Bear State
Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England 🏴
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.23
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Bear State is a classic IPA brewed in the spirit of the West Coast of the USA. This is a massively hoppy beer, balanced perfectly with a touch of malt sweetness and an intensely citrus hop character to finish.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @C4. Clear amber, small creamy white head. Fruity aroma, peach and grape. Similar flavour, juicy with light piney bitterness. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 May 2015
at 08:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the hanging bat. Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Aromas of resinous hops. Taste is slightly chalky, hop bitter. Medium body, bitter finish.
Tried
on 20 May 2015
at 12:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
A golden beer, a head is blond and medium. Aroma has tropical mangos and grapefruits, hint of papaiyas, sensitive. If the aroma was even cautious, then a taste has more rough notes. Citrusfruits and strong pine needles, hint of tropical fruits, a bitterness is strong and dominating, the body is quite dry but it’s not only a role of assistant. The bitterness is piney with some resin in the end. Medium bodied, medium carbonation. Roughly hopped. Good and fresh IPA.
Tried
on 19 May 2015
at 14:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bought bottled as Bear State from Good Spirits Co. Clear golden beer with a white, bubbly head. Light, zesty aroma which smells of lime in particular. Flavour is initially REALLY sweet but it soon settles and, oddly, almost immediately becomes quite dry and bitter, which is the flavour which lasts. It’s a touch unusual and pretty strong so it’d be a sipper rather than a guzzler but it’s quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2015
at 16:07
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at the hanging bat. Pours clear golden, nose is cheesy and herbal, taste is dry, light fruit, sweet, salty. 2.9 Keg at the Hanging bat, blind tasting. Pours clear golden amber, nose is sweaty, grassy, taste is dry, herbal, grassy. 2.5
Tried
on 11 May 2015
at 11:30
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at the hanging bat.. Golden amber.. Small white head.. Sweet zezty fruits nose... Juicy fruits.. Dry zezty fruits.. Light soft passion fruit.. Light cheesy linger Keg at Bat blind ... dark amber ... thin white head .. soft sweet cheesy fruit nose ... cheesy fruit front .. soft orange ... light passion fruit 3.1
Tried
on 11 May 2015
at 11:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft @ Tilquin English beer festival, 2015. Dorée, col blanc. Arôme offre un bouquet intéressant huileux-houblonné, résineux et houblons typique des 3-C. Pointe d’agrumes en rétro. Palais est renfermé et houblonné assez plaisant, Simcoe-like, Centennial, note de pin et de forêt.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 May 2015
at 13:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle as Bear State. Pours gold with decent white head. A very drinkable West Coast pale with a restrained hoppy, floral citrus character. Not a lot else to say about it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2015
at 16:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
@ Tilquin English Beer Festival 2015. Hazy blond colour, white foam. Aroma of grapefruit and pine. Sweet hints of tropical fruit with bitter hoppy aftertaste. Good!
Tried
on 05 May 2015
at 08:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled draft as “Bear State”@ Tilquin English Beer Festival 2015. Clear pale, creamy white. Bitter floral nose, bitter grass, herbal, light malts,… Taste is bitter grass, floral, herbal with some herbal caramel malts, pine resin hops,… Dry malt body. Bit too herbal, floral profile for me but nice still.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 May 2015
at 16:06