Luped In IPA
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.88
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The hops (Humulus Lupulus) are the real star of this San Diego-style IPA, showcasing bright notes of apricots, citrus, tropical fruits, and berries. Light malt notes and a smooth bitterness lead to an easy and drinkable finish.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at the source. Clear yellow, white head. Tropical fruit, pineapple, resin.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2021
at 18:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours lightly hazy gold. Citrusy and tropical fruit aroma. It tastes of tropical fruit, some hop resin, and good, aggressive bitterness. Very good ipa.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2021
at 05:46
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
$3.14 can, TWSP. Hazy pale gold with a large, soft white head. Resin, pine, citrus peel nose. Floral hops, resin, pine, apricot, green leaf. Lingering resin.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Dec 2020
at 05:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Super clear coloured body with peach and orange tints and a deeper golden glow with a thinnish, single to two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of deep, floral, grassy and very herbal hops with a dry and bitter bite that has a great scent with some tropical fruit notes thrown in as well. Medium-bodied; Strong dry and grassy flavours at first with a bitter, floral and perfumey hop characteristic with a dry bite and some smoother, tropically fruity sweetness with a hint of citrus towards the end. Aftertaste is very well-balanced with a nice dry characteristic, but the biting hops and resulting bitterness are well-structured against the supporting malts that go down fairly easily, all with a pleasant, light sweetness that provides balance as well. Overall, a very nice beer as I was expecting from AleSmith with a nice pungency, but easy-to-drink quality. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 02-November-2020 for US$3,49 sampled at my house here in Washington on 07-December-2020.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2020
at 08:33
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Orange coloured. Leafy, piney hops, malty, fairly sweet, a bit sticky. Pretty good.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2020
at 10:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce can from Niemuth's, 9/11/20. Hazy orange, thin white head, good retention. Aroma of orange, apricot, pale malt. Taste is marmalade, apricot, pale malt. Medium bodied, low bitterness, juicy. My last tick before VACATION!!!!
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2020
at 03:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Some citrus, ok malt. Golden pour with good lacing, not so much head. Light bitter end. Not much here. Tap at Alesmith.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2020
at 19:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Golden with a white head - Fruity hop aroma - Malt body with a fruity and herbal hop flaovur that gives some nice bitterness - The fruity hop bitterness goes into the finish - This was nice
Tried
on 18 Jul 2020
at 16:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a chill haze gole with a small white head. Aroma is grapefruit and pine hops. This just smells bitter. Flavor is all citrus fruit hops with the accompanying bitterness. Maybe a little thin but this is a perfect example of 2005 IPA.
Tried
on 17 May 2020
at 00:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dumpf hopfiger Beginn. Hell malzig, wenig herb, geringe Würzigkeit. Mittellanger Abgang, okay. 10/8/9/9//9
Tried
on 29 Feb 2020
at 01:34