King's Blockhouse
Devil's Peak Brewing Company in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 🇿🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.88
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Our flagship IPA won best beer on show at the 2011, 2012 and 2014 Cape Town Festival of Beer, the 2014 Johannesburg Festival of Beer – and was the winner of the 2014 SAB Craft Brewer Championship. Enjoy our take on this iconic style.
Aroma: A prominent to hop aroma with a citrusy, floral, resinous, piney, and passion fruit character derived from the American hops. It has been dry hopped to add aroma. Some clean malty sweetness may be found in the background, but is a lot lower level than in English examples.
Appearance: Color is medium gold. It is almost clear, which is achieved through fining. Good head with white to off-white color should persist.
Flavour: Hop flavour is medium-high and will reflect typical American hop characters with citrusy, floral, resinous, piney and passion fruit aspects. Medium-high hop bitterness is present, although the malt backbone will support the strong hop character and provide for good balance. Medium-dry to dry finish.
Mouthfeel: Smooth medium-bodied mouthfeel without hop-derived astringency, although moderate carbonation can combine to render an overall dry sensation in the presence of malt sweetness.
Overall Impression: A decidedly hoppy and bitter, moderately strong American India Pale Ale.
Vital Statistics:
Style: American IPA
OG: 1.057
FG: 1.012
IBUs: 56
ABV: 6%
Aroma: A prominent to hop aroma with a citrusy, floral, resinous, piney, and passion fruit character derived from the American hops. It has been dry hopped to add aroma. Some clean malty sweetness may be found in the background, but is a lot lower level than in English examples.
Appearance: Color is medium gold. It is almost clear, which is achieved through fining. Good head with white to off-white color should persist.
Flavour: Hop flavour is medium-high and will reflect typical American hop characters with citrusy, floral, resinous, piney and passion fruit aspects. Medium-high hop bitterness is present, although the malt backbone will support the strong hop character and provide for good balance. Medium-dry to dry finish.
Mouthfeel: Smooth medium-bodied mouthfeel without hop-derived astringency, although moderate carbonation can combine to render an overall dry sensation in the presence of malt sweetness.
Overall Impression: A decidedly hoppy and bitter, moderately strong American India Pale Ale.
Vital Statistics:
Style: American IPA
OG: 1.057
FG: 1.012
IBUs: 56
ABV: 6%
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Xmas THT. Clear golden with white head. Sweet malts, grassy and doughy. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2018
at 20:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle sampled at THT December. Slight hazy light golden with white head. Dank hops, spruce, bready malts, soft paper, grapefruit, chicory, grassy. Medium sweet and solid bitterness. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2018
at 20:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Brought by Višnja 666 and Pilot Goran from South Africa. Huge thanks for this! Shared with them at a tasting session in June 2017. Clear straw colour, moderate to a large white head. Moderately hoppy, mostly herbal with malts underneath. Not fresh? Balanced flavours, grassy. Light bitterness. Medium body, moderate carbonation, medium finish. Nice one, not spectacular. Might not have been fresh.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2018
at 13:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
340ml bottle from the Beer52 box for June. A straw coloured pour with a billowing cream head; limey citrus aroma; crisp grapefruit citrus taste with some pine resin gives a dry finish that catches the back of the throat. A pleasant light fruity IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2018
at 21:27
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2018
at 23:43
7/10
Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2017
at 16:44
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy amber and copper coloured body with a ridiculously large, six centimetre tall pure white very microfoamed head that leaves a pretty ugly lace, but stays afloat for quite a while. Aroma of soap, grass, light hops, citrus and a bit of alcohol. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive hop pellet flavour with some grass, citrus, pine, earth, yeast, grain and a bit of rice and other funky fake malts. Aftertaste shows much more bitterness from the hops with a strong bit of pine, earth, grass, floral and resinous elements with a little sweetness on the finish. Overall, a lot of carbonation, some decent smells in the nose and a much better flavour with a hoppy finish that shows fairly well for a beer from South Africa and decent IPA for the rest of the world (not from the West or even East coast of the USA). I sampled this 50 cL bottle purchased from TOPS in Cape Quarter (Green Point) in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 14-August-2015 for ZAR31,99 sampled at home in Washington on the other side of the planet on 02-January-2017 on my youngest daugher’s second birthday [which coincided with her first trip to Africa on this purchase], Happy Birthday Paige!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2017
at 01:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 341ml. [ As Devil’s Peak King’s Blockhouse IPA ].Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, citrus, fruity hops, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20161008] 7-3-7-3-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2016
at 15:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Aarhus tasting. Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma of hop, caramel, light fruit. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Finish is bittersweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2016
at 08:48