Descender IPA
GoodLife Brewing Company in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.29
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The descent from the top of the mountain to the bottom should be exhilarating. Whether it’s a gradual descent or a screaming race that gets you to the bottom, this beer is created to help you enjoy the experience.
Life is loaded with peaks and valleys, where we associate the valleys with the reward post ascending the peak. Like the flow of the stream slows in the valley, put the cell phone away, sit back and relax with this IPA, and enjoy the journey.
This beer is a hop lover’s dream that has balance you will appreciate. We created it for you so you can take time out from the rigors of life and descend to a valley full of hops – sounds good, no, great!
Malt: NW Two Row, Bonlander Munich, Melanoidin, Crystal 60, Carafoam
Hops: Centennial, Chinook, Cascade, Galaxy, Warrior
Brewed with a process called "Hop Bursting," resulting in a beer with a balance and quality that you will not forget!
17°
Life is loaded with peaks and valleys, where we associate the valleys with the reward post ascending the peak. Like the flow of the stream slows in the valley, put the cell phone away, sit back and relax with this IPA, and enjoy the journey.
This beer is a hop lover’s dream that has balance you will appreciate. We created it for you so you can take time out from the rigors of life and descend to a valley full of hops – sounds good, no, great!
Malt: NW Two Row, Bonlander Munich, Melanoidin, Crystal 60, Carafoam
Hops: Centennial, Chinook, Cascade, Galaxy, Warrior
Brewed with a process called "Hop Bursting," resulting in a beer with a balance and quality that you will not forget!
17°
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7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 6
Clear gold body with white head. Light hop aroma. Full taste with grassy malt and hop balance Hoppy finish
Tried
on 27 May 2023
at 05:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can from a beverage center unfortunately didn’t check canned on date as a touch old. Golden orange pour. Nose is slight melon and pine. Tastes of pine, grapefruit, honey dew, bready, caramel as well. Medium bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Dec 2021
at 02:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From can to glass. Pine and citrus aromas. Slightly hazed and orange. Flavor is piney and citrus. Moderate bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Aug 2021
at 02:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz can. Pours a dull amber with moderate head. Aromas of mashed fruit, melons, and doughy malts. Flavors of follow same with additional pomegranate, grapefruit, and light resin. Soft. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jul 2019
at 03:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dégustée au printemps 2016 (De mes notes). .
Tried
on 21 Aug 2017
at 22:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a russet amber from a can. Fruity/piney aroma. Flavor is similar with a somewhat too sweet malt backbone. Good beer.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Aug 2017
at 19:44
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
A nice slightly hazy golden and light copper coloured body with a small three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pine, grapefruit, grass and light malt. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong malty flavour with toffee, caramelised sugar, grains and earth all noticeable and only a touch of bitterness, some sweetness from honey and caramel and a little earth on the taail end. Aftertaste is rich from the malt, showing some alcohol bitterness and a touch of grain, but no real hop flavours at all. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from The Liquor Collection in Honolulu, O’ahu, Hawaii on 30-December-2015 for US$2,25 sampled on the train from Washington to New York on 01-December-2016.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2017
at 23:04
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can, thanks to 5000. Pours faintly cloudy copper color with large foamy off-white head, citrusy aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter mango-citrus taste, smooth body, long medium bitter finish. Very smooth and tasty hops profile.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Dec 2016
at 17:26
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12oz can from The Grapevine
Pours cloudy golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma of citrus, tropical fruit and oranges. Flavor of grapefruit, oranges and lemon
Very tasty ipa
Pours cloudy golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma of citrus, tropical fruit and oranges. Flavor of grapefruit, oranges and lemon
Very tasty ipa
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2015
at 22:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy burnt orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute leaving some light lacing roaming all about.
The smell started off with a big burst of citrus hops running over light piney notes and then a slight floral setting balances within.
The taste copied the smell to have a nice bittersweet burst of hops to malts, nicely balanced. A light piney to citrus aftertaste leads into a refined sweet citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonation feels right for an AIPA - slightly back to allow the hops to take the lead on the bitterness and harshness on my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA that I would have again.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy burnt orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute leaving some light lacing roaming all about.
The smell started off with a big burst of citrus hops running over light piney notes and then a slight floral setting balances within.
The taste copied the smell to have a nice bittersweet burst of hops to malts, nicely balanced. A light piney to citrus aftertaste leads into a refined sweet citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonation feels right for an AIPA - slightly back to allow the hops to take the lead on the bitterness and harshness on my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA that I would have again.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2015
at 16:58