Fuggles IPA
Shipyard Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
5.86
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This light copper single hop India Pale Ale is brewed only with the Fuggles hops. It has a smooth, dry, and crisp flavor with floral aroma and apple plum palate.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
2004 bottle. Clear golden body, with a slight orange tinge to it. White head is not long retained. Aroma has a dirty, soily hops smell, but overal, not very strong (even from a tulip). Begins with a little bit of light caramel and honey and you quickly get some light fuzzy, leafy hops bitterness and flavor. It’s fairly dry and only a little bit juicy. Lots of bitterness on the end, but the hops flavor never really gets intense, funky, smoky or terribly flavorful. Medium body, no wateriness or thinning, but it’s not real full to begin with.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2005
at 08:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy copper body with abundant yeast sediment; medium clumping off-white head leaving nice lacing. Hoppy aroma, of the earthy-leafy variety, with a touch of tobacco. Full, rich Fuggles flavor with a touch of bubblegum, definite tobacco leaf, and associated earthy flavors before the bitter finish. Toasty with just the right touch of bubblegummy candy to offset the bitter resins. One of my favorite hops, delivering quite a bit of complexity, especially in relation to some of the more popular varieties. I wish more brewers would use Fuggles.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2005
at 22:28
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
$1.35 for a 12-oz single. Big fluffy head utop a ruddy-amber colored beer. Smells of apples and soap. Tastes of grassy apples, but is also very weak... not your typical IPA... not a terrible beer, but not very good either.
Tried
on 07 Nov 2004
at 15:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Shipyard is a pretty mediocre brewer in my opinion but this is one fo the few beers of theirs that i will seek out. +++Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a rich golden-amber color with a large creamy yellow head that lingers forever and produces nice lacing. The aroma is strong with malt, some fruit and sweet hop elements. The flavor is sweet, mildly bitter with a strong fuggles hop flavor. Very nice. Decent malt balance. A bit bitter on the finish. A nice pale ale though I doubt that I would classify it as an IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2004
at 20:45
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
The aroma is slightly hoppy. The color is a slightly hazy lihgt amber and it has an OK but fast disappearing head. The flavor is sweet and hoppy from aroma hops. It ends on a grassy note. It is not that bitter, so I would rather call it a standard ale than an IPA. An OK beer but nothing special.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2003
at 05:53