Shane's Big DIPA
Westbrook Brewing Co. in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.43
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle at Au Trappiste, Bern; 9% ABV, bottled 2/21/14
Hazy golden color. Being old, the aroma is still strong but not fresh, quite animal. Lean body, powerful, moderately sweet, with loads of resiny hops; the fruity side includes grapefruit, lemon, bitter orange peel.
Excellent. I can only long for a fresh bottle.
Hazy golden color. Being old, the aroma is still strong but not fresh, quite animal. Lean body, powerful, moderately sweet, with loads of resiny hops; the fruity side includes grapefruit, lemon, bitter orange peel.
Excellent. I can only long for a fresh bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2015
at 03:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewery pours a hazy orange with a ring of white head. Nose has orange, candy, vinous, white grape. Flavor is malty, orange, soap, yeast, white grape, grass. Sticky finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Feb 2015
at 13:46
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Warm golden colour, white head. Aroma of hops, lots of hops. Sweat, pine, tropical fruits. Bitter flavour, hops, malty backbone, grapefruit, pine. Bitter hoppy finish, citrus, pine.
(from draught @ CBC blue session, Copenhagen 2014. Thanks for sharing today’s beers, RateBeer crew!)
(from draught @ CBC blue session, Copenhagen 2014. Thanks for sharing today’s beers, RateBeer crew!)
Tried
on 20 Jan 2015
at 16:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Bottle @ VilleValla Pub, Linköping, Dec 12 2014) Pours a hazy medium orange with a moderate foamy white head. Aroma of citrus peel, resiny, a bit of pine, some faint tropical fruit notes, caramel malt sweetness and a fair amount of grain, exposed by hop fade I think, On the palate, sweet and fairly fruity at first, grapefruit, orange peel, a little tropical, pine resin builds in the middle. Becomes reasonably bitter later on with fairly robust caramel/pale malt core giving way to resin and, again, a fair amount of grain. Hop bitterness moderately high toward the finish with a bit of alcohol heat and that grain lingering on the tongue. Medium bodied and slightly oily with average carb. This was still a pretty decent IPA even though the bottle was clearly not fresh. The exposed grain bothered me but it would have been much better with that covered and the stronger hop flavour that did it. Will happily rerate fresh cause I think this is a pretty good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2014
at 14:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, Beer Moth, Manchester. Crept into the glass a hazy orange colour with a small white head. Nose was generous with the citrus/tropical fruits and piney hop. Sweet hoppy flavour with notes of caramel, resin and pineapple. Decent ABV smother and bitterness on point. Medium to fullish body. Would love to try a super fresh bottle. This was a very tasty DIPA and I’m feeling the star hopping connotations.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2014
at 09:19
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Vollmundig hopfiger Antrunk und weiterer Verlauf, blumig und fruchtig. Im Mittelteil eher noch intensiver, der Hopfen drängt zudem die Bitterkeit ab. Hell würzig, intensiver, nicht nachlassender Hopfen. Geringe Süße, kaum schmeckbarer Alkohol. 12/13/11/13/11/12
Tried
on 07 Sep 2014
at 03:47
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of obguthr, thank you sir! Slightly hazy golden yellow color. Nice aroma of dusty haystacks, fruit. Taste is nice, bitter tropical fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2014
at 10:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap at CBC 2014. Beer in the glass deep golden, small head. Hoppy-fruity aroma. Starts hoppy, quite bitter, some fruity notes of grapefruit and some lemon. Bitter finish. Okay.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Sep 2014
at 02:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014, blue session. 02/05/2014. Aroma is earthy resinous piney hop, some citrus. Bright golden coloured pour with a lasting white head. Flavour is composed of sticky resionous pine, clean caramel maltsPalate is sticky chewy hop resin, somewhat sweet. Good drinkable DIPA. Maybe a little sweet for my taste.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2014
at 14:14
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Beermoth, Manchester. Hazy, orangey gold. Thick, dense, lasting, just off white head. Lovely, fusty, slightly dank hop. Buttery, grapefruit marmalade on toast. Taste is thick, dried fruit sweet, first off, then a hefty, slightly metallic bitterness. Palate is full, thick, and oily. Finishes rich sweet, and heavy, zesty bitter. Daft easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2014
at 12:49