Kykao - Handcrafted West Coast IPA

West Coast IPA

 

Kykao - Handcrafted in Patras, Western Greece, Greece 🇬🇷

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
6.79
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 90 Ticks: 7
The evolution of our core West Coast-ish IPA! Boosting the body, aroma and flavor in this hop bomb!

Talus delivers big tropical fruits aroma and pink grapefruit and Cashmere with delicate yet strong aromas melon, peach, and sweet tangerine. Sabro and Citra in lower amounts complement these hops by adding secondary notes include coconut, candied fruit and mango!
 

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7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 6 Overall 7
450ml can. Slightly cloudy, yellow-ish, golden colour with small to average, frothy, osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head. Resinous and fruity, hoppy aroma, minimally spicy, pale malty background, notes of tangerine, lemon, some peach, melon, a touch of cracker, coconut overtones. Taste is resinous and fruity hoppy, sweet-ish, minimally biscuity and spicy, pale malty basis, notes of tangerine, lemon, melon, white grapes, a touch of peach, coconut, some zesty and herbal bitterness.
Oily-watery texture, slightly dry palate, medium, to coarse, scattered, mildly prickly carbonation.
Nice composition, nice fruit flavours - nice.
Tried from Can on 22 Feb 2026 at 14:30

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can courtesy of Kostas, Kykao brewery received this week. Consumed at home Friday 2nd May 2025 listening to Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys and cooking Souvlaki on the BBQ with Minty Potatoes, Fiery Mango Relish, Tsatsiki and and Salad. Difficult to know how different this is to the West Coast IPA I have already rated from Kykao, but label certainly seems new to me. Pours milky yellow in colour, white head, immediately struck by hoppy burps. Very hoppy, bitter and yet this does have a different twist to a regular US brewed as crystal malt appears to be conspicuous by its absence and there is a soft rounded mouthfeel, however it's a very nice beer, seems almost like a crossover from a NEIPA to a West Coast IPA but in a 30/70 configuration. --- Beer merged from original tick of West Coast IPA on 24 Feb 2022 at 17:54 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Can courtesy of Kostas, Kykao brewery cheers mate 👍 consumed at home Thursday 24th February 2022 listening to Steve Lamaq on 6Music. Making homemade Pizza tonight. Pours with a light haziness (unfiltered?) tarnished gold with a white head. Not so much floral notes as description suggests, there is a light citrus note. Taste is citrussy, primarily grapefruit but with a brisk fruity bite, mid bitterness, not sweet, certainly not harsh as Marduk suggests, drying at the finish. Quite good, but it's interesting when breweries go for the cleaner tasting pale West Coast IPA as opposed to the big crystal malt laden beasts that the likes of Sierra Nevada, Stone etc excel in. Whilst there is a decent sized white head, there is still a slight lack of carbonation.
Tried from Can at Kykao Handcrafted Microbrewery on 02 May 2025 at 18:14

7/10
#greece
Tried from Draft on 12 Mar 2025 at 23:29

7/10
See nüüd küll west coast pole.. tavaline neipa laadne toode, magus, mõru, mehune, puuviljane, tsitrusene. Ok.
Tried from Can on 08 Feb 2025 at 18:00

7/10
Tried from Can on 19 Jul 2023 at 23:07

5/10
Gherkins, sourish, citrus, bitter, harsh
Tried from Draft on 23 Dec 2021 at 16:43

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of citrus, juicy tropical fruits, tangerine and floral hops. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle at Iznogood Beerock Bar on 06 Jul 2021 at 17:32