Castaway IPA
Kona Brewing Company in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.79
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Take a sip of this copper-colored India Pale Ale and you’ll taste bold, citrusy hops with a touch of mango and passionfruit balanced by rich caramel malts. Castaway IPA has a clean, crisp finish that’s as fresh as the wind in your face when you set sail for adventure.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Copper colored pour, good clarity, and about two fingers of fluffed sandy head. The nose is citrus and tropical fruit, with a little bready malt mixed in. The taste is mainly citrus fruit, light florals, and faintly herbal. Nice lingering bitterness in the tail, but sweet enough to keep it very approachable. Good hop flavor overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2014
at 10:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 6%. Good fruity hop aroma, mango with a little paper. Cloudy golden colour. Small stable white head. The flavour starts off quite bitter. Turns more fruity afterwards, but not sweet. Ends on a clean and dry bitter note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2014
at 06:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours slightly hazy amber with airy white head. Clear aroma of hops, with notes of citrus, fruit and grass. Intense, bitter, hoppy flavor, with notes of citrus and touches of grass. Fruity and estery hints. Lingering, bitter and rough aftertaste. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2014
at 10:15
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12th August 2014
GBBF Day 1. Bottle share. Almost clear gold beer, small white head. Palate is light, semi dry and crisp. Light pale malts. Floral tones. Nice lemon led citric hops blend well with floral flavours. Light crisp finish. Nice.
GBBF Day 1. Bottle share. Almost clear gold beer, small white head. Palate is light, semi dry and crisp. Light pale malts. Floral tones. Nice lemon led citric hops blend well with floral flavours. Light crisp finish. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2014
at 12:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from GBBF 2014 and drunk at home. Gold clear lasting thin white head. Fresh grapefruit hop aroma. Plenty of grapefruit in the mouth. Fresh tasty some tropical fruits too. Really reminded me of a Kernel IPA. Malts are there and fine and keep the hops in check, but don’t do much else. Some mild bitterness on the finish. Lovely fresh hoppy IPA. Love the grapefruity tropical fruit flavours. Just like biting into fresh fruit. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2014
at 10:52
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured an amber/orangey color ale with a medium size foamy head with good retention and some light lacing. Aroma of citrus hops with light floral undertones is quite nice. Taste is also dominated by citrus hoppy notes with light bitterness and some dry caramel malt. Dry hops notes are not as dominant as I would have expected based on the product description. Body is about average with good carbonation. Enjoyable IPA but nothing I would seek again necessarily.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2014
at 11:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours translucent gold with a slight white head. Aroma is lots of fruity and floral hop. Med body at least. Flavor is floral with caramel to start, but some fruit, arguably including tropical comes in. It’s bitter, so there must be a lot of other than floral. Lots of flavor, but the milder sort of hop flavors. Might twig a few folks across the pond. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2014
at 17:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(bottle, 35.5cl) Almost clear, golden colour with a blond and short foamy head. Fruit-accented hoppy aroma with notes of citrus, tangerine and melon, backed by mildly bready malt and a whiff of toffee. Mildly bitter and delicately flavour, light to medium bodied with a moderate carbonation. Dry malty base with hints of cara-malt and a present hops character with fruity and slightly exotic accents; quite dry hop bitter finish with fruity and slightly herbal notes and a mildly malty backbone. 19.VIII.14
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2014
at 16:52