Gale Force IPA
Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. in Everett, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.58
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. Orangey pour. Kinda skunk some grapefruit and citrus. Pretty inoffensive ipa
tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Gale Force IPA from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at home. Aroma is pale biscuity malt, herbal hops, citrus peel, orange, mild pine, hint of caramel, soft herbal notes with a touch of earthy leafs. Flavour is moderate sweet with a bitter finish that turns a bit harsh. Body is medium. Very different IPA, malty and herbal-ish with a harsh bitterness. Hardly great, but likeable.
Jow (8309) reviewed Gale Force IPA from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from my Total Wine haul. Cloudy dirty orange huge frothy head. Nose is citrus and honey and malt. Tastes of grapefruit, orange peel, honey, rock candy, Malts, some gritty flavors. Chewy mouthfeel. Solid enough
Fisler (3085) reviewed Gale Force IPA from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Starkes Gushing, optisch einwandfrei, perlt noch heftig weiter. In der Nase Weinsäure, das wird mir doch nicht gekippt sein? Im Trunk Zitrus, matt, dann leicht säuerlich, bitter, keine Frucht mehr da. Im Abgang halten die Bitternoten noch lange nach. Eher ein englisches IPA, Alkohol aber kaum auszumachen. Mir zu gewöhnlich.
shrubber (15804) reviewed Gale Force IPA from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Floral tangerine, biscuit malt, pine, and grapefruit peel aroma. Golden yellow with large eggshell white head and mild effervescence. Moderately sweet citrus, biscuit malt, and moderately strong bitter pine/grapefruit peel flavor. Good body. Solid.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle: Hazy golden-yellow with a tall beige head. Pine, grapefruit, grain scent. Fairly sweet greain malt, citrus.....mild resiny bitter in taste. Creamy body....very solid and tasty overall....a little herbal-ness in the finish. (the 96 IBU claim seems a bit inflated, IMO)
LazyPyro (9998) reviewed Gale Force IPA from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
355ml bottle. Clear golden amber colour, dense off white head. Aroma: hoppy, slight funky, fruit, orange. Taste: bitter hoppy, fruity, citrus, orange, grapefruit. Average carbonation, medium body, bitter finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Gale Force IPA from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hybrid of American and English style IPA it seems, since apart from two classic New World hops, an even more classic English noble hop is used. Label mentions an ABV of 5.25% rather than the 5.6% given here, but strangely the brewery’s website also shows the label with 5.25% while mentioning 5.6% in the accompanying text next to it... ’Membranous’, continuous lacing from a medium thick, irregular, egg-white, moussy head on top of an immediately hazy, deep peachy orange coloured beer. Aroma indeed has traits of both ’hop worlds’: orange peel, sweet curry, dried ginger, wet straw, faint pine resin, cooked carrot, white pepper, vague iron, strawberry juice, chicken broth, dried apricot, honey, freshly cut cucumber. Fruity onset but not in a ’wildly’ estery way, just subtle and clean hints of apricot, dried mango and gooseberry, with a slight salty edge from the hops turning to bitter already at an early stage; carbonation remains on the soft side. Underneath, a bready, lightly biscuity malt body develops with a very lightly toasted accent, supporting the hop bitterness which by the end becomes very earthy, resinous, thoroughly tonic water-like bittering and peppery, but not hugely aromatic, apart from some floral and dried citrus peel-like hints; earthy bitterness lasts for a long time and only lets a thin trail of malts through, along with some subtly bready yeastiness. If the idea is to compromise between old English IPA and new American IPA, I think this goal has been relatively well achieved. It has an earthy, tonic water-like bitterness to it which seems more typical for old world hoppiness, while, however, the lush New World aromas underachieve - at first I thought this was due to the age of the bottle, but as far as I can tell, it is not thàt old and the other reviews here seem to convey the same. In all: deeply bittering, quenching and drying IPA, just not fragrant enough, and the faint cooked chicken-like accents in the nose give away that something is a bit ’off’ and out of balance here as well. Among the lesser American IPAs I had so far.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Gale Force IPA from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
13th February 2016
Hazy gold - amber beer, good bubbly cream colour head. Palate is light, dry and mildly crisp. Smooth malts, touches of sweet cream and tangy caramel. Floral bitterness that is getting toward harsh. A little orange peel, well buried. Light semi dry finish. Floral bitter linger. A fairly harsh IPA, like an Imperial Bitter.