Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company Refuge IPA

Refuge IPA

 

Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company in Gilbert, Arizona, United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
7.35
ABV: 6.8% IBU: 75 Ticks: 43
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.
 

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7/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft - Lots of grapefruit with a malt backbone. Clear orange with a thin head. Upfront bitterness, grapefruit pith all the way through. A little malt sweetness would have made this a great IPA.
Tried from Draft on 14 Feb 2014 at 10:45

8/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Tsp at the brewery. Pretty great and refreshing straightforward IPA. Pours copper orange with beige head. Loads of citrus on the nose. Tastes of juicy citrus, bitter pine, melons, and earth. Dry and bitter finish.
Tried on 12 Feb 2014 at 18:58

8.8/10 β€” Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
This pours up with a moderate degree of opacity where deep copper and thin gold hues are displayed as well as a light tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up notes of malt sweetened citrus and then thin wisps of spicy to dank earthy onion hoppiness and a touch of pine. The very first swig actually seemed on the sweet side. Additional sips refute that finding as I?m getting a pleasing rush of grapefruit, tangelo and mango like hop flavor that bleeds into a pleasing degree of citrus hop bitterness that gets an edge of resiny pine hop goodness to it. Behind those notes are modest levels of spicy dank hops, sweet malts and then a faint malt graininess (and when the palate was slightly fatigued that enjoyable note was gone). Yet another Wilderness beer I can see myself drinking and drinking and never stopping. Love it.
Tried from Can on 08 Oct 2013 at 18:55