Palm Sway
Coronado Brewing Company in Coronado, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.92
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Gold Medal Winner – English India Pale Ale or New Zealand India Pale Ale – 2021 Great American Beer Festival. The Island-Style IPA is an ale that delivers certain features of a hazy IPA (i.e. tropical, juicy), but finishes clear and crisp from the use of Cal Ale yeast. It’s loaded with an abundance of New Zealand and West Coast hops including Chinook, Citra, Comet, El Dorado, Mosaic, Motueka, and Waimea, giving the beer incredibly juicy, fruit-forward notes of pineapple, mango, stone fruit, citrus, and pine.
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7/10
Tried
on 07 Aug 2024
at 15:00
8/10
Tried
on 04 Aug 2024
at 21:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Systembolaget. A bit hazy golden with a medium white head. Quite soft with pineapple, passionfuit and mild pine. Fairly soft bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Aug 2024
at 05:42
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2024
at 00:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
--Canned, from Systembolaget. -- Clear golden, mid sized head. Grapefruity nose. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Grapefruity hopz on elastic slender malt. Long bitter finish
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2024
at 15:56
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Last one on Coronado Island, Feb '24. Clear, bright, medium gold, frothy pour. Bittersharp, cheese, weed wacker, sweet malt. Lemongrass, slight offal/farm, long grassy & pith bitterness. Dirty. Didn't like this one. Time to walk.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2024
at 00:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Super clear golden and light copper coloured body with a pretty thick, three centimetre tall off-white frothy and creamy head that stays afloat over the perfectly clear and effervescent body. Aroma of grass, hay, flowers, light citrus, tons of alpha acids and a good kick of bread and very biscuity malts in the nose, at least. Light to barely Medium-bodied; Relatively crisp and doughy, biscuity and pretty grainy malt notes dominate up front, but provide a nice support for some citrusey and lightly hoppy, bitter notes behind and a dry finish with a light kick of alcohol noticeable, too. Aftertaste shows some floral and perfumey notes from the hops, with a nice hop bitterness (relatively light for the style) but the biscuity, doughy and pretty strong malt and yeast notes stay strongest in the palate. Overall, a decent enough IPA that has a distinct malt quality that almost makes this taste like a lager, but this is crisp and does have some hop bitterness and a decently balanced IPA, on the light side. Nice to sample and really only worth the space in my suitcase from California to Oklahoma and back to Washington, because of the great price! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Trader Joe's in Fairfield, California on 28-August-2022 for US$2,09! canned on 26-May-2022 with #4629 marked on the bottom of the can, and sampled at my house here in Washington on 10-October-2022.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Feb 2024
at 06:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Kind of a mess. Golden pour with ok head. Grapefruit, some malt. Lots of lime. Almost Gose like liminess. Tangy finish. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Nov 2022
at 20:40
So good, that I shared the rest with the Pacific Ocean.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Oct 2022
at 16:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
473ml can. Pours a slightly hazy gold-amber with a medium, foamy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves soapy curtains of lace. Sweet fruity aroma of caramel malt, tangerine, orange, apricot, mango and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of caramel malt, grapefruit, apricot, mango, pineapple and piney hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Light to medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Not bad, but a little boring.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2022
at 04:28