71 Brewing Left Coast

Left Coast

 

71 Brewing in Dundee, Dundee, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  IPA - West Coast Series
Score
6.55
ABV: 5.4% IBU: - Ticks: 25
“Take the highway that is best, follow the Left Coast, way out west”. Classic American Simcoe, Citra and Chinook hops are married to a rich malt backbone. Deep golden in colour with flavours of citrus, pine, tropical fruit and a bold west coast bitterness to finish.
 

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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
44cl can from Lidl. Thin white head. Hazy light amber pour. Nice bitterness. A good brew.
Tried from Can on 08 Aug 2020 at 22:09

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
440ml can from local Lidl store. Pours clear orange golden with a slim white head. Aroma: malt dominant, light caramel, grass. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, malt, grass, caramel, light fruity. Thin to medium body, light carbonation, sweet light bitter finish. Not very West Coast tbh
Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2020 at 21:41

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Draft. A golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of straw, hops, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, straw, and hops, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried from Draft on 24 Jul 2020 at 13:33

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Hazy golden orange with a white head. Aroma of fruity hops and malt behind. Flavour is light sweet and above moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Can from Dorst Craft Beer Shop on 21 May 2020 at 16:40

4.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Can 330ml (Beergium, BB 09/2020)
Hazy dark amber-orange colour, small white head. Harsh dry-yeasty aroma, stale. Light-bodied. Light orange, citrus, pale malts in the flavour. Light acidity. This really feels like it is 7 months old. Harsh overall.
Tried from Can on 15 Apr 2020 at 18:52

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Scottish interpretation of a West Coast IPA, like many others in Europe are doing right now; can from Beergium. Egg-white, frothy, paper-lacing, thick but somewhat irregular head, slowly thinning in the middle, baring a misty, warm peach blonde beer with pale orangey tinge and lively strings of sparkling rising up from the middle. Aroma of pink grapefruit flesh, blood orange peel, frying sweet onions, toasted shallot, dry biscuit, rusk, unripe pineapple, dough, cold apple cake, hints of persimmon juice, halfripe peach, green olives from a jar, vague whiffs of honey and armpit sweat (but very subtle and only when warming up). Crisp onset, fruity with restraint and cleanness but still exhibiting notes of peach, pineapple and ripe pear, medium carbonated, smooth oily body; bread-crusty and soggy rusk-like maltiness with a very thin (in fact hardly noticeable) metallic edge, soon soaked in hoppiness, establishing a citric, mildly piney and subduedly sweet-oniony effect retronasally as well as lasting, yet soft and agile, only briefly peppery and citrus-peel-ish bitterness; soft, fluffy malt sweetishness easily survives this hop phase, but that citrus peel-like effect does linger for a while, admittedly. Like many other European breweries, this '71' brewery in Scotland presents us with a 'postmodern', polished and 'compromised' interpretation of what West Coast IPA once was: this is hazy, fruity and softish (emphasizing -ish), unlike those pioneering IPAs from fifteen to thirty years ago. I had similar experiences with new so-called West Coast IPAs from the Netherlands, France and other countries, as if the brewers in question were too young to have mastered 'craft' IPA's early features - this one, too, is hardly credible as a West Coast IPA, even if it does its job well and nothing even remotely negative can be said about it from a technical viewpoint. Just don't try to make young people believe that the original West Coast IPA, where it all began as far as the global hop-forward movement goes, tasted as soft, gentle and 'friendly' as this citric juice bomb...
Tried from Can on 27 Mar 2020 at 01:37

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can 33 cl. Pours a clear golden with a solid, white head. Lovely fruity/tropical melange in the nose. Medium body, really soft on the palate, lovely fruitiness with a subtle, late bitterness. But really easy going. 100120
Tried from Can on 10 Jan 2020 at 13:08

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33cl can from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours orange gold with abundant but quickly fading white foam, fine. Aroma is citrus and herbaceous. Body is average, like carbonation. Taste is medium bitter. Final is kind of short.
Tried from Can on 27 Nov 2019 at 18:50

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tight off white head on a still reddish brown coloured body Confectionery & hoppy aroma. Medium bodied, sharp on the palate with a clean back. Sweet orange, citrus, grapefruit, grass & confectionery tastes.
Tried on 24 Oct 2019 at 15:27

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml can; BB 17th Jul 2020. Poured at home on 23rd Sep 2019. Very slight haze to the golden body,lasting white head on top. Hoppy with both a piney and citrusy aroma and taste, pretty bitter too. Nice!
Tried from Can on 23 Sep 2019 at 11:45