Ballast Point Brewing Company Sculpin IPA - Aloha

Sculpin IPA - Aloha

 

Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
7.00
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 70 Ticks: 85
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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7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Sample at Daily Growler Powell during A Hoofy Hoppy Snakesgiving Pre Party + Mixing Bowl Asian Grill on 11/21/2018. Hazy dark golden color with a medium of-white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Strings of lace. Tropical fruit, piney hops and malt in the nose. Medium body with flavors of citrusy hops, pine, pineapple and malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a tropical fruit and hop aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried from Growler on 04 Feb 2019 at 16:39

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Pours lightly hazy orange-gold. It has a nice tropical fruit aroma. The flavor includes tasty hop bitterness with tropical fruit (as advertised) and a solid malt presence to balance it. Medium bodied. Quite good.
Tried on 27 Jan 2019 at 22:03

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Slightly hazy golden and light copper coloured body with a nice two to three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of resin, pine, light tropical fruits, some grain and a heavy dose of alcohol still noticeable on the finish in the nose. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive biscuity and grainy malts at first with a big dose of tropical fruits,light resin and a hint of pine near the end, but the focus clearly is on the malts and way less so from the hop perspective, which is very odd for the style and the brewery. Aftertaste shows a strong malt bite with a good resin and pine finish, but not too much malts or grain, and only a small dose of the bitterness at the very end. Overall, a decent, but lacking-in-many-aspects beer that shows the malt at first and much less of the hops than I expected, especially given the other from the Sculpin series. That said, great to sample, here, actually in Hawai'i! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from the Kona Wine Market in Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i [island] on 29-December-2018 for US$4,00 sampled in my hotel room here in Kona, Hawai'i [island] on 03-January-2019.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2019 at 23:25

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from Brewcraft at home. Had seen this around for a while but hadn’t tried despite enthusiasm for older Sculpins. First surprise - it’s not really hazy. Golden translucent pour with some medium white head. Second surprise - aroma is more Belgian-y esters than anything, some tropical fruit - papaya - hop, and vaguely like cleaning fluid (sort of in the papaya). Taste is also like a Belgian/white IPA in its clove/banana, with papaya/pineapple hops, some sweet caramel malt and alcohol warmth on the finish. Medium carbonation, smooth palate. Totally not what I expected. Not bad for a Belgian-style IPA actually, just not what I thought based on name. Maybe not handled well? Not sure.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2019 at 16:15

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Flaska från SB. Tack Vignale. Mörkt gyllengul, lätt disig vätska med krämigt vitt skum. Söt doft av mogen tropisk frukt, färskpressad grape, tall och resin. Precis som orignalet en stor maffig IPA som sätter smakerna och balansen riktigt bra. Lite mer frukt här och riktigt gott.
Tried on 25 Nov 2018 at 21:56

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Solid, well-made ipa. Lacing head and a gold beer, just a little haze. The aroma does have tropical fruit and it is a good fit for the base beer. Fruity, lightly sweet, bread, and moderately hopped. The bitterness is not very high. This is a fun beer.
Tried on 24 Nov 2018 at 06:12

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
(Tap) hazy, bright orange amber colour with a small cream head; aroma of citrus; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried from Draft on 02 Nov 2018 at 21:27

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
On tap at Lunar, Chiang Mai. Medium white head. Very hazy light amber pour. Lovely bitterness.
Tried from Draft on 16 Oct 2018 at 10:48

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
A hazed golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with loads of citrusy resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice. On tap at Chicago location.
Tried from Draft on 30 Sep 2018 at 20:17

8/10
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