Elevated IPA
La Cumbre Brewing Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.67
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Chriso’s tasting 30/12/12. Light amber gold colour. Big piny resinous aroma. Grapefruit. Relatively low bitterness. Mid carbonation and mod sweet finish. Piny finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2012
at 04:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at Chriso tasting new year 2012/13. Clear gold thin white head. Very hoppy aroma. good. yes tasty grapefruit hoppy beer.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2012
at 07:21
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the source courtesy of erway, thank you sir! Hazy golden color, small white head. Aroma has tangerine, tropical fruits, pine. Taste has more fruit, citrus, pine. Nice malt balance, so it’s not overly aggressive. Delicious.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2012
at 03:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Excellent IPA. Very fresh. Pours a light, golden yellow, with small head. Hop aroma and very strong, bitter hop flavor, with citrus notes and a bitter finish.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2012
at 19:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at GABF 10/13/2012, thanks to Bluemeow76 for assistance with note-taking. Slightly hazy orange-amber color with a medium ivory white head and strings of lacing. Citrus, hops and malt in the nose. Medium-bodied with a citrusy hops character and notes of herbs and bready malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a hoppy aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2012
at 14:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Several pours from a growler generously shared by csbosox, who picked this up at the brewery approximately 10 days ago. The pour is copper orange ruby with a smallish off white head. Nice lacing left as the beer falls. The aroma is resin, catty, slightly dank, hint of pine, some cracker malt and a nice mineral note in the finish. The taste is big resin right away, great dank bitterness, toasted malt, quite dry in the finish with a great mineral after taste. The palate is medium bodied, a lower carbonation level, and the dry crisp finish. Thanks a ton Chris for bringing this back and sharing, I have been wanting to try a La Cumbre beer since they started up. I would love to try this fresh at the source, even after 10 days in a growler this was great.
Tried
from Growler
on 09 Feb 2012
at 06:57
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Courtesy of ketchepillar at the Black Friday Tasting, thanks Sam, pouring up clear deep gold with an off white head. The aroma offers up rich citrus goodness with a nice supporting layer of malty sweetness in the background. Smells of pure YUM. The taste has firm bitter and flavor citrus hops rolling into modest levels of sweet maltiness. The citrus hops are just rich and vibrant and nicely sweetened up by the maltiness. This is crisp and yummy and amazing stuff. I could drink a ton of this. This is one of those beers that starts off amazing and somehow gets even better the more you drink.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2012
at 08:26
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Hazy amber. Big hop aroma is earthy. A bit cheesy, too. Medium hops, earthy. Clean pale malt sweetness is good. The funny thing about this is that it does hit the right notes...and you can drink a lot of it. There’s no one thing that makes it, but it ends up being a damn good IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2011
at 21:52
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap, multiple samples and GABF. Pours a clear bright yellow to light orange hue with a medium sized white head. Aromas are extremely dank with an over ripe fruit aroma that I associate with CTZ. Dank, fruity pungent and herbaceous. Flavors have some dry hop grassiness to them. Very dry, fruity dank, overripe (CTZ) character. Very light malt character but a pleasant bitter balance overall (no harsh bitterness, only harshness is the light grassy character). Very dry (good), medium bubbles. Very tasty!
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Oct 2011
at 14:37
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
on tap-pours an off white head and yellow color. Aroma is sweet pine/resin, some light/medium malt. Taste is sweet pine/resin hops bite, some light/medium malt. Good effervescence.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jul 2011
at 19:39