Shipwreck IPA (formerly Switchback IPA)
Lighthouse Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.77
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Shipwreck is a true West Coast style, hop-forward IPA with a little down-under to it. Featuring a unique combination of northern and southern hemisphere hops, Shipwreck is balanced with stone fruit, citrus notes, and a decidedly refreshing finish.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
(bottle) clear amber colour with a small white head; aromas of citrus, plums; predominantly bitter flavour with a long medium bitter finish; nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2013
at 15:44
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This IPA poured a clear light yellow colour with a quick living head. Scents include pineapple, lemon and grass. First sip had medium carbonation with a good kick of hops. Flavours of citrus, spruce and grass could all be found. Finish was quite bitter with hop flavor lingering.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2013
at 16:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can: Poured a deep amber color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some great lacing. Aroma of bitter and citrus hops notes is quite pleasant with some lightly sweet notes from the caramel malt. Taste is a good mix between some citrus hoppy notes with some notes of caramel malt which are sweeter then I would have liked. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Well brewed but a tad too much caramel malt and sweet for my own taste.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Oct 2013
at 09:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From the LCBO, in the BC Craft Brewers Guild Natural Selections 6-pack. Pours a clean rich golden with a big frothy off-white head, great retention and lots of foamy lace. Quite a beautiful head. Fresh grassy hops with some grapefruit and pine notes. Nice smooth bitterness with a little dryness. The grain is tasty and does balance out the hops. So, grass and cereal in the finish. A really like this one as not a hopbomb, not a macro IPA, but very well-blended to go down nicely, stay refreshing, but still be a real IPA.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2013
at 16:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Good IPA. Smells of super piney hops. Pours orange with great head and lacing. Finishes with some bitter grain and palate clearing mint. Far superior to their Beacon Hill. Lively carbonation. On tap at Garrick’s head.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2013
at 22:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft - Pure grapefruit and fruity sweetness. Pale clear gold with a thick head. Grapefruit and tropical fruit with a quick punch of bitterness and a clean finish. Nice sessionable IPA. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Apr 2013
at 12:52
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Golden, big lacing cream colored head. Quite resiny hop nose. Papery malt, grassy, resiny hops. Relatively quick grassy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2012
at 18:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Light amber color. Nice hoppy aroma, fruity and sweaty. Good toffee flavor, crisp, smooth, with strong hopping of excellent quality, with mild hop resins and fruity.
Very good.
Very good.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2012
at 01:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
355 ml bottle. Pours a clear light copper color with light head. Northwest hops aromas of citrus and pine with a hint of malts. Flavors of grapefruit, melon, cedar and some caramel. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2012
at 18:21
7.5/10
***had it as Switchback*** grapefruit, nothing strong then segues into a peach syrup flavor. Strong biscuity malt upfront kind of overshadows the hops
Tried
on 27 Jun 2012
at 07:15