Rebel IPA
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.61
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For the first time, the brewers at Sam Adams have completely reformulated a popular flagship beer: Rebel IPA. After more than four years, the brewers undertook what they called “Project Lupulus,” an experiment that takes advantage of hops that were not readily available or have been newly cultivated since Rebel IPA first launched in 2014. As part of this project, the brewers collaborated, starting in 2013, with a hop breeder in Yakima Valley, WA to create a new hop variety proprietary and exclusive to Sam Adams called HBC 566. After months of experimenting with dozens of trial batches at the Boston Brewery, the brewers are now ready to release the new Rebel IPA recipe which is brewed with HBC 566 and another new experimental hop variety for bittering, HBC 682. Rebel IPA now has a more intense juicy, tropical and citrus flavor supported by a leaner body and a crisp, clean finish to optimize the hop character. So what changes? Paying homage to the original recipe, Rebel IPA is brewed with a few of the original hop varieties including Cascade, Centennial, Simcoe® and Chinook. For the 2017 release, the brewers added Mosaic hops, alongside HBC 566, a new hop proprietary to Sam Adams, and HBC 682, a new, experimental bittering hop.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle (from superalko). Pours dark golden with whiteish head. Aroma is sweet, caramel, citrus, malt. Flavor is sweet and bitter, caramel, citrus, malt, sugar. Finish is sweet and malty with some bitterness. Overall: good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2018
at 21:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(bottle, 35.5cl) Almost clear, deep golden colour with a mid-sized and slightly off-white foamy head. Slightly bready malty and mildly fruity hoppy aroma, including hints of citrus, pineapple and grapefruit. Slightly bitter flavour, medium bodied with a crisp carbonation. Slightly bready malty base with shades of caramel from far behind, accompanied by moderately fruity and restrained piney hops; mildly bitter finish with a moderately fruity tail. Okay. 30.I.18
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2018
at 20:57
6/10
Tried
on 15 Jan 2018
at 15:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle from Wegmans, West Seneca. A slightly hazy amber pour with a thin white head; pleasantly floral and citrus aroma; lively malty body with some tropical and orchard fruit and a herbal bitterness; before an fruity malt finish. A nicely balanced, fruity IPA, this went really well with my steak dinner.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2018
at 18:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce can. Clear amber, large creamy white head, good retention. Aroma of tropical fruit, citrus, pale malt. The taste is tropical fruit, lime, lemon, pale malt. Medium bodied, juicy, crisp.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2018
at 17:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from a discount supermarket in Copenhagen. Clear golden with small white head. Sweet pils malts, grapefruit candy, light peach, lychee, a touch of marijuana, grassy, orange peel. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with crisp feel. Like a hopped up lager. Quite drinkeable, would be a nice beer to have at a concert venue or something.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2018
at 15:23
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home trying to help Pats pull out victory. Lighter amber yellow pour. Nose is light florals, pine and citrus. Tastes of lemon, pine, earth, and florals. Light bodied and easy drinking ipa I’m sure that’s what their going for but could do for more Depth of flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2017
at 21:06
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle - Amber pour, aroma of caramel malt and lightly fruity hops. Flavor is moderately bitter with caramel malt and light citrus. It's medium bodied, clean, and well balanced, finishing with some nice lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2017
at 21:12
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
So almost every sammy you see around today has the name rebel in it. I already did this and now its a new beer? Whatever. If its the new rebel, then label it, new rebel. But I see since coke tried the new thing it didn't work either. So, just change the formula and hope you don't insult any of the other likers of the old brew? Well, so much for the BS, this is a bottle that pours thickly and foamy pale. Nice big giant head continues to form, almost over top the glass. Forms a plateau. It looks beautiful and then you taste it with nose punching thru the head. Taste is big mouthcoating fresh ass bitter biting sticky viscous hop resin. Knows how to plow across the tongue and sides of yer mouth. SO strong, so bitter, so relentless. Whew, terribly on double IPA style. Nasty nellie.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2017
at 15:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Superbrugsen. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, light fruity and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 211117
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2017
at 12:42