Big Eye
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Rotating|
Score
7.40
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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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Slightly hazy amber with small tan head. Aroma is malt, fruit, caramel, citrus, grapefruit and pine. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, hops, citrus, pine, medium sweet, little pine and medium bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2013
at 22:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours clear copper/amber with creamy offwhite head. Aroma is bitter grapefruit with notes of fudge and cream. Also notes of spruce, peach, melon, malt and spice (coriander & nutmeg). Taste is medium bitter, light acidic, light umami and light sweet. Body is light creamy (milky) with soft carbonation. Finish is long, bitter and dry with notes of citrus (lemon, lime, grapefruit, pomelo), but also spruce, resin, pine seeds, fudge, milk, flowers, perfume and faint hints of sweet licorice. Great mouthful and excellent complexity!
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2013
at 13:26
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
24.07.2013, 0,65l bottle sampled @ BBGTC "best-before-last-summer-tasting" :
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly neutral, light malts, hops, caramel, grass, sugar, leafs. Taste is sweet and slightly harsh, light malts, sugar, grass, hops, cardboard, citrus peel, wet leafs, bark. Longlasting bitterness, dry mouthfeel. Best before long time ago.
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly neutral, light malts, hops, caramel, grass, sugar, leafs. Taste is sweet and slightly harsh, light malts, sugar, grass, hops, cardboard, citrus peel, wet leafs, bark. Longlasting bitterness, dry mouthfeel. Best before long time ago.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2013
at 02:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Multiple samples @ Empire Brew Fest. Flavor is resinous/pine, caramel, slight citrus. Bitterness is a bit on the harsh side. Very dry texture, medium to light body with soft carbonation and a dry and long lingering bitter finish. I fell the Sculpin is the much better IPA.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2013
at 17:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Super Brugsen, Copenhagen - Colour is a fuzzy amber. Taste and aroma is citrus fruits, caramel malts. Good bitter finish. Decent ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2013
at 08:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours golden with a creamy white head. Aroma of malt, fruity hops, grapefruit, resin. Flavor is malt, fruity hops, grapefruit, little resin. Medium body, average carbonation, light bitter finish. 290613
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2013
at 08:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught. Orange cloudy with thick white head. Hoppier than a Cape Ale, this is an English style IPA. Citrus hop flavour, citrus aroma and finish. Drink this if you find it.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2013
at 15:29
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Kvickly. Clear orange with a big and lasting off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and rather hoppy - peach and grapefruit. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 200613
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2013
at 11:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Gylden klar skum hvid Humle grape citrus bitter meget sød lidt Vandede livig @ ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
on 13 Jun 2013
at 07:39
10/10
Tried
on 19 May 2013
at 14:17