Elusive Brewing Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail

 

Elusive Brewing in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  IPA - West Coast Special
Score
7.51
ABV: 5.8% IBU: - Ticks: 43
We went big on the hops here with lots of Simcoe, Chinook and Columbus for a classic take on the West Coast IPA style. We went big on bitterness too, to balance out the malt body. Brewed in collaboration with West St Alehouse.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

A golden ipa with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, light treacle, piney c hops, very nice. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, piney notes, dank notes, very nice. On tap at Ghost Whale Putney.

Tried from Draft from Ghost Whale Putney on 26 Nov 2025 at 17:38


7.5

Tried on 07 Nov 2025 at 18:55


6

Keg at graf 2025. Pours golden, nose is vegetative, citrus, floral, taste is sweet, zesty, floral. 6

Tried on 19 Jun 2025 at 18:17


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

keg at G-RAF 2025 festival ...gold amber ..thin white lacing soft sweet
.juicy floral fruit nose ..juicy sweet fruit

Tried on 19 Jun 2025 at 17:18


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Creamy white head on a murky amber coloured body. Boiled sweets, stone fruit & malt aroma. Medium bodied, lively with a dry back. Stone fruit, resinous, stewed fruits, marmalade & malt tastes with a bitterly hopped finish but some weird cleaning agent aftertaste......

Tried on 19 Aug 2024 at 21:12


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Grapefruit, some pine bark. Golden with good fluffy white head and lacing. Finishes bitter. Tap several months ago at Cloudwater.

Tried from Draft on 24 Feb 2024 at 21:45


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Keg at Hop Vault; aroma has pine, taste has pine, grapefruit, mango, sweet malts, aggressive bitter backbone, excellent.

Tried on 20 Jul 2023 at 10:46


7

Tried on 01 Jul 2023 at 14:01


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Tap at 73 Enid Street. A clear bright golden yellow coloured pour with a a lasting sticky white head. Aroma is nice big weedy dank hop hockey puck, plastic chive. Clean base malts on the nose. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rounded, clean base malts, slightly nutty, dank pine, some weed, hop resin, spicy finish. Palate is semi sweet, resinous hop, to slightly crisp finiah, fine moderate carbonation, really well put together beer. Old school West Coast vibes, with modern twist.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jun 2023 at 16:13


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Keg draught at Tønne, Leicester. Light gold and mostly clear with a big ring of white head. Piney aroma with hints of a grassy, spicy character and a strong, almost metallic bittering hop. Sweet and malty at first with hoppy bitterness following quickly behind. Hints of citrus nearer the finish. Slight body with fairly heavy carbonation. Nice old school IPA.

Tried on 08 Jun 2023 at 18:55