California Sun
Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.39
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West coast session IPA.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Colmore, Birmingham. Clear gold with well formed head. Has a tutti frutti quality with some biscuit and pine but a little dulled by Thornbridge standards. Nice enough though.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the Colmore, Brummy vice Cotts Bimble, 03/08/24. Golden to light amber topped with a lasting white head. Nose is mellow citric flesh, soft malts, light breads, melon. Taste comprises tangerine, citric tinged straw, melon, papaya. Medium bodied, light spritzy carbonation, semi drying close spiked with mellow juicy hop bitterness. Okay sessioner.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2024
at 11:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at the colemore mini cotts day out. A clear bright golden yellow coloured pour with a fluffy white head. Aroma is spicy citrus grass, bark, woody hop. Flavour is composed of light grains, earthy hop, pine,, bark. Flint chalky finish. Palate us crisp, light grains, chalky, highish carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Aug 2024
at 12:16
5.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Salt, Sheffield. Hazy golden-amber with a creamy head. Dense textured, hoppy, towards tasteless. Hints of exotic fruit can be found.
Tried
from Cask
at
Salt Sheffield
on 04 Apr 2024
at 04:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Ryrie's. Pours hazy golden amber with a thick white head. Aromas of citrus and biscuit. Taste is more of the same. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Sep 2023
at 16:04
6/10
Tried
on 27 Aug 2023
at 17:56
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Hops, Crewe. Pours a hazy golden amber, with minimal off-white head. The aroma is quite perfumed with floral hops and fudge. In the mouth it is sweet and juicy with consistency of barley sugar sweets. There’s a little underlying bitterness too and flavours of floral hops and tangerine plus some hints of pine. Finish is quite dry. Reasonable enough but a bit bland to say the least. An IPA should have more hops than this !
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2023
at 22:41
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Rake, Borough Market. Golden orange pour with a white head. Nose is tangerine, banana toffee, apricot jam. Taste is zesty orange, apricot, salt, spot of grapefruit. Easy drinking malarkey.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Aug 2023
at 07:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught@Littlepub, Vaasa. Orangeish amber colour with a small foamy white head. Aroma is floral, fruity, some mild bready and toffeeish notes. Flavour is floral, fruity, some biscuity and mild crisp maltiness to it. Not that much bitterness to it.
Tried
on 30 May 2023
at 06:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear and golden with a bubbly white head and a mellow citrus and light malt aroma. Smooth and citrusy bitter, with sweet caramel malt and a pinch of pine going on
Tried
on 31 Dec 2021
at 22:21