Sculpin IPA - Aloha
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.00
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With Aloha Sculpin, we used Brux Trois yeast to turn our award-winning IPA into a tropical oasis, with bright and refreshing notes of mango, pineapple and guava, along with a slight haze and smooth mouthfeel.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can. Dark orange color with thick white head. Aroma of citrus hops, funk, tropical fruits. Taste, solid malty base, tropical fruits, citrus hops. Medium long hoppy bitter finish. Tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jan 2021
at 19:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Die ganze Sculpin-Reihe ist erste Sahne, so auch Mahalo, sorry, Aloha. Trüb im Glas aber nur nur leicht. In der Nase harzig-fruchtige Hopfigkeit. Im Trunk angenehm hopfig und fruchtig, jeweils zur Hälfte gut abgewogen, hinten trocken, nochmal im Abgang etwas blumiger. Schönes süffiges Ding.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2020
at 14:27
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Smell of hops, some spruce. Cloudy amber colour, white head. Aroma of citrus, raw berries, vegetables, champagne, some vinegar in background. Starts off bitter, turns soon sour. Wild carbon.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2020
at 20:09
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Herb hopfiger, süffig herber Beginn. Die Hopfigkeit bleibt konstant, minimal alkoholisch. Okay. 10/7/8/7//8
Tried
on 28 Feb 2020
at 05:12
7/10
Tried
on 13 Nov 2019
at 22:28
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Taster showing straw with sparse white foam. The nose shows moderately intense notes of grapefruit and pine. The palate is well carbonated and medium bodied with a soft mouthfeel. Grapefruit and pine forward with a moderate pine bitterness.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2019
at 12:16
2.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
OK, another can of fricken sculpin for a tick, how many are there? Then on top of that there are a gazillion IPA out there? Doesn't anybody ever get tired of IPA and all the bastardized styles that are really IPA? Just asking. Clear pale in the glass with a big foamy head. I'm not sure why its called aloha because its just another fricken bitter IPA. So much bitterness, you'd never pick out what the aloha flavor was. Yes, nasty nellie negative norton, straight up ass nut sack. There you have it, just another ubiquitous IPA that wants to be an imperial IPA; tastes just like one. Finishes with a warming sensation going down the throat. Not pleasant, at least it doesn't smell like diesel body odor.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2019
at 17:54
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from Legacy LRS, Vancouver
Cloudy to murky dark blond colour. Aroma of pineapple. Good body strength, not too dry, the malt is slightly husky, the hopping is lightly fruity, not very juicy though, and with some chicory bitterness in the finish.
Ok beer.
Cloudy to murky dark blond colour. Aroma of pineapple. Good body strength, not too dry, the malt is slightly husky, the hopping is lightly fruity, not very juicy though, and with some chicory bitterness in the finish.
Ok beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2019
at 06:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can pour into nonic pint glass from The Beer Store, Nashua. Appearance is hazy orange with tons of effervescent sparkle, 2-finger width foamy off-white head with excellent retention and minimal soapy lacing. Aroma is strong orange and lemon citrus, mango, tropical fruit. Taste is dank bitter, citrus, mild fruit and background cracker malt. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with smooth, thin texture, soft-to-average carbonation, pleasant alcohol warmth to the esophagus and finish as taste with lingering mild vegetal bitterness. Overall, aroma is more tropical than taste. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jun 2019
at 02:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can, Legacy. Hazy dull pale, with a thick, bubbly head. The aroma more or less aligns with regular Sculpin, though that's based on memory. Some weedy elements, light tropical fruits, and a fairly noticeable pale malt backdrop. On the palate, this doesn't seem all that fresh. Annoying, because it just arrived here. OK, well, there's still a nice pale malt, but the hops are more on the staler side than I'd like, to the detriment of bright, fruity aromatics. Hearty bitterness, but it's well-balanced. I just wish it was fresher - being 4 months old before hitting the shelves is just not what you want to see in an IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jun 2019
at 05:46