Goose Island Beer Company Tropical Beer Hug

Tropical Beer Hug

 

Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
6.51
ABV: 9.9% IBU: 45 Ticks: 44
This big 9.9% Imperial IPA is super juicy and bursting with tropical flavors. Just the thing to accommodate a swing in the hammock.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Tropical fruit aroma with light citrus. Tropical fruit and light summer fruit flavor with light malt and light diesel. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and light summer fruit linger with light malt and light diesel.

Tried on 11 Sep 2025 at 15:31


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of piney bitter hops, ripe stone fruits, strong malt. Taste of strong pale malt, grains, citra, stone fruits, slightly boozy.

Tried from Can on 03 Sep 2025 at 18:35


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

19.2 oz can. Pours a clear golden yellow with a white head. Aroma has guava/passionfruit and orange ctirus hops. Flavor has more grassy hops, but still citrusy and tropical hops. Alcohol is kind of apparent as well. Overall, though, it's pretty nice.

Tried from Can from Meijer - Northville on 25 Aug 2025 at 03:31


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can pour shared by AdamChandler at Camp Tasting Finale--thanks, Adam! Clear, bright yellow with no sparkle, ring of head and no lacing. Aroma is citrus, background malt. Taste is citrus and base honey malt. Smooth, frothy texture, soft carbonation, finish as taste.

Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2025 at 02:31


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6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

19.3 oz. Can. Thanks Adam. Weird thing I don’t even really smell anything. Flavor is very weak mango and or pineapple. A little sugary on the finish. Not terrible. Certainly could get you drunk.

Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2025 at 02:00


6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Random grab. Yellow pour and small head. Nose is tropical melon and other fruits. Tastes of honey dew and star fruit, pineapple, oats. Little slick.

Tried on 10 Aug 2025 at 01:52


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Best by Oct 25, drunk 8/9025, thanks AChan.
Golden clear, frothy, white head
Fruity and tropical with lots of white breads and honey.
Juicy chicken, sofy, very yeasty and fruity. Light bitterness and lots of juice and bubble gum.

Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2025 at 01:48


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1
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1.5 | Flavor - 0.5 | Texture - 1 | Overall - 0.5

Big stovepipe can off the clearance shelf, for a buck, oh my!! Pour is clear pale and nose is big strong volatile IPA hops. First taste is simply straight up big ass alarming alky cloying perfume like a bitter biting bomb. Quick warming sensation on the smallest sip causes a frightening shock to the intake manifold system. What a mouth coating mega mess! Not sure why this is called tropical, its just a fricken unnerving agitation. No sign of anything tropical here. What on earth? I guess this stovepipe has one purpose in life; to get you a quick foreskin fookin bizz buzz; and half way thru the can, its working. Whew, goose island has come a long way since the first Gee Eye beers I had back in 2005. Seriously, this stuff is inducing the firewater hootch intoxicant moonshine palliative rotgut sauce gag reflex!! One bad ass ball busting bastard. I'll give it a +0.5 points for it accomplishing it's punishing purpose. Otherwise, if this was on sale every day, I'd by this instead of a 40 oz bottle of paper bag cheap malt likkah to catch the desired brain numbing effect. There, you have it.

Tried from Can from JR's Beer Warehouse on 13 May 2025 at 18:27


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Gold in color with a three-finger head. Aroma is citrus fruit, tropical fruit and hops. Taste is also citrus fruit, tropical fruit, and hops.

Tried on 21 Jan 2025 at 05:39