West Ghost IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Rotating|
Score
7.59
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An old-school IPA back from the dead, lest we forget that today's haze began bright. This West Coast ghost is uber crisp and proudly bitter, with notes of citrus and sweet fruit.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 ounce can fro Wegmans Princeton. Bright medium gold color. Large puffy white head. Aromas of crisp malt and spicy hops. Flavor has bittersweet citrus and piney notes. Think grapefruit and pine with pithy notes on backend. Crisp, malty and hoppy. West coast all the way.
Tried
from Can
from
Wegmans - Princeton
on 04 Sep 2026
at 03:29
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
473ml can. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of pine, resin, grapefruit, orange. Taste is wonderfully hoppy, loads of piney resinous hops, grapefruit, citrus peel, pithy orange, a touch of caramel among the biscuity malt base, strong bitterness throughout that lingers in the finish. Medium bodied. Quality westie.
Tried
from Can
from RAD Beer
on 21 Aug 2026
at 20:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Can from The Beerhive. Clear golden body with an off-white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of honey and lemon. Flavour of grapefruit and honey. Medium body with an oily mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Clean and bright. Very good.
Tried
from Can
from
Beerhive
on 21 Aug 2026
at 09:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Gold body with good white head. Citrus and evergreen aroma. Hoppy taste with fruit notes. Good body, fruity finish.
Tried
from Can
at
Saraveza
on 04 Aug 2026
at 20:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours clear gold into a willi. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spotty sheets. Caramel and pine aromas. Sharp with sweet lemon/lime juice, pith and peel front to back. Lasting grapefruit pith finish. Nice, old school IPA.
Tried
on 15 Jul 2026
at 22:27
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Draft
at
Shelter
on 16 Jun 2026
at 23:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Four pack from the not local at all H-E-B in San Antonio. Struck out locally but find plenty on a work trip, figures.
Straight from the can for most of these.
Resin-y nose with some macerated orange, irritating herbal.
Strong dank is my first impression. Dry & piney, weedy, very pithy rind, slightly medicinal finish.
Frothy, bold carbonation, very dry & constant, boozy.
It comes off a bit too intense to enjoy the four pack but has most of everything else you need in a wcipa.
Straight from the can for most of these.
Resin-y nose with some macerated orange, irritating herbal.
Strong dank is my first impression. Dry & piney, weedy, very pithy rind, slightly medicinal finish.
Frothy, bold carbonation, very dry & constant, boozy.
It comes off a bit too intense to enjoy the four pack but has most of everything else you need in a wcipa.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2026
at 22:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can to becher glass.
Appearance is shown in the picture
Aroma: mixed citrusy to piney hoppy tones up front with a light orange rind bitterness rising up from underneath
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to semi-bitter to bittersweet quality; finishes semi-sticky with a subtle citrusy to piney danky wet tone
Texture: light to medium bodied; sessionable; good smoothness with a nice carb level and hop bitterness assertiveness seemed on par for the West coast level-ed IPA
Overall: oh hullo old friend of a West coast styled IPA! Why of course I would return to this.
Appearance is shown in the picture
Aroma: mixed citrusy to piney hoppy tones up front with a light orange rind bitterness rising up from underneath
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to semi-bitter to bittersweet quality; finishes semi-sticky with a subtle citrusy to piney danky wet tone
Texture: light to medium bodied; sessionable; good smoothness with a nice carb level and hop bitterness assertiveness seemed on par for the West coast level-ed IPA
Overall: oh hullo old friend of a West coast styled IPA! Why of course I would return to this.
Tried
from Can
from
Beverage Warehouse of Vermont
on 02 May 2026
at 21:29