The Big DIPL
Sudwerk Brewing Company in Davis, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Regular|
Score
7.15
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Uncap and unleash the intergalatic liquid greatness that awaits you. Strong citrus aromas and passionfruit flavors collide thanks to the copious use of Galaxy hops. Prepare yourself for the hoppiest beer ever bottled by Sudwerk. This is one small step for mankind, and one giant leap for redefining lagers.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle pour from Total Wine & More, Brentwood. It's a clear, golden yellow with decent sparkle, finger-width off-white head with fair retention and trace lacing. Aroma is dank, funky resin, citrus with malt backbone. Taste is mix of citrus, danky pine resin, later pineapple and bread. Mouthfeel is light bodied with thin mouthfeel, significant alcohol warmth, soft carbonation and mostly sweet finish as taste. Overall, reminiscent of West Coast DIPA of old. More flavor than bitterness but not getting passion fruit. No born on date so don't know if this sat a while and hops deteriorated or this is what was intended. Maybe interesting in that this is a lager, but feel like I've been here before. Many times.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2021
at 03:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Buzz LA 5-21-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2020
at 05:48
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Some citrus and mash malt here. Decent balance but not a huge amount of character. Some booze. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2016
at 01:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
This beer is a hazy orange-gold color with a medium foamy white head that recedes steadily to a film. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of tropical fruit, hops, yeast and malt. Medium to full body with flavors of grapefruit, dank hops, earthy yeast and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a citrusy hops aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2016
at 14:56
7/10
Tried
on 23 Apr 2016
at 14:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Spice and mineral aroma with grapefruit and summer fruit. Grapefruit and summer fruit flavor with light mineral notes. Medium bodied. Grapefruit and spice lingers with summer fruit and light mineral notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2015
at 18:20
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours clear orange, medium white head, creamy and slow to dissipate with nice lacing. Aroma is dank, potty, passionfruit. Flavor is light plus sweet, medium bitter, dank and resinous. Medium body, oily mouthfeel. Lingering bitterness into the far finish. Some ABV heat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2015
at 00:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours clear orange gold with white head. Nose/taste of pineapple, tropical fruit, peppercorn, toasted caramel, toasted garlic and grass and dank orange peel. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2014
at 13:56
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours bright orange gold with a transient off-white head. Understand the garlic reference two reviews down. There’s a lot of hop. Tropical fruit and citrus work together in strange ways. Med body. Flavor is burning citrus rind with lots of South Pacific fruit suggestions. And I can still think garlic. Not likely true, but ... Malt is rather back of the hop, but it’s malty enough to support this monster. My, but lagers have come a long way.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2014
at 16:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at The Davis Graduate
Clear golden with a medium sized white head and some lacing. Aroma of citrus, tropical fruit and grapefruit. Flavors of grapefruit, toffee, grassy, honey with a nice mild citrus bitterness
A nice Imperial Lager (DIPL)
Clear golden with a medium sized white head and some lacing. Aroma of citrus, tropical fruit and grapefruit. Flavors of grapefruit, toffee, grassy, honey with a nice mild citrus bitterness
A nice Imperial Lager (DIPL)
Tried
from Draft
on 28 May 2014
at 17:40