Loose Cannon
Heavy Seas Brewing Company in Halethorpe, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.16
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Our flagship beer, Loose Cannon wins people over at first smell. The carefully cultivated interplay of Simcoe, Palisade, and Centennial creates a most fragrant IPA - its nose bursts with notes of grapefruit, herbs, and pine. Bitterness is somewhat subdued by the floral quality that pervades the taste. The color is burnished gold, and the mouthfeel is creamy. A strong malt backbone balances out the triple-hopped beer. Its nickname, Hop3, comes from the brewing process: our brewers hop Loose Cannon in the boil, the hopback, and the fermenter. It won a second place CAMRA award at the 2010 Great British Beer Festival.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
(Bottle) Amber colour, sligtly hazy, with frothy off-white head. Hoppy nose with orange marmalade, resin, mango, dried pineapple and spices. Malty, hoppy taste with notes of orange marmalade, resin, mango, dried pineapple and a generous resiny/spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and well made IPA. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 19:07
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
. Poured amber, nice hops flavor. Maybe too nice, it was pretty overpowering. Nice aroma though.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle 0,355ltr: Slightly unclear amber colored brew with an dry bitter taste with an little bit of sweetness, hints of citrus, caramel and some fruitiness. Courtesy from mine brother-in-law who takes this from the USA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:21
8/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:48
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap. Pours gold orange. Pine, grapefruit, biscuit, little tropical, little chalk. Medium body. Fine.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2024
at 05:09
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Opalescent orange colour, moderate sized creamy ecru head; aroma of pine resiny, marmalade, grapefruity and biscuity notes; taste is hop-dominant with the same notes as can be felt in the aroma; great IPA; my first pint of beer in the US ever :)
Tried
from Can
on 09 Nov 2023
at 21:02
6/10
Tried
on 14 Jun 2023
at 20:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at Tap99. Pours clear gold with a white head. Citrus, candied sugar, sweet finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Feb 2023
at 04:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Amber with a frothy, white head. Aroma full of caramel, pine and mango, a combination that somehow works. Taste is bitter with a mild hoppy spicyness at the finish. Medium-bodied, moderate carbonation with a firm malty backbone. Good.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2022
at 16:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
355ml can. Opalescent, orange golden colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Intense, piney, citrusy, fruity and slightly floral, hoppy aroma, notes of lemon, grapefruit, some pineapple, melon, a touch of viola or the like, pale malty background. Taste is crisp, bitter, citrusy fruity and piney hoppy, pale and slightly caramel malty backbone with little residual sweetness, notes of lemon, lemon peel, grapefruit, some pineapple, melon, floral overtones of viola or the like; lingering, bitter, floral finish. Slightly oily, watery texture, dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation. Intense, crisp, quite floral - good!
Tried
from Can
on 04 Dec 2021
at 15:39