Sunken Island IPA
Kenai River Brewing Co. in Soldotna, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.60
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Tastes too heavy for me. Chewable, really.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12oz can pours out amber topped with a sand head. Nose is pine hops some bread cereal malts. Taste is more of the nice pine hops maybe a touch of juniper and the sweet malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
From a 12 oz can. Pours a hazy amber with an ecru head. Grassy nose. Flavors of pine and toffee. Light bitter sweet finish.
stevoj (18327) reviewed Sunken Island IPA from Kenai River Brewing Co. 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
IPA in aroma and flavor, but nothing sets this one apart. Rather pedestrian for NW IPAs. Still pretty tasty though.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Second beer from tonight’s hidden in the fridge series, thanks to BeerKangaroo for the opportunity. Dark golden almost amber color with a huge frothy beige head that slowly recedes but sticks to everything. Citrus and pine aroma with an earthy almost sulfury English yeast thing going on. Light fruitiness and a bit of sweet sugary malts round out the aroma. The flavor is solid bready caramel maltiness with a nice earthy citrus hop flavor and and a mild level of bitterness. Medium body with a light to moderate level of carbonation and a sweet slick mouthfeel. Nice IPA, a bit old school, but nice to drink, and its in a can!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a hazy copper/orange color and leaves the same color body, one and a half finger white foamy head that rises just a bit and then dies gracefully leaving a spectacular looking lightly foamy spider web clingy lacing, nice show; the aromas is sweet and floral yet piney and somewhat bitter hops up front, caramel does come through but is really surprisingly light for an EIPA; the flavor is sweetly smooth through floral, piney tones, subdued caramel only comes in the aftertaste and is barely there, dry yet smooth finish; mostly easy on the palate and carbonation is excellent; overall, wow, an awesome EIPA that is slightly borderline AIPA, no worries, I would have this again
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from SHIG, thanks! Aggressive pour yields two fingers of creamy beige head atop a flat copper-orange body. Good retention throughout the entire glass and thick sheets of lacing. Nose is sweet; citrus, fruity, and caramel. Some herbals. Good hops flavor, mostly pine, light bits of citrus, some caramel malt. Kinda spicey herbals to finish. Off the beaten path of the mainstream IPA… I like it.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Sunken Island IPA from Kenai River Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can: I swear I have bonused this in a few trades and then realized I have never tried it. Poured a dark coppery orange with a two finger lacing off white head. Aroma is sweet candy and fresh juicy hops. Taste is dank with fresh hops bitter and has a balancing malt finish. Spice tingly remains on the tongue.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Sunken Island IPA from Kenai River Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Crisp, slightly hazy copper and light amber coloured body with a dense, three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of caramel, slightly pale malt, earthy and nutty notes, some soapy hops and a bit of sweetness. Medium-bodied; Assertive nutty and earthy hops up front with a metallic and pungent malt note, some caramel and toffee sweetness at the backend and a bit of alcohol bite to finish off. Aftertaste shows more malt and alcohol than hops and a rather unpleasant bitterness that just sticks out, mostly from the alcohol and nutty malt. Overall, a decent beer, but not one of my favourite IPAs nor beers from Alaska - still nice to try, since it was a craft beer in a can from the great state. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from La Bodega in Anchorage, Alaska on 23-May-2013 for US$2.50 sampled at home in Washington on 10-August-2013 a day before leaving for Belgium - for a reminder of what hoppy beers are here stateside.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Sunken Island IPA from Kenai River Brewing Co. 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can courtesy of Wendell, thank you sir! Hazy variegated amber color, medium beige head. Aroma of grass and pine. Taste is pine, citrus, bread. Decent stuff.