Kenai River Brewing Co. Sunken Island IPA

Sunken Island IPA

 

Kenai River Brewing Co. in Soldotna, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular
Score
6.60
ABV: 6.8% IBU: - Ticks: 10
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4

Tastes too heavy for me. Chewable, really.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:59


6.6
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.

Tried from Can on 11 Dec 2016 at 10:14


6.8
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.

Tried from Can on 23 Jun 2016 at 04:39


6.2
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.

Tried on 28 Sep 2014 at 16:30


6.8
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!

Tried from Can on 08 Mar 2014 at 20:18


8
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

Tried on 02 Jan 2014 at 21:52


7.2
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.

Tried from Can on 26 Sep 2013 at 04:38


7.3
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.

Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2013 at 22:01


6
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.

Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2013 at 23:53


6.8
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.

Tried from Can on 20 Jan 2012 at 00:45