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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8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Pours golden with nice lace. Smell of wheat and citrus. Tastes of grapefruit
Tried
on 28 Jun 2019
at 00:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours reddish amber with a thick white head. Aroma of centennial hops, earthy notes. Taste has woody notes, oak. Palate continues this, layers them with the aforementioned hops and delicate stone fruit notes. Good beer.
Tried
on 06 May 2019
at 02:47
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Draft at Brass Tap, National Harbour, MD. April 2019.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Apr 2019
at 17:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Total Wine & More, Danvers. Appearance is lightly hazy, light brown-orange with light sparkle, finger-width, off-white foamy head with poor retention and mild, leggy lacing. Aroma is citrus, dank, caramel malt backbone, floral/muted candied sugar. Taste is as aroma. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thick, smooth texture, average-to-lively carbonation and fairly dry finish as taste. Overall, this was a bit old (best by 11/6/18) so hop contribution likely muted a bit as this leans more to the malt side than a fresh batch likely would. Will have to re-rate at some point. Still, can tell there's quality construction here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2018
at 04:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On draught in Washington D.C. pours copper and clear. Nothing off but nothing outstanding.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2018
at 00:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Orange pour. Aroma of orange, grapefruit, bready malt and citrus. Taste has soft piney garlic hop, citrus, bready malt, grapefruit and bitter herbs. Nice classic is IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2018
at 20:54
6.5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Apr 2018
at 21:51
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Canned from Wegmans. Clear golden coloured. Citric, juicy, caramel malts, fairly bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jan 2018
at 14:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Aroma a lúpulo, herbal, pino. Anaranjada, consistentemente turbia. Espuma duradera. En boca delicadamente lupulada, de amargor contenido. Frutal, maracuyá, piña. Bastante seca, algo picante. Amargor creciente hasta el final para una IPA sabrosa.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2017
at 02:15
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled @ GBBF 2017, Day 2. A slightly hazy orange golden beer with a small white head. Aroma citrus, zest, tangerine. Taste of fruity bitter hops, Citrus, zest, medium bitterness, nice.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2017
at 16:39