Refuge IPA
Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company in Gilbert, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.35
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Original description:
Hop heads unite! This West Coast style IPA feeds the hops fiends that clamor for the greenery. Mango, melon and fresh cut pine fills the air, and you are taken to your refuge! Chinook, Simcoe, Cascade, and Columbus are all to blame for your longing of our take on the IPA. Let this be your refuge of taste!
Current description:
Our flagship IPA born in our founder's garage. This beer has evolved over the years into a perfectly balanced IPA with a 100% Sinagua Malt base and citrus-forward American hops.
Hop heads unite! This West Coast style IPA feeds the hops fiends that clamor for the greenery. Mango, melon and fresh cut pine fills the air, and you are taken to your refuge! Chinook, Simcoe, Cascade, and Columbus are all to blame for your longing of our take on the IPA. Let this be your refuge of taste!
Current description:
Our flagship IPA born in our founder's garage. This beer has evolved over the years into a perfectly balanced IPA with a 100% Sinagua Malt base and citrus-forward American hops.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Light pine and some citrus. Golden pour with great head and lacing like Victoria’s Secret. Light bitter finish. Tap at Churchkey.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2017
at 16:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Arizona Wilderness, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out a good mix of piney and resinous hops upfront, with a subdued dry biscuity malt backbone. Flavour is along the same lines, with loads of piney and resinous hops upfront, followed by dry biscuity malt. Balanced well, clean and with loads of depth. Excellent by-the-books American IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jul 2016
at 11:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Nonic pint type draft at the brewpub in Gilbert, Arizona. The pour is a slight haze golden orange with a foamy white head. The aroma is fruity bright citrus hop, some grass and a nice background of biscuit malt. The taste is the bright fruit citrus hops, adds a bit of pine and finishes dry with the grass. The biscuit malt is present, and provides a great backbone to the beer. The palate is medium bodied with active carbonation and the dry clean finish. Nice one.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2016
at 08:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Modern Times Festival of Dankness, San Diego, CA
Pours orange with a foamy white head. Aroma Aroma caramely malts, toffee, pine and resin. Taste is smooth, sweetish and malty with some caramely notes. Finish is smooth, sweetish and malty. Okay.
Pours orange with a foamy white head. Aroma Aroma caramely malts, toffee, pine and resin. Taste is smooth, sweetish and malty with some caramely notes. Finish is smooth, sweetish and malty. Okay.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2015
at 20:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Festival of Dankness, San Diego. Aroma is quite interesting with some herbal tones, grass and minerals. Flavour has minerals, herbal tones and some harsh bitterness. Not that fruity and not exactly my thing.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2015
at 17:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a cloudy orange with small frothy white head. The aroma is dank and pine. Medium mouth, mango, grapefruit, pine, lingerig bitterness, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2015
at 13:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with a dark cream head. Grapefruit and pine aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with light dark malts. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with light dark malts.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Apr 2015
at 18:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Growler thanks to Ilya! Pours a clear amber red with an orange hue with a near white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of dankness with pine and a hint of grapefruit. Flavor has bitter pine and resin with a good amount of dankness and a hint of grain.
Tried
from Growler
on 17 Apr 2014
at 17:35
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Location: Draft at the Brewpub, 3/7/14
Aroma: It has a big west coast hop aroma of pine/resin, juicy citrus/grapefruit, and some grass
Appearance: It pours a clear golden-orange color with a mid-sized head and lace on it
Flavor: The taste is right on-style, big hop bitterness, citrus/grapefruit, just dank and yummy
Palate: The body is medium-plus, it has a clean, smooth feel, and a long, dry finish
Overall Impression: Excellent example of a west-coast style IPA. It has a really nice aroma and an even better flavor. I really enjoyed this.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Mar 2014
at 15:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Growler from Daknole, consumed fresh. Pours clear orange with a medium white head, creamy and nice lacing. Aroma is grapefruit, passionfruit, mango, dank with notes of cat piss. How I like it :). Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, a touch of grain perhaps. Not harsh, but a bit of a lingering bitter finish. Medium body. Nice effort; would have been exceptional as recently as a couple of years ago.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Mar 2014
at 08:15