Broken Halo IPA
Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.67
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Broken Halo IPA is a beer produced in the spirit of traditional IPA products shipped from the UK to India in the late 1800s. The almost excessive amounts of Cascade and Columbus hops used in Broken Halo give it notable citrus and grapefruit aromas and flavors. The beer bitterness measures high but tastes smooth due to the full-bodied, Caramel malt sweetness. The finish is juicy, clean, and short lived. A devilishly bold, heavenly smooth India Pale Ale.
malts: PALE, CARAMEL 10L & 20L,carapils
hops: ALCHEMY, CASCADE, zeus
malts: PALE, CARAMEL 10L & 20L,carapils
hops: ALCHEMY, CASCADE, zeus
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours slightly hazy copper to gold with thin white head. The aroma offers up floral hops, a bit of soapy notes, a touch of grapefruit and faint stale earthiness in the background. It tastes a bit beyond fresh so I’ll try to capture less or score what this likely is like fresh. I get nice near chewy grapefruit, spicy and floral hops all sort of mixing together and seemingly leaning much more toward bitter hoppiness rather than flavor hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2012
at 19:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy golden pour with large floating particles that almost look like citrus pulp - I am fairly surprised by this one - very earthy, dank hop aroma with a semi-sweet malt base that compliments the citrus notes of the hops - a bit sweeter than I typically like my ipas, but the hop presence is strong enough to offset this - bitterness is assertive without being astringent - a touch of white grape quality on the back end - sweetness lingers a bit too much in the finish, but otherwise fairly nice.
Tried
on 12 Nov 2010
at 19:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours clear golden amber. Nose and taste of caramel malts, hops, citrus and dry pine finish.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2010
at 22:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Orange-tan, slight haze. Big, soapy, steady off-white head. Fresh cool minty seawater fresh hop aroma. A pretty solid IPA, well balanced with some serious hoppitude. Doughy malt backbone. Clean and easy drinking, on the lighter side of full-bodied. Some alcohol laced orange-citrus bitterness in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2010
at 20:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild wooden and orange to tangerine hops fruity. Fruity and sweet hops impression. Ends dry and bitter into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2010
at 00:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cloudy blond color. Mild but nice hoppy aromas, creamy. Average body strength, toffee flavor; good bitterness, a bit of citrusy touch. Clearly not fresh anymore.
Tried
on 14 Aug 2010
at 15:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled Jul 01 09
Hazy orange color, small mostly vanishing white head. Nice strong, a bit yeasty aroma: pineapple, honey, elderflower. Pale malty, citrusy hoppy, some sweet fruity notes. Quite basic, but wellbrewed and balanced IPA. For sessions.
Hazy orange color, small mostly vanishing white head. Nice strong, a bit yeasty aroma: pineapple, honey, elderflower. Pale malty, citrusy hoppy, some sweet fruity notes. Quite basic, but wellbrewed and balanced IPA. For sessions.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2010
at 03:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled (thanks Kalevi Kurronen!). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity and floral hops with some slight honey and mild spices. Rather pleasant. Flavour is fruits, some honey and mild herbal and wooden notes. Quite sweet fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2010
at 03:29
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample at The Stube at Skibowl Mt. Hood. Pours clear gold with a medium frothy white head that burns away steadily. Spotty lacing on the glass. Fruity hops aroma. Light crisp body with flavors of fruit, floral hops and malt. The finish is clean and hoppy with a short lightly bitter aftertaste. Pretty one-dimensional slightly above average beer overall.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2010
at 10:46
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle. Re-rank. Last time I reviewed this, I had a nasty cold and didn’t feel I was doing the beer justice. I can actually smell now, by golly! Aroma of grain, grapefruit--still a little faint for this beer. Pours golden with little head, subpar lacing. Taste is peppery, just slightly bitter. Kind of watery; medium carbonation. Overall, a pretty average IPA. This brewery is funny. I’m more into IPAs than ambers, yet I think their amber is better than their IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2009
at 20:52