Deftones Swerve City IPA
Belching Beaver in Vista, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.03
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Encore! We had so much fun with the Deftones and out Phantom Bride collaboration that we had to bring them back for a new series of seasonal releases. The outpouring of support from fans at home and abroad could not be ignored. Swerve City IPA captures the tropical vibes of POG juice. With the classic combination of passion fruit, orange and guava, it's like summertime in a bottle! So, sit back, put on your headphones, and drink away. Cheers - Tom
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is big passion fruit with stone fruits, grapefruit, peach, tropical fruits, guava. Candied fruits. Flavour is moderate sweet with a modest bitterness. Body is medium. Very fruited, lacks bitter hoppy counterbalance. Somewhat enjoyable, but too much Fruit Beer and too little IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 ounce can from Super Food in Aruba. Hazy orange gold pour. Frothy beige head. Citrusy fruit aroma. Flavor is sweet tropical fruit juice. Orange, mango, passion fruit and lemon. Soft mouthfeel. Some earthy malt and citrusy hops on backend. Enjoyable on the warm Aruban sand with the blue Caribbean sprawled out in front of me!
Tried
from Can
on 07 Dec 2022
at 17:29
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 473ml can on 10/8/2020. Pours a clear medium golden with a biggish white head. Has a pleasant passion fruit and guava nose. The taste is exactly as advertised - distinct POG flavours with the fruit balanced nicely with a modest hop bitterness. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Just a really well made, balanced, flavoursome brew.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2020
at 11:38
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
22 oz bottle poured, picked up at Hop and Hound. After drinking what seems like a full keg worth of Phantom Bride over the last couple years, I'm glad to see this one come around. An amazing IPA here, and captures the POG perfectly. Hazy appearance, golden orange color as expected. Juicy orange, peach, pineapple aroma. Really juicy IPA here. So much fresh fruit taste. Nice hoppy constant to follow the first taste, which indicates a pure juice drink. Love the beer here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2018
at 21:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at the North Park venue. Pours gold with a creamy white head. Aroma seems grapefruit. Med body or a bit more. Flavor shows passionfruit, grapefruit and guava. Rather tangy tropical stuff. Juicily undry but with the p and g, maybe some g rind, it comes out bitter. Guava is parsable, but somewhat overpowered. Good bitter drink.
Earlier Rating: 7/15/2017 Total Score: 4
Bomber from Bine & Vine. Pours gold with a whitehead. Aroma is to die for. Tropicals with an extra emphasis on Kiwi. Med + body or better. Flavor is passion, orange, kiwi, guava. Some light malt background. It’s like floral perfume. MFG - what hath been wrought here? Ok - this is new ground breaking. Kudos to the brew team. I am stunned. (tho not tasered) Not quite dry, pretty darn bitter, and very fruity. Who could have forecast this in 1975?
Earlier Rating: 7/15/2017 Total Score: 4
Bomber from Bine & Vine. Pours gold with a whitehead. Aroma is to die for. Tropicals with an extra emphasis on Kiwi. Med + body or better. Flavor is passion, orange, kiwi, guava. Some light malt background. It’s like floral perfume. MFG - what hath been wrought here? Ok - this is new ground breaking. Kudos to the brew team. I am stunned. (tho not tasered) Not quite dry, pretty darn bitter, and very fruity. Who could have forecast this in 1975?
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Sep 2018
at 22:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
25th September 2017
Lightly hazy gold beer, big pale cream colour head. Lovely snout of sweet tropical fruits, candy fruits and mild pine. Palate is airy, mildly dry and has decent fine carbonation. Light dry malts, mildly sweet. Hops foillow the nose but just a tad less intense. Opal fruits and mild yellow grapefruit. Light dry finish. Interesting and tasty IPA but it wants a better malt base.
Lightly hazy gold beer, big pale cream colour head. Lovely snout of sweet tropical fruits, candy fruits and mild pine. Palate is airy, mildly dry and has decent fine carbonation. Light dry malts, mildly sweet. Hops foillow the nose but just a tad less intense. Opal fruits and mild yellow grapefruit. Light dry finish. Interesting and tasty IPA but it wants a better malt base.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2017
at 02:58
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
22oz bottle at the Bottle Shop in Bermondsey, pours a mostly clear gold with some tight, white head. Nose is big with fruity, guava, mango, melon, grass, passionfruit. Flavor follows, some tangerine, a little paper on the back end, guava, passionfruit. Sounds crazy, but it's overly fruity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2017
at 03:58