Elusive Brewing Destination IPA

Destination IPA

 

Elusive Brewing in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: Burning Sky Brewery / The Kernel Brewery
  IPA - West Coast Special
Score
7.48
ABV: 6.5% IBU: 60 Ticks: 15
Brewed in collaboration with our friends Burning Sky, The Kernel Brewery and Phil Lowry, this American-style IPA uses a mix of classic Yakima valley hop varieties along with experimental variety HBC522 to deliver notes of orange citrus, pine resin and grapefruit in a bright and bitter package. Brewed to celebrate our founder Andy's 50th birthday.
 

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

Thanks white! Yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is catpissy, some herbal and grassy tones with mild biscuity and sweet malty tones. Flavour fruity, floral, some biscuity and mild grainy tones with some mild earthy bitterness to it.

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 17:21


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Canned, from Systembolaget. Hazy golden, mid sized head. Aroma of citrus, elderflowers and piney yuzu. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity, grainy malt. Stonefruit and grapefruit, some lime. Mid bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 18 Jan 2025 at 19:51


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Foamy white head left a froth on a hazy dull lemon coloured body. Dusty & stone fruit aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a sharp finish. Malt, pine, grapefruit, pithy & resinous tastes with a bitter finish. Class West Coast.

Tried on 23 May 2024 at 20:01


Oh that's nice. Lovely dry tasty IPA. A proper beer

Tried from Can on 06 Nov 2023 at 21:13


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

440ml can. Slightly hazy golden, white head. Aroma of pale malts, pine, resin, citrus. Taste is piney, resinous, pale malts, citrus, grapefruit, rinds, pith, solid bitterness. Great westie, you know it was gonna be good when even The Kernel got in on a collab.

Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2023 at 20:12


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

19th August 2023
Can. Almost clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Palate is light, mildly dry and has reasonable fine minerally carbonation. Clean light pale malts bring modest sweetness. Hops deliver crisp pine into tangerine and orange with a touch of grapefruit, some peel elements to all of those citrus fruits. Finishes mildly dry and crispy and leaves a mild citric peel bitter linger. Clean and drinkalble without ever being anything really exciting.

Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2023 at 15:11


8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5

Can at home in Barbados in the hammock, 12th August 2023. Pours almost clear golden. Aroma is citrus, pith, grapefruit. Taste is resinous pine, grapefruit, pleasingly bitter, pith and rind, great combo of these brewers

Tried from Can on 12 Aug 2023 at 18:54


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can. Beer Central Sheffield. Mostly clear gold. Sticky white swede. Wow this is bitter. Stanky hops. Bit sweaty. Pineapple rind. Drinks well easy. Lovely, as you might expect.

Tried from Can on 02 Aug 2023 at 19:34


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Tried on 29 Jul 2023 at 11:06


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tried on 29 Jul 2023 at 11:06