Future Tripping
Barley Forge Brewing Company in Costa Mesa, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz can poured. I brought a six pack of this back from my trip to Orange County, and much to my surprise, especially within the style, they seem to be getting better after each can. Solid golden pour, slight hazy, thin fizz head. Aroma is a bright citrus hop quality, with slight boozy impressions. Flavor is smoother than aroma may indicate. Caramel like malts sit underneath a ripe fruit rind like hop character. Flavor is interesting. I remember being bothered by a vegetal hop character my first taste of this at the taproom, and even the first can I cracked out of the pack, but the last two cans seem to have that feature absent. Cant explain it really, but the product I get out of this can, and the last one or two, is quite the exceptional imperial.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
12 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out dank hops, herbal notes and biscuity malt. Flavour is full of vegetables, herbal hops, oxidized notes, and bready malt. Lots of cabbage and bitterness. No good.
bb (18607) reviewed Future Tripping from Barley Forge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. Golden beer with a cream head. Grapefruit aroma. Summer fruit and light tropical fruit flavor with grapefruit and light pine. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Summer fruit and grapefruit linger with light tropical fruit and light pine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
32oz crowler pours with a crystal clear pure gold body that supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up thin booze, faint toffee coated grapefruit and pineapple like hoppiness and then a tangelo note toward. The taste delivers bitter pine hops blended into bitter grapefruit along with a bit of soft sweet maltiness. A wafer thin booziness wrapped around a mild juicy tangelo sensation surface and help drag this thing into the finish. Pretty nice without flaw sipper but not particularly exciting. I'd drink this again without a problem.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Bine & Vine. Pours gold with a slight white head. Aroma indicates it’s trying to be dank and piney/citrus. Med body or so. I call light dank. Flavor is citrus, fruit and I think pine. It’s not quite dry, it’s very hoppy, and it approaches bitter dankness. Nice to drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a hazy orange with a large white head. Aroma is typical west coast IPA with lots of pine and citrus. Flavor is more pine hops with a strong malty backbone. This has west coast IPA written all over it. A little too much malt presence as this is a bit sweet but plenty of hop comes through.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On 2nd June 2016 I was taken to the Taphouse before an LA Galaxy game. Five beer flight, plus a 16oz glass. This was one of my chosen beers in the flight. Golden amber pour, full off-white head. Tropical fruits in both the aroma and taste, leaning towards citrusy: mild malty base for balance: liked it.