VIPA
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
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6.81
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Virginia India Pale Ale otherwise known as Virgindia Pale Ale
The embodiment of true Virginia hospitality, Hardywood VIPA offers alluring tropical aromatics, a refreshingly delicate body and a bright, juicy finish. Heirloom Virginia barley rounds out the malt bill and creates a perfect sense of balance with a dose of citrusy Virginia hops. VIPA is our take on a Virginia India Pale Ale, or as we like to call it, Virgindia Pale Ale. Our interpretation of a Virginia IPA is crafted with locally sourced ingredients, from golden barley grown in the coastal plains to hops cultivated in the Appalachian piedmont. Pleasantly refreshing on the humid days of summer, but flavorful enough to satisfy on a cool winter evening, VIPA is just one more reason Virginia is for lovers.
Hardywood VIPA is the culmination of an extensive development process that included a search for the finest Virginia-sourced ingredients we could find. VIPA proudly features Virginia-grown hops from Piedmont Hops, LLC, Huguenot Hops and Misty Mill Hops at Rockmill Farm, as well as two-row barley grown by Bay's Best Feed in Heathsville, VA and malted at Copper Fox Distillery in Sperryville, VA.
The embodiment of true Virginia hospitality, Hardywood VIPA offers alluring tropical aromatics, a refreshingly delicate body and a bright, juicy finish. Heirloom Virginia barley rounds out the malt bill and creates a perfect sense of balance with a dose of citrusy Virginia hops. VIPA is our take on a Virginia India Pale Ale, or as we like to call it, Virgindia Pale Ale. Our interpretation of a Virginia IPA is crafted with locally sourced ingredients, from golden barley grown in the coastal plains to hops cultivated in the Appalachian piedmont. Pleasantly refreshing on the humid days of summer, but flavorful enough to satisfy on a cool winter evening, VIPA is just one more reason Virginia is for lovers.
Hardywood VIPA is the culmination of an extensive development process that included a search for the finest Virginia-sourced ingredients we could find. VIPA proudly features Virginia-grown hops from Piedmont Hops, LLC, Huguenot Hops and Misty Mill Hops at Rockmill Farm, as well as two-row barley grown by Bay's Best Feed in Heathsville, VA and malted at Copper Fox Distillery in Sperryville, VA.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ BrewDog Bristol, 58 Baldwin Street, Gloucestershire, BS1 1QW Bristol, England.[ As Hardywood VIPA [Virgindia Pale Ale] ].Clear medium orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, tropical fruit, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, tropical fruit, fruity hops, mango. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170807] 7-3-8-3-15
Tried
on 25 Mar 2019
at 21:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up at M&S Canary Wharf. Pours totally clear gold with a foamy, white head. Pretty basic stuff, a bit 2009, some piney hops, orange peel, mellow grassy bitterness, dry pale bread. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Very mellow resin in the finish, more piney-grassy bitterness. Simple but drinkable enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2019
at 23:04
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Marks and Spencer, drunk at home. Mid-gold and clear with a foamy white head. Light aroma of pear, pine, honey and orange peel with some astringent notes. Bittersweet taste, fairly resinous on the tongue. Finish is extremely bitter with medicinal hops in the aftertaste. Medium carbonation. A good if vwry basic IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2019
at 00:01
7/10
Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2018
at 16:24
5.5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Nov 2018
at 12:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Draught in DC. Lemon gold with a solid head. Aroma of citrus hop. Flavour is honey citrus, grain malt, a little pepper on the lips. Fruity citrus finish.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2018
at 22:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from M&S Rickmansworth, Herts. A slightly hazy golden coloured pour with a thin white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, orange aroma, Tastes hoppy, citrus, some orange, slightly bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2018
at 09:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. M&S. Hazy, mucky gold. Messy, super sticky, bright white head. Nose has cereal. Old citrus. A little mineraly. Has a pilsner type of thing going on. Taste is dry, and light, mineraly bitter. Light to medium body. Fine, crisp carbonation. Light bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2018
at 17:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Hoppy Corner, Paris. Pours golden with an offwhite head, lacings. Aroma of malt, light grainy, grass, fruit, light citrus. Flavor is light sweet, malt, light bread, grass, little old hops, light citrus. Medium body, average carbonation, light sweet finish. 151018
Tried
on 16 Oct 2018
at 08:31
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Hardywood, pours a cloudy golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out somewhat harsh, floral and citrus hops, with an earth, biscuity malt base. Flavour is along the same lines, with bitter, earthy, citrus and floral hops, and a toasted biscuity malt base. Pretty standard and lacking much depth. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Aug 2018
at 05:30