West Coast IPA
Flora Hall Brewing in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.13
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A quartet of Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo and Simcoe makes for a big-hop aroma and flavour. Moderate bitterness on a backbone of pleasant pilsner malt. Classic, yet modern.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A low,dense white head on a golden body. Lots of suspended material evident. The nose leads with caramel malt, citrus hops and some pepper. A nice IPA, but a little off the west coast IPA trail, which is not all that important. Biscuit malt and citrus hops lead the taste profile. Slightly sweet, a strong malt backbone, but hoppy citrus IBUs earn the IPA label. Melon and tropical fruit notes help smooth out the citrus hops. Medium body, solid carbonation and a smooth mouth feel
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy orange with a large white head. Lovely pine resin and grapefruit aroma. Slightly bready cereals, light toffee. Good mouth feel, soft carb. Medium bitter, lovely IPA.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:44
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap @ the brewpub. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are bitter hops, flowers, fruits, malt and has a nice bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2023
at 00:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
En fût à la brasserie le 27 mars 2019. Olfactif bien houblonné aux agrumes et fruits tropicaux. Notes de poivre. De couleur dorée tirant légèrement sur l'ambré, claire, avec une petite mousse laissant sa trace sur le verre. En bouche, c'est fruité avec des notes tropicales ressemblant à du litchi et une bonne amertume résineuse en finale. De corpulence moyenne et à l'effervescence piquante. Tout à fait correcte sans plus.
Tried
on 14 Jul 2019
at 15:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Dégustée le 2019-06-27. .
Tried
on 27 Jun 2019
at 22:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Tap at taproom. Clear pale amber colour, small white head. Hoppy sweat fruity aroma. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Piney, resiny flavour. A bit even wineous mouthfeel Quite thin malt base. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Mar 2019
at 23:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft @ the brewery. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grapefruit hoppy aroma. Fruity malty grapefruit hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty grapefruit hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2018
at 16:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A hazed golden ipa with a thin white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt with fragrant resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, herbaceous and dank. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, nice and smooth. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Dec 2017
at 17:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a hazy golden colour with a small orange hue. Nice white top with good retention and creamy lacing. Not completely filtered with lots of nice particles through it. Fresh hoppy aromas with grassy notes and citrus zest. The taste also has nice fresh hops, but not overloads. Herbal and zesty again. An easy-drinking IPA with lots of nice fruitiness. Just not sure about the West Coast title, as not a hopbomb. As an IPA, it is quite delicious.
Tried
on 02 Nov 2017
at 22:34