Hibiscus IPA
Coronado Brewing Company in Coronado, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Maui Brewing CompanyIPA Regular
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Score
6.65
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CBC and our fellow islanders at Maui Brewing Co. are bridging the distance from Hawaii to the mainland with big flavor, camaraderie and generosity. This Centennial, Chinook and Nugget-stoked IPA, made floral with the addition of hibiscus flower, is the first of an annual series of collaborative beers benefiting local charities. This time around, a donation will be made to “Beer For Boobs”, a Susan G. Komen 3-Day team formed by San Diego company White Labs, who contributed the yeast for this brew. No matter which side of the Pacific you’re on, there’s no better reason to “Drink Pink!”
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Cloudy amber body. Frothy, off-white head, rapidly diminishing. Floral aroma along with citrus and toasted grain. Hibiscus, orange. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly sweet, moderately bitter, lightly tart. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Strong hibiscus taste bumps into lingering bitterness and the two clash more than work together. Still, this is an interesting beer with more complexity than most IPAs.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Mar 2013
at 17:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
OK, hibiscus? Is this going to work? The 22oz bomber pours clear copper with a short lived off white head that attained a pinkish sort of hue. The aroma offers up modest fruity berry like notes, I guess this is Hibiscus, if I had a better understanding of it, lavender floral and a bit of citrus hops. The taste has a tea to lavender floral to a bitter citrus to start with and then running toward sort of near tart like berry notes. Nice mix of flavors where there’s a pleasing balance of malts, hops and floral notes.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2013
at 20:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A reddish pinkish IPA with a thin white head. In aroma, caramel malt with fragrant tropical fruits, hops, flowers, beautiful. In mouth, a beautiful crisp malt with light fruit acidity, floral hops, delicious and acidic. At the REAL gastropub, Zwanze day, Dec. 1 2012.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2013
at 15:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, live rate. Pours with a lightly hazed, deep red to blood hued body with an off-white head. Aromas are packed with herbal, citrus, floral, dank, tangerine, hibiscus, DMTS hop notes. Pretty grassy. Low malt, medium esters. Lightly tropical. Flavors are a bit earthy, herbal, high co-humulone. Slight turnoff from what I was expecting. Still some lightly tart and floral hibiscus. Earthy, resin, crisp, light tangerine zest. Brisk finish, dry, somewhat crisp. Fuller carbonation with a lighter body. Didn’t quite live up to what I was expecting for some reason.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2012
at 18:19