Skull Wrapper IPA
Coronado Brewing Company in Coronado, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
7.23
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22oz bomber pours with a clear pure gold body that supports an off white head. The aroma offers up malts, a touch of biscuit and then herbal to resiny grassy hops flowing into mild citrus and tropical fruit. The taste delivers various citrus fruit, tropical fruit and cantaloupe like hops that are both gummy bear sweet hop flavor and modestly bitter resiny hops. Behind the fruity hops lurk a pleasing degree of spicy onion dankness and a slender sweet malt backbone. Solid balanced IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2015
at 18:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bomber. Pours a golden/straw color. Nice two finger head with some good retention. Aroma is tropical fruit and hops; grapefruit, pine, melons, citrus, and pineapple. Taste is similar, with pine resin and citrus rounding out the bitter punch. Medium/light body with a dry bitter finish. Well balanced and easy drinking West Coast IPA.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2015
at 17:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 2/19/2015. Pours fairly crystal clear deep golden yellow color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, pineapple, pine, herbal, grass, light toasted bread, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of bright citrus/piney hops and light pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, pineapple, pine, herbal, grass, light toasted bread, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Good amount of pine/citrus rind bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon/orange zest, pineapple, citrus rind, pine, light toast, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bright citrus/piney hops and light pale malt flavors; with a nice bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, and moderately sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice IPA. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of bright citrus/piney hops and light pale malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2015
at 22:36
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Thanks Stefan "StefanSD") Bottle. A- Dank, grassy, pine, citrus, floral. A- Amber gold color, hazy liquid, white head. T- Grassy, bitter, pine, subtle citrus. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bitter finish. O- This was definitely a piney, grassy, lingering on your tongue IPA. Just really not my style of IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2015
at 09:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours gold into a Sam glass. White head with medium retention recedes to nothing. Roasted nuts and sourdough aromas. Medium bodied with rotting vegetables and resin front to back and into the lasting earthy resin finish.. the vegetal flavors are not pleasant
Tried
on 16 Mar 2015
at 18:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Nugget in Woodland, CA. Pours gold with a creamy/foamy white head. Citrus/pine aroma - tho not harsh. Gets a bit of floral/spice or similar. Caramel is present in the aroma. Med + body. It is bitter, citrus/pine, mild caramel as the hop melts away, leaving bitter all over the mouth. It is refreshing, hoppy, bitter, delicious.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2015
at 19:56
9/10
Wonderful. Citrus wonder.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2015
at 21:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Dank grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit pith and light pine flavor. Medium bodied. Very good bitterness. Grapefruit rind and light pine linger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2015
at 14:02