Sock Knocker IIPA
Coronado Brewing Company in Coronado, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.36
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Sock Knocker pours golden orange, with a hoppy, citrus flavor that lingers well into the finish. Amarillo, Centennial, Columbus and Simcoe hops unite to create an immensely floral, botanical nose and a veritable explosion of citrus and pine on the palate. With an even more obscene hop overload than Coronado’s infamous Idiot IPA, Sock Knocker is an India Pale Ale truly deserving of its imperial crown.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a vibrant peach-gold color with a medium sized foamy white head that left great lacing. The aroma was sweet and tangy tropical fruit and a bit of pine. The flavor was tangy and sweetish with tropical fruit, pine and a hint of a medicinal note. Long finish with a growing alcohol presence. Moderately full bodied. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2016
at 13:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle - Sweet tropical fruit notes. Clearish gold with a decent white head. Sweet, fruity and a light bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2016
at 01:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared during RBWG 2016. Pours clear gold with a creamy white head. The nose has ripe citrus fruits, light pine, orange. Medium sweet flavor with nice tropical fruits, melon, mango, papaya, some piney bitterness. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Lightly resinous on the finish, more mango, papaya, pine, pale bread, booze. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2016
at 00:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle split in the hotel lobby, 03/02/16. Golden orange with a decent off white covering. Nose is bitter orange, pine, straw, grapefruit. Taste comprises orange pith, toasted malt, pine, grapefruit, sharp melon. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying peppered with hop bitterness. Decent enough DIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2016
at 23:27
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Keg at Tommyknocker Helsinki, 20151219) The beer poured deep golden and hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had herbalness, spices and vinegar. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, spiciness, vinegar, malts, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste was sour and bitter. I am really confused if this keg was stale or as it should be.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2015
at 15:16
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
355ml bottle. Barely clear, faint, yellow-ish golden colour with small thick, creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, snow-white head. Citrusy and piney hoppy aroma is condensed like astronaut nutrition, only some sugary and zesty lemon flavours evade this black hole’s almond malty gravity centre’s grasp. Taste is pungent bitter hoppy, citrusy, minimally chalky and zesty lemon notes; full-bodied, forthright, well set up - but tolerable without garter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2015
at 15:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bouteille 355ml. Orangée-dorée, col crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme est fleuri sorte de jardin parfumé très américain, fruité légèrement tropical avec un rétro de pin. Palais offre une fine note de grains, épicé, fruité pointe tropicale avec un côté pâle, caramel, léger abricot, résineux et une touche de pamplemousse.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2015
at 15:46
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Draught @ Bier-Bier, Helsinki. Pours orange with a smooth head. Aroma of tartish fruits, mild sourness, caramely malts and citrus. Taste is malty, caramely and mildly sour with some fruits and grassy hops. Finish is tartish and malty with some mild sourness. Feels a bit off. Will have to re-rate.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2015
at 10:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Bier Bier, Helsinki. Colour is cloudy light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, dryness, grape, hops and malts. Not bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2015
at 12:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Crisp, slightly hazy golden and honey coloured body with a nice, dense, three centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of tropical and hybrid hops with a good dose of biscuits and malt right behind. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong hoppy flavour at first with resin, pineapple, passionfruit, guava, flowers and a little malt as well noticeable. Aftertaste is a good balance between sweet, hoppy and malty with perhaps more of the finish showing sugar qualities rather than hops. Overall, a nice beer that shows quite nicely and mellow, especially considering the alcohol. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 05-July-2015 for US$3,99 sampled at home in Washington on 20-October-2015.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2015
at 00:37