Superconductor
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.48
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Bone dry and ultra hoppy Double IPA. Brewed with 80% more hops than our already extremely hoppy HopWired IPA. Will be launched at the Annual Westcoast IPA Challenge at the Malthose in Wellington on Thursday July 14th 2011.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Poured red amber with white head. Overpowered astringency cause of the hops. Needs more balance
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught keg at the Queens Road Tap, Leicester. Golden, hazy with a smattering of white head. The aroma is bedecked with hops: grassy, piney and floral notes with tropical fruits and melon. Sweet taste with tongue-coating hop oils leading to an intense bitter finish. Oily body, medium carbonation. There's an unfortunate vegetal note in the aftertaste, otherwise a masterful beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 May 2021
at 19:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500 ml bottle, as 8 Wired Super Conductor Double IPA, from the Norwegian importer. ABV is 8.8%. Crystal clear golden colour, apparently filtered. Moderate white head. Intense aroma of fruity NZ and US hops, a remarkable blend of lychee and other tropical fruits, citrus and white grapes. Also hints of spruce and caramel. The flavour is very hoppy, fruity, resinous and bitter, but also quite sweet. Far from "perfectly balanced", but still damned good and tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2021
at 15:08
8/10
Aroma sitrus, malt, krydder. Utseende tåkete gylden med offwhite skum som henger. Smak humle, sitrus, malt, Feb -18
Tried
on 09 Nov 2020
at 21:42
7/10
Tap @ Sori Taproom, Helsinki. Poured clear golden color with a thick white head. Resiny hops, kiwi notes, citrus and sweetness. Good bitterness, more dry than sweet finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Feb 2020
at 15:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap@Bootleggers, Copenhagen (02/01/2020) - hazed golden orange with a white head. Sweet fruity and malty with some notes of grapefruit and orange, big sweet caramel malty backbone, melding body, resinous drying bitter hoppy finish. Good old school DIPA action.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jan 2020
at 12:29
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at Craft Clerkenwell. Amber colour with small off-white head. Aroma is classic double ipa, caramel, strong hops, touch of citrus and grapefruit but full on malt. Some tropical fruit. Taste is good. Initial booziness, then fruit. Tropical fruit, pineapple, peachy. Pretty nice. Some lemon too. Nice spicy maltiness. Pretty good. Rerate, Nov. 16. Nice aroma, tropical fruit, bit of stickiness, slight resin. Taste is good. Feels light for the strength. Sticky again, mango, light bitterness, light skunk, papaya and some nice bitterness. Good stuff.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Hazy orange with a frothy off-white head. Aroma of orange, grapefruit, pine, caramel. Taste of marmalade, grapefruit, pine, caramel, biscuit, bitter finish. Medium body, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2019
at 19:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at What's Brewing Beer Festival 2018, Stavanger. Pours hazy golden with off-white head. Aroma of pine needles, resin, tropical fruits, some malty notes. Tastes slightly sweet with balancing bitterness. Medium bodied, warm mouthfeel, bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Oct 2018
at 13:54
7/10
Tried
on 09 Oct 2018
at 14:05