Big Eye

Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸

IPA - West Coast Rotating

Score

7.40

ABV: 7.0%

IBU: 71

Ticks: 208

Our Big Eye IPA is a big hoppy brew, thanks to the abundance of American Columbus and Centennial varieties we use to flavor and dry hop. While the English originally added extra hops to preserve their beers for sea travel, we do it for the love of all that bold, intense flavor that makes India Pale Ale one of our favorite styles.

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7.5

Maverick (5074) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 8 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught from Blind Tiger. Poured a light brown with mild head. Nice aromas of hops toffee and such. Very good in the end.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 00:51

PLohbauer (1111) ticked Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 11 months ago

RB score 3.75

Tried from Bottle on 06 Mar 2025 at 21:06

7.1

Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 11 months ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Big nose of american hops, hence the huge aroma of lemon, and grapefruit, with some pine in there. Flavour is dominated by the hops, not much of a malt base in here, just a hop monster of an IPA.

Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:36

8.4

tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 1 year ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is resinous hops, big pine, tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, robust malt, caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet with a long bitter finish. Medium bodied. Very piney and hoppy with a study malty backbone, strong bittersweet flavour, great balance... I dig it!

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2025 at 04:50

kristincedar (7052) ticked Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 1 year ago

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:51

6.4

mcm1 (3805) ticked Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 5 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Early rating from Beer Buddy app

Tried on 28 Nov 2020 at 20:10

6.4

Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 5 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Dunkler, hopfig herber Beginn. Minimal bitter, deutlich ansteigend, hell holzig. Hopfig bitterer Abgang. 10/11/10/9//10

Tried on 28 Feb 2020 at 05:38

7.5

tokyobeerdrinker (9001) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap at Craftheads. Golden colour, small off white head. Aroma is refreshing, citrus spiky, nice maltiness. Taste is good too, citrus, malty spicy. Very easy drinking.

Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 15:53

6.3

Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

From can. Straw, grass and citric hops in the aroma and flavor. A. Soft tartness. Grassy finish.

Tried from Can on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:04

AlanG51 (139) ticked Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Grapefruit with a malt backbone

Tried on 07 Jun 2019 at 10:09