IPA
Drake’s Brewing Company in San Leandro, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.33
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Brewed with extra hops and malt in the English tradition, but with West Coast style. This deep golden India Pale Ale is artfully balanced with a fresh, powerful aroma and a luscious finish.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught @ Tapas & Taps, SFO Airport. Faintly cloudy golden with very small frothy off-white head, citrus peel aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter citrus peel taste, thin body long finish. Decent IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2019
at 21:00
5/10
Tried
on 01 Oct 2018
at 12:00
7/10
Backlog
Tried
on 10 Sep 2018
at 09:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Firewood Grill, International Terminal, SFO. Pours golden with an offwhite head, light lacings. Aroma of malt, little caramel, grass, citrus, piney hops. Flavor is sweet, light bitter, malt, caramel, grassy, light fruit, citrus, piney. Medium body, average carbonation, sweet and light bitter finish. 020818
Tried
on 02 Aug 2018
at 20:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Amber with a white head. A: grapefruit, kumquat, pine, light bread. Some blackcurrant. Quite thin for its strength and the plainish sweet malt - whilst pleasant and clean - doesn't really provide enough of a platform for the strong citrus and pine, or for the strong bitterness at the end. Pretty good but the world has moved on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2018
at 12:43
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at the Alehouse Project, Melbourne. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin white head and some broken lace. The aroma is malt, tropical fruit citrus hop. The flavour is moderate bitter light sweet with a crisp, fresh malt, fruity, light dry pepper spice, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jan 2018
at 08:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
250ml on tap at Parallel universe. Thin white head. Lovely hoppy aroma. Thin white head. Lovely bitterness. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jan 2018
at 04:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Whole Foods. Medium to dark golden with huge fluffy head. Aroma leads with the hops, some of the grains, light citrus. Taste as well is hop forward, lemon zest, orange peel. Citrus oil, mild bitterness. A hark back to the day when IPA ruled the beer scene.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2018
at 22:14
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From Jan 2008
I got this bottle from South Bay Drugs & Liquors.
It pours from 12oz bottle a hazy gold with a good 1 finger head of foam and it has a lot of lacing.
The smell is very nice. Lots of hops there but equally strong in the malt and together, it makes for a very bitter-seet nose. I like.
The taste is as if not more impressive than the smell. Grapefruit and floral hop flavours in abundance but the malt sweetness somewhat takes the edge off the bitterness and it's *almost* a complete balance for this IPA....nah, there'd have to be a bigger malt profile here to do that. Hops win flavour domination....by more than a nose. It has a good medium mouthfeel to it and the carbonation is fairly high. It finishes on the bitter side. I'd say this is more of an American IPA but it's reasonably near the ballpark. That said, this is quite a good IPA regardless and one I'd drink again without hesitation.
I got this bottle from South Bay Drugs & Liquors.
It pours from 12oz bottle a hazy gold with a good 1 finger head of foam and it has a lot of lacing.
The smell is very nice. Lots of hops there but equally strong in the malt and together, it makes for a very bitter-seet nose. I like.
The taste is as if not more impressive than the smell. Grapefruit and floral hop flavours in abundance but the malt sweetness somewhat takes the edge off the bitterness and it's *almost* a complete balance for this IPA....nah, there'd have to be a bigger malt profile here to do that. Hops win flavour domination....by more than a nose. It has a good medium mouthfeel to it and the carbonation is fairly high. It finishes on the bitter side. I'd say this is more of an American IPA but it's reasonably near the ballpark. That said, this is quite a good IPA regardless and one I'd drink again without hesitation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2017
at 09:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and light pine flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light pine lingers with light caramel.
Earlier Rating: 6/23/2004 Total Score: 4.1
Bottle. Dark orange amber with a big white head. Nice tar and grapefruit aroma. Sweet caramel malt flavor that’s almost creamy with a big pine/grapefruit ending. Nicely put together beer. Not a big bitter ending and not overly heavy - great mouthfeel. Good beer.
Earlier Rating: 6/23/2004 Total Score: 4.1
Bottle. Dark orange amber with a big white head. Nice tar and grapefruit aroma. Sweet caramel malt flavor that’s almost creamy with a big pine/grapefruit ending. Nicely put together beer. Not a big bitter ending and not overly heavy - great mouthfeel. Good beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Sep 2017
at 17:58