IPA
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.42
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New England’s Original IPA | As enjoyable today as it was in ‘93, IPA is a regional favorite and a craft beer classic. Styled after an English IPA but brewed with distinctly American hops, it’s citrusy, refreshing, and perfectly balanced– as perfect on a Cape Cod beach as it is in a VT ski lodge or Boston dive bar.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours amber from a bottle with a medium quick-dissipating head, with some lacing. Aroma is not terribly hoppy like some IPAs, almost closer to a pale ale. Flavor the hops come through, again not overpowering, but strong. Maybe this is what IPAs used to be like? Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2015
at 20:40
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draught @ New York Sports Bar, JFK airport
Pours orange with a small foamy head. Aroma of fruits, pine, citrus and grass. Taste is smooth, watery and slightly fruity with hints of hops. Finish is slightly crisp and malty with some citrusy hops. Quite easy going.
Pours orange with a small foamy head. Aroma of fruits, pine, citrus and grass. Taste is smooth, watery and slightly fruity with hints of hops. Finish is slightly crisp and malty with some citrusy hops. Quite easy going.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2014
at 11:50
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Haand 2014. Deep golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, pine, caramel. Flavour is fruit, malt, pine, caramel, peaches, orange. Easy drinkable beer.
Tried
on 21 Oct 2014
at 21:12
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Deep golden with a white head - Malt and some hops in the aroma - Nice malt to support a nice hop profile with some fruity notes and some bitterness - the hops goes into a light bitter finish - This was nice
Tried
on 29 Sep 2014
at 13:46
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
It wasn’t bad, but not particularly memorable, either. Fairly typical IPA. Had with lunch at Fire + Ice restaurant in Cambridge, MA.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2014
at 07:11
6/10
Tried
on 29 Jun 2014
at 11:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 12oz, at Haand Festival -14. It pours an almost clear body, golden in color and with a small, white head. The aroma is piney and citrus peel-ish, with some malts kicking in. Bitter flavor with piney, citrusy hops on a backdrop of pale malts. Full-bodied, soft and nicely carbonated, with bitter, citrusy finish. I prefer the even more hop forward west coast IPA’s, but this is a really fine one anyway. 140523
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2014
at 14:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle 355ml @ Haand Ølfestival 2014
Pours clear golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, peach, apricot and orange. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long malty and peach fruity finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours clear golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, peach, apricot and orange. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long malty and peach fruity finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2014
at 11:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Gylden brun, klar med hvitt skum. Humle og honninglukt. Frisk, bitter humle og søt sitrussmak. Kort, lettdrikkende IPA. Haandfestival 2014
Tried
on 25 May 2014
at 05:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance had a clear, bubbly, and light gold in color, white frothy head with good sticky lacing that doesn’t last.
The smell had some floral, citrus, and some grassy pine. There were subdued malts come out as it warms.
The taste had a mild citrus hop flavor, malts come out as it warms.
The palate sat about a medium, somewhat sticky coating the mouth and tongue, sessionable, sticky finish, no aftertaste.
Overall, this was a pretty good American IPA, maltier than most AIPA’s, but hey I’d come back to it.
The appearance had a clear, bubbly, and light gold in color, white frothy head with good sticky lacing that doesn’t last.
The smell had some floral, citrus, and some grassy pine. There were subdued malts come out as it warms.
The taste had a mild citrus hop flavor, malts come out as it warms.
The palate sat about a medium, somewhat sticky coating the mouth and tongue, sessionable, sticky finish, no aftertaste.
Overall, this was a pretty good American IPA, maltier than most AIPA’s, but hey I’d come back to it.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Mar 2014
at 17:30