Illumination Double IPA
Central Waters Brewing Co. in Amherst, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.37
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A walloping Double IPA, Illumination is immensely bitter yet unfathomably well balanced. Copious amounts of Centennial, Chinook, and Simcoe hops give it a citrusy mouthful of tropical pineapple and mango. Nicely rounded with toasty malts for gentle sweetness. Here's to all you hopheads!
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle pours a clear light orange/amber. full dense pillowy white head. Huge pine/junniper/ grapefruit aroma. Flavors are a strong bitter piney hop front with a woody papery malt backbone. Bitter and plain and a lingering bite that says "108 IBUs"
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2010
at 22:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Poured a clear yellow amber with a near white head that dissipated slowly to the edges. Aroma full of strong pine hops with a a slight sweet grain note underlying. Flavor was full of strong pine notes with a bit of a biscuit undertone that help to keep the strong pine in control.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2010
at 20:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
cloudy orange, smooth white head. nice american style hoppy aroma, good malty balance. flavor is hoppy, malty, boozy, good balance, faint flowery.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jul 2010
at 14:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is hoppy, spiced and wooden. Fruity and distinct spiced hops bitter. Dry wooden and slight grapefruity. Ends bone dry and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2010
at 13:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of Plovmand. Pours golden with a slight haze and an off-white head leaving a discreet lacework. Intense, peachy hop aroma. Medium body, dry and fruity with loads of dry and astringent grapefruit. Gee, this is dry. 280710
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2010
at 13:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. An unclear dark golden beer with a yellowis head. The aroma has notes of lemon, malt, and citrus. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, spices, hops, and malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2010
at 13:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of markwise (a wonderful beer not from White Birch). Pours crystal clear deep gold with white head. The aroma is sweet sugar malts and picking up some grapefruit, tangelo and pineapple like citrus hoppiness. The taste is a tad prickly with carbonation forcing up spikes of tart grapefruit and orange peel along with a thin layer of sweet malts in the background. It gets modestly resiny with hoppy goodness into the finish. Thin body for the style but pretty tasty.
Tried
on 14 Jul 2010
at 19:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle pours a transparent orange with some nice, frothy white head. Nose is really hoppy, resinous hops, lemons, oranges. Flavor is sweet at first and then very bitter, lemons, grapefruit, orange peel. Full bodied, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2010
at 16:18