Fat Tug
Driftwood Brewery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.36
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Brewed with the hop aficionado in mind, Fat Tug is a Northwest-style India Pale Ale with an intense hop profile featuring notes of grapefruit, mango, melon and passionfruit. Sufficient malt is there to provide support. At 7% alc/vol and 80+ IBUs this beer delivers on the promise to satisfy anyone with a thirst for all things hoppy!
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From a 65 cl bottle. Pours a hazy gold with an off white head. Fruity nose. Flavors of mandarin orange, pineapple and pine. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2016
at 20:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from the Beerhive, drunk on the hottest day of the year after some lacklustre gardening as some kind of reward. Pours hazy yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of near-minty herbs, savoury, sweet malt, faint citrus. Taste is resinous, sweet orange, then a forced rhubarb kind of thing, stewed with white sugar, lightly astringent, but also fruity and sweet, like John Inman in Are You Being Served. Good balance of flavours, lots going on, but also slips down very easily. Texture is just on the right side of oily, fragrantly bitter on the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2016
at 11:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at Draught 55, copper pour small head. Nose is candy and some melon. Tastes of peach, honey dew, candied malts, caramel, some grassy tones. Sweet sugary plate would have guess DIPA but I guess abv slipped under radar.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Apr 2016
at 16:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bouteille 66cl partagée avec Tomaz. Merci à Asheft - Alex for the trade. Fin doré, léger orange, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme au bouquet plaisant, tout comme son design etiquette, fruité tirant sur les agrumes, rétro de pin avec un malté sous-jacent biscuité. Palais est légèrement houblonné, fruité, huileux avec une touché poivrée, amertume perduranre pregnant des accents d’agrumes. Abricot, touche de melon, malt pils cara pale avec une fin rappelant encore l’herbacé et le pin.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2016
at 04:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(bottle) clear, bright orange colour with a small beige head; aroma of fruit, resin; balanced, intense flavour with a long, light bitter finish; quite nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2016
at 18:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a mildly hazy golden-orange colour with and off-white frothy head, good retention and lots of lacing. Beautiful aromas of grapefruits, caramel malts, tangerine and decent hops. Slick smooth mouthfeel heading over to a mild dry end. Again, some grapefruit in the taste with a little more zest, and some nice caramel background. A little more on the sweeter, fruity side then grassiness. Very easy to drink the whole bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2016
at 18:49
8/10
good ipa
Tried
on 07 Mar 2016
at 15:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
650ml bottle from Hippo Beers. Pours a orange-gold amber colour with a white foam head leaving lacing and aroma of tropical fruits, mango, citrus, orange, hoppy. Taste is malt caramel, juicy fruits, mango, passionfruit, floral citrus, grapefruit & pine, resiny hop with spicy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, dry tangy bitter finish. Very drinkable IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2016
at 14:17
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from the LCBO. Hazy medium gold with a one finger lingering off white head that leaves nice lace. Nose is big citrus, tropical fruit and pine with grapefruit being dominant over top of a light caramel and spice. Very light sweet caramel and honey are secondary to a big dose of bitterness that lasts through the finish. Mouth is medium slick with average carbonation and a lingering bitter finish. Yum.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2016
at 20:42
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle - pours yellow gold white head - nose/taste of lemon, melon, tropical fruit, pine, grapefruit and caramel malt - medium body
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2015
at 18:48