy gold. A-coriander, floral/pine, some lt malt/wheat. T-coriander, floral/pine, some lt malt/wheat, some berries, spruce.
Tried
on 01 May 2013
at 07:23
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
Cask at Craft Brewers’ Conference 2013, Washington DC: Fennel and coriander nose. Cloudy amber, thin head. Minty flavor of overripe lemon and twigs. Thin and filmy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Mar 2013
at 15:41