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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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cloudy amber, offwhite froth. Resin and caramel aroma, hints of rubber. Mouthfeel is slick and oily. Fruity, piney flavour. Solid caramely backing, passionfruit. Has a nice DIPAish roughness to it. Nice.
Tried
on 26 Jun 2016
at 11:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Big offwhite head. Clear coppery body. Fruity resiny citric aroma with raisiny tropical fruit notes. Sweetish raisiny toffee tropical fruit taste with spicy wooden vanilla fudge notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft mouthfeel. Sweetish orangey toffee and spice aftertaste with vanilla fudge notes. It’s pretty good, but again it would probably be infinitely better when fresh. (0.65l bottle, from Fish & Beer, Copenhagen.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2016
at 14:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber pours with a very near clear pure gold body that supports a white head of foam. The aroma offers up malt sweetened pineapple, grapefruit and other various soft citrus notes. The taste delivers a moderate level of bitter grapefruit and pineapple and then getting into a bit of cantaloupe and malts. Nice. It creates a bit more bitter fruity hoppiness than it does thin strands of tropical fruity juiciness. It ends even with pineapple and a thin cracker malt sensation.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2016
at 19:45
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at Mckay’s Taphouse, Bellingham
Blond color. A bit animal, fruity, sweet, but overall balanced. Nice.
Blond color. A bit animal, fruity, sweet, but overall balanced. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Apr 2016
at 00:19
8/10
Tried
on 07 Mar 2016
at 03:44
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Almanac tap takeover at PreFunk Nampa Clear orange, light amber. Strong resinous flavors and aromas from this hoppy IPA I didnt love the flavors though. Seemed chemically and harsh. Lacking the more fresh bright up front hop character.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2016
at 00:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a glossy to hazy almost burnt orange/yellow color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head. Light semi-foamy lacing.
The smell starts off with a nice sweet maltiness up front with a sweet citrus and a nice light sweet to semi-bitter piney-ness in the background.
The taste replicates the smell nicely. Moving sweet over my tastebuds, delicate in the aftertaste and gives off a decent dry feel in the finish.
On the palate, this one sits about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionable smooth feel about it. Carbonation felt nice.
Overall, for an AIPA that is \"west coast styled,\" I say it works. I’d have again.
The appearance was a glossy to hazy almost burnt orange/yellow color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head. Light semi-foamy lacing.
The smell starts off with a nice sweet maltiness up front with a sweet citrus and a nice light sweet to semi-bitter piney-ness in the background.
The taste replicates the smell nicely. Moving sweet over my tastebuds, delicate in the aftertaste and gives off a decent dry feel in the finish.
On the palate, this one sits about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionable smooth feel about it. Carbonation felt nice.
Overall, for an AIPA that is \"west coast styled,\" I say it works. I’d have again.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2016
at 18:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the hanging bat. Pours hazy pale orange, nose is grapefruit, burnt toffee, pine, taste is juicy pithy grapefruit, sweet toffee.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2016
at 00:46
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 5
Keg at ushers... Hazy amber... Small white head.. Soft sweet passion.. Caramel toffee fruit nose... Sweet crystal toffee fruit
Tried
on 01 Jan 2016
at 09:49
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz. @ home. [ As Almanac India Pale Ale ].Clear medium to dark orange color with a average to large, open and frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, pine, orange - citrus, wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, caramel, hoppy, fruity, woody, citrus - orange, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20151230]
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 09:25