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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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
0.355l bottle @ CASK Pub & Kitchen, London. Finally! A long wanted whale for me this! When pouring it produces a massive and near everlasting light fluffy off-white head on top of a cloudy orange body packed with tons and tons of small grey particles. The aroma is as fruity as they come. Lot's of fruity hops with citrus and clear tones of pine. It smells really nice, and it just get's better and berry as it get's some temperature. Yeah, this is in a other league when it comes of flavor. Fantastic hoppy and bitter - almost in the dipa-land at times. Lot's of pine and citrus, strawberries and ripe peaches mixed with lemon, clementine zest, thin caramel and sweet apricots. My oh my this has lot's of flavor! A really great IPA, probably the best I've had in i don't know how long. 22.07.2012
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2012
at 01:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap. Pours clear amber with a small off-white creamy head that dissipates slowly with nice lacing. Aroma is of grapefruit and flowers, with a bit of malt and cat urine. Taste is grapefruit, floral, pine with a bitter finish. No sign of the ABV in the taste. Very creamy and full bodied in the mouth. [tap at the Barrel House 09212012; inadvertantly rated again and gave it the same scores]
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jun 2012
at 14:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
14th August 2010
Hazy amber beer. Good persistent creamy white head. Smooth palate, semi soft and semi dry. Lovely rich hops nose - marmalade grapefruit and orange. A little aniseed. Caramel creamy malt base. Finishes dry with a lingering hop bitter aftertaste. Very drinkable.
Hazy amber beer. Good persistent creamy white head. Smooth palate, semi soft and semi dry. Lovely rich hops nose - marmalade grapefruit and orange. A little aniseed. Caramel creamy malt base. Finishes dry with a lingering hop bitter aftertaste. Very drinkable.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2012
at 10:04
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Drakes IPA (by Drakes Brewing Company):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
12/VI/2012 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from from The Bottle Shop (Canterbury) @ Klaas' place - BB: n/a (2012-617)
Little cloudy orange to amber beer, some yellow small sediment floating around, under a big foarmy yellowish light beige head, pretty stable, adhesive. Aroma: cleaning product, bleach, paint, little fruity, bit musty, sweet sugary malts. MF: lots of carbon, medium body, creamy texture. Taste: sweet sugary start, very fruity, honey, passion fruits, peach candy, sweet pineapple, citrus fruits and sweet malts, some alcohol. Aftertaste: bit sugary, dry piny, somewhat fruity, bitter ending.
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
12/VI/2012 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from from The Bottle Shop (Canterbury) @ Klaas' place - BB: n/a (2012-617)
Little cloudy orange to amber beer, some yellow small sediment floating around, under a big foarmy yellowish light beige head, pretty stable, adhesive. Aroma: cleaning product, bleach, paint, little fruity, bit musty, sweet sugary malts. MF: lots of carbon, medium body, creamy texture. Taste: sweet sugary start, very fruity, honey, passion fruits, peach candy, sweet pineapple, citrus fruits and sweet malts, some alcohol. Aftertaste: bit sugary, dry piny, somewhat fruity, bitter ending.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2012
at 09:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at The Englander
Appearance: Clear golden with a medium sized white head and good lacing
Aroma: Tropical fruit and citrus
Taste: Fruity and grapefruit
A very nice, easy drinking IPA that is full flavored and well balanced.
Appearance: Clear golden with a medium sized white head and good lacing
Aroma: Tropical fruit and citrus
Taste: Fruity and grapefruit
A very nice, easy drinking IPA that is full flavored and well balanced.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2012
at 19:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the Trappist. Clear golden color, thick white head. Aroma of freshly mown grass. Taste is smooth grass, pine, fruits Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2012
at 21:06
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
355ml bottle from The Bottle Shop. Hazy copper amber colour bug beige head. Its a tasty ipa. Hops are leafy and rather good. Dryish ipa not overly sweet compared with the diamond knot industrial ipa. this is one of the best west coast ipa ive had. Really good
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2011
at 11:19
9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @ Beer Temple Amsterdam. Very hazy medium orange color, large white head. Smells SO SO good! Super fruity and hoppy! Such a fruity taste as well and superbly hopped! Medium bitterness. Smell and taste citrus as well. Absolutely very well balanced: superb mix of hops, bitter, citrus and alcohol. Just great!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2011
at 13:04
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
cloudy orange, smooth beige head. Herbal fresh hoppy aroma, malty balance. Flavor is caramelly, malty, quite sweet, good hoppy bitter balance.
Tried
on 23 Jul 2011
at 06:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dusky gold-amber liquid with a nice creamy head that leaves a good amount of lacing down the sides of the glass and a healthy cap on the beer. Caramel, biscuit for malt, and the hops are floral, herbal and somewhat citric. Good bitterness, good malt. It’s a tasty beer, but it’s really edging toward American IPA territory, rather than English. The hops are fairly dominant and there are very likely some American hops in the recipe. The malt has some English flavor, but it’s mostly overwhelmed by the hops. Relatively oily with hop essence. Not much alcohol presence. Bitter, nearly astringent, finish. Tastes like a mix of British and American hops, however it’s the British-leaning malt that really has me coming back for more.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2010
at 16:01