21st Birthday IPA
Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.85
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We were so impressed with this year’s harvest in Yakima we decided to brew 2017’s anniversary brew with our favorite hops from the trip: Roy Farms Chinook, Roy Farms Centennial, and Black Star Ranch Mosaic. Aggressive kettle and dry-hopping will showcase notes of pine, resinous hop character, and tropical fruit. Slight haze.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours cloudy pale yellow with largish foamy white head, sweet lemon aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter lemon peel taste, thin body, longish medium bitter citrusy finish. Decent citrusy IPA, congrats for the anniversary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2017
at 18:29
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Milk and Hops, Chelsea. 1st overtime in Super Bowl history calls for an extra rate. Might as well be a beer celebrating the first drinking birthday (at least here in the US). Pours a lightly hazed golden color with a half inch fizz of white head. Nice lacing. Resin hop aroma, pine, pineapple, and grapefruit. Spice and floral notes. Grassy finish. Clean, classically bitter IPA flavor. Nice resiny hop profile. Lively feel, dry close. Nice beer to close out a crazy game ending. Mediocre commercials. Too bad the already spoiled Pats fans get another thing to celebrate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2017
at 21:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz. bottle, pours a clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma brings out wonderful piney hops upfront, lovely dry hoppiness, and a crisp biscuity malt base. Flavour is a dry piney hop bomb in every good sense, with a touch of a hint of tropical fruits underneath, and a dry biscuity malt backbone providing good structure. Dry piney hops with little astringency on the finish. An excellent by-the-books IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2017
at 00:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours hazy golden, large creamy white head, dissipates slowly, nice lacing. Aroma is dank, grassy, passionfruit, some garlic. Flavor is light sweet, medium bitter. Medium body. This is a beer that would have rocked three years ago. Still good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2017
at 20:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz. bottle. Crystal clear golden color, thin lasting white head, mild lace. Aroma is weak tropical fruit, pine, light floral.
The hop profile is nice but pretty tame. Mild floral and grass upfront turning into a pine resin finish. Bready malt backbone. The pine almost over powers the other hop varieties. Body is medium with a dry texture. It drinks pretty well but overall, it is just a standard shelf IPA. Nothing major to report.
The hop profile is nice but pretty tame. Mild floral and grass upfront turning into a pine resin finish. Bready malt backbone. The pine almost over powers the other hop varieties. Body is medium with a dry texture. It drinks pretty well but overall, it is just a standard shelf IPA. Nothing major to report.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2017
at 19:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
$1.95 bottle from Wine Warehouse. Pours clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma of pot, cat piss, BO, straw, and rubber. Flavor is lightly herbal, cracker, green pine, some citrus peel. As a celebratory ale I expected more than this. Not memorable, but not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2017
at 15:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a transparent yellow color with a fair carbonation seen rising at a nice pace. Finger’s worth of white foamy head quickly dissipates and leaves sporadic clingy lacing.
The aroma arranges bitter to sweet floral to bitter grassy with a nice balancing danky sweet onion tones.
The flavor blends the floral sweetness to the danky sweet onion but good danky tones blend to the bitter side. Dry floral to onion sweet aftertaste with a sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body arranging a nice sessionability about it. Mild carbonation. Bitterness is really controlled in the feel. Dankiness really hits smoothly to push subtle sticky to crisp details on my tongue.
Overall, a very nicely done AIPA that I would love to have again. Would be a fabulous beer with some grilled shrimp over a Caesar salad.
The aroma arranges bitter to sweet floral to bitter grassy with a nice balancing danky sweet onion tones.
The flavor blends the floral sweetness to the danky sweet onion but good danky tones blend to the bitter side. Dry floral to onion sweet aftertaste with a sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body arranging a nice sessionability about it. Mild carbonation. Bitterness is really controlled in the feel. Dankiness really hits smoothly to push subtle sticky to crisp details on my tongue.
Overall, a very nicely done AIPA that I would love to have again. Would be a fabulous beer with some grilled shrimp over a Caesar salad.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2017
at 14:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pour is a very light and transparent for the style... looks like a straw-colored pilsner. Lively streams of carbonation and a fizzy finger of white foam make this look like it is a Bud Lite or something. Aromas are pretty decent at first, but seem to weaken quickly... the first blast was a nice bit of resin and herbal hops with a touch of honey or biscuit. Given a couple of minutes it dies down to a bit of herbal and skunky smell and that’s about it. Flavor is decent, but slightly underwhelming. Kind of a clean and simple IPA that has a little more of the herb and peaches/pear edge than many of the resin bombs. It’s clean, crisp and very enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2017
at 13:18