IPA
Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Hermitage Brewing CompanyIPA - West Coast Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.22
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Introducing our year-round Almanac IPA, a West Coast hop bomb overflowing with hop flavors and aromas. We start with a copper-hued malt base of California-grown two-row barley, German Vienna Malt, Crystal Malts and Biscuit Malt. Then we start layering on the hops—grown all along the west coast in California, Oregon and Washington. We combine Magnum, Chinook, Cascade, El Dorado and Simcoe to create our own unique twist on the IPA style with intense aromas of grapefruit and tangerine peel, pineapple and pine trees. The finish has a clean bitterness and light saltine cracker note.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Another good Almanac brew. Poured with a thick, long lasting head, and lots of foamy lace. Grapefruit aroma. Flavor’s cereal, hops, balanced bittersweet. Yum
Tried
on 20 Dec 2016
at 22:21
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber bought in Hawaii. Tropical fruit and stone fruit in the nose, with rich, biscuit malt. Oranges, touch of detergent. Deep golden orange, hazy, with lace. Sweet and soft, rich malt and lots of fruit, mostly jams. Or baked fruit, marmalade, etc. not fresh citrus. Pine, too, a lot. Honey. Fun stuff. Possibly not super fresh.
Tried
on 19 Oct 2016
at 04:46
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours amber with a large head.Nose shows piny, floral and fruity hops, some melon and passion fruit notes.Flavours include melon, spicy hops, floral notes, aggressive bitterness, sweet clean malt.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2016
at 21:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ Beer Temple, 5 oz, with Kermis. Hazy golden color. Uneven, a bit rocky white head, with some lacing. Aroma’s: resinous, citrus, caramel. Retronasal there’s citrus, caramel, some resin. Flavor is moderate sweet-moderate bitter. Medium bodied. Rather bitter finish. Again I had the impression this was not very fresh...
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2016
at 01:20
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft at Beer Temple. Near clear golden with a white head. Aroma of caramel malt, a little dough, orange peel, citrus and light tropical fruits. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. [25/08/16]
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2016
at 08:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
The Sampler, Brooklyn can: pours orange with a white head. Aroma is grapefruit, pineapple, and pine without the apple. Nice amount of tropical fruit in the taste while maintaining a hefty dosage of hop bitterness. Pretty good.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Aug 2016
at 21:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy light tan. Piney hop nose. Moderate bitterness, quite a bit if sweetness. A bit yeasty, some citrus.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2016
at 20:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at St Augustine's, pours a close pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out fresh piney hops upfront, with some sticky hop resins and biscuity malt. Flavour is super fresh, with lovely piney hops dominating the palate, followed by some sticky hop resins and just enough biscuity malt. Nothing extraordinary but it's an excellent by the books west coast piney IPA that is underrated.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jul 2016
at 00:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at St. Augustines on Rare Beer Tap Takeover. Tropical fruits pleasant aroma. Same fruits bitterness in taste and aftertaste. Very good IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jul 2016
at 21:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap at the Hoppy Pub, Thessaloniki. Almost clear dark amber color with off white head. Malty aroma, caramel and bread, light hoppy piney notes. Sweet and bitter like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation. Probably old beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2016
at 13:29