Sculpin IPA - Aloha
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.01
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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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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle from work. Aroma is mango, passionfruit, strawberry, alcohol. Pours clear new penny copper with a thick bone-white head with good retention. Taste is moderately to highly bitter with flavors of tropical fruit, grapefruit pith, booze. Alcohol seems strong in this considering the somewhat modest ABV. Looking at the bottle, I see it's 7% ABV, not 6% like it says up there in the description. It's not bad, but I was expecting much more from this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2018
at 02:13
6/10
Not impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2018
at 16:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Ballast Point Miramar. Hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of pineapple, hops and some light spices. The same in the taste. The finish was rather bitter.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Feb 2018
at 15:35
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
RBWG 2018. Draft at R&D. Hazy golden color white head. Funky dank aroma. Taste is herbal with light funk.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jan 2018
at 15:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft - Light funky citrus. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Funky and bitter citrus with a dry finish. Not as good as original.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jan 2018
at 22:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Ballast Point - Scripps Ranch, pours a cloudy creamsicle golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out subdued brett, with some pithy stone fruits in there. Flavour is very bitter, with tons of piney hops, aggressive brett and a bone dry aggressive astringency on the finish. Rather extreme beer, but it works well. Nicely done.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2017
at 03:04