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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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can: Citrus and piney aroma, lightly sweet. The pour is a dirty orange and yellow with a ridiculously large sandy head. Really nice hops flavor, citrus and pine. Sweet with minimal bitterness. Light bits of lingering floral hops.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Feb 2015
at 08:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Big Frothy white head. Golden color. Big caramel malt and grapefruit notes. Medium full body. Hoppy with lots of citrus. Decent aggressive bitter finish. Nice west coast IPA.
Tried
on 19 Jan 2015
at 22:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Etched glass bottle. Pours yellow gold white head. Nose/taste of pine, light alcohol caramel malts and citrus. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2014
at 14:44
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Bend pub. Pours out a hazy golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice super tropical fruit floral hops and a nice malt end. Taste is also very nice tropical fruit pine citrus caramel sweetness and a nice end.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Oct 2014
at 15:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz can, thanks Amber. Aroma is candy sweet, pine, perfume, floral, grapefruit. Pours slightly hazy golden with a huge off-white fluffy head with excellent retention; laces nicely. Taste is bittersweet with an emphasis on bitter. Body is medium to nearly thin, carbonation high. Nice enough.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2014
at 17:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy dull tan, lots of grapefruity hop, With a touch of style grapefruit hop. A bit chewy in the malt character. Ok IPA but arguably this lacks brightness.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2014
at 13:34
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle at the Watford tasting 26/07/14. Thanks to Ed. Translucent bright orange with a Ricky white head and good sticky lace. Aroma is big nice big resinous, pine needles and some dank orange. Flavour is sticky resin, orange peel, pine hop. Decent base malts, light caramel. Palate is lovely sticky resin and mouth filling carbonation. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2014
at 13:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft - Sweet citrus and grapefruit, with a sweet malt backbone. Cloudy orange with a good white head. Sweet grapefruit and an upfront bitterness that lingers like pith. Floral and a long finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jul 2014
at 12:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bomber c/o Elise. Slightly hazy orange-tan. Foamy white head. Pretty solid NW IPA. Lots of hop depth. There is some nice hop depth..pine,citrus, straw, and a hint of mellow tropical fruit. Great mouthfeel, just an all around enjoyable, well-crafted IPA.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2014
at 21:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Pours a hazy amber with a floral hop filled aroma. Hop lover beer for sure. A little bit of sweet fruit in there too. Finishes really smooth and full of flavor. Easy drinking. Very well done.
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2014
at 19:40