Sculpin IPA - Grapefruit
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.57
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Our Grapefruit Sculpin is the latest take on our signature IPA. Some may say there are few ways to improve Sculpin’s unique flavor, but the tart freshness of grapefruit perfectly complements our IPA’s citrusy hop character. Grapefruit’s a winter fruit, but this easy-drinking ale tastes like summer.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Light Amber color. Big big grapefruit nose. Decent acidity in the mouth slightly tart with tons of grapefruit. Big hoppiness and the grapefruit adds fantastic depth, and complments them very well. Decent bitter finish. Awesome.
Tried
on 19 Jan 2015
at 22:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours light bright amber into a snifter. White head with good retention recedes leaving soapy lacing. Smells like breakfast with sweet and sour grapefruit citrus aromas. Sharp grapefruit upfront turning to sweet caramel before returning to grapefruit in the lasting finish. lots o’ grapefruit.
Tried
on 19 Jan 2015
at 16:57
8.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Rosehip, grapefruit, and lilly nose. Hazy amber, medium head. Grapefruit and honey nose, marigold and grapefruit finish. Some grassy notes also in the end. Medium body easy carbonation, nice bitter hop bite. Exactly as billed with a surprising amount of complexity, not a one trick pony. Worth all the hype.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2015
at 20:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
At a tasting, many thanks Ariel, smallish creamy head, a little deep clear gold color, aroma of red grapefruit and some lemon, same traits in flavor with hints of malt in the back, medium to strong but quite mellow bitterness. Very good and really easy to drink, just like a grapefruit juice.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2015
at 05:25
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle sample at a tasting at Stas’s place. Thanks Ariel. Clear golden. Big grapefruit aroma with some nice fruity hops underneath. Flavor has light light sweetness but is mostly bitter, with grapefruit and fruity and slightly piney hops. Medium-bodied. Very grapefruity, maybe even a bit too much, but still very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2015
at 05:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at Beer Run. Pours a clear copper with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of spicy, citrus hops, grapefruit, toffee. The taste is melon, grapefruit, grapefruit rind. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 25 Dec 2014
at 18:09