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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7.6

Convair880 (6926) reviewed Destination IPA from Elusive Brewing 2 years ago

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

Keg at Kernel taproom, Bermondsey, London. A golden/straw coloured pour with a medium off white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, grapefruit, malty, orange, pine aroma & taste. Very drinkable IPA, expected a bitter beer but it wasnt, pleasantly surprised.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jul 2023 at 09:51

7.8

Fergus (31329) reviewed Destination IPA from Elusive Brewing 2 years ago

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

Tap at Arch 7 kernel tap. A clear mid gold coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is semi sweet subdued, orange rind, biscuit malts, piney hop, light toffee, sap. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, woody citrus, bark, pine sap, assertive hop bitterness, grassy finish. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, fine carbonation. Light weed in the finish. Good.

Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2023 at 18:46

Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Destination IPA from Elusive Brewing 2 years ago

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

Can at home, from HOTM online, 22/07/23. Clear golden to light amber with an off white cap that retains well. Nose is bitter orange, grass, pine needle, light dank tickle, ripe melon, grapefruit. Taste comprises grapefruit, pine needle, crisp malts, dank spike, spruce tips, melon, orange zest. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close spiked with grassy come ever so slightly resinous hop bitterness. Solid thirst quenching and on point WC IPA.

Tried from Can on 23 Jul 2023 at 13:04

8.4

Scopey (25115) reviewed Destination IPA from Elusive Brewing 2 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can direct from Elusive. It pours lightly hazy golden with a small bubbly white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, biscuity, sponge cake, grapefruit, tangelo, lemon curd, lemon poppyseed cake, pine and spruce. The taste is crisp, firm dryness, decent hit of bitterness which builds and lingers, zesty, tangy, grapefruit, tangerine, pomelo, splash of lemonade, plenty of pine, spruce, peppery spice, biscuit and light sponge cake with a drying, piney finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. What's not to like? Is well put together and ticks all the classic west coast boxes. Chuggable.

Tried from Can on 16 Jul 2023 at 15:03

8.1

Leighton (34941) reviewed Destination IPA from Elusive Brewing 2 years ago

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

Can at home in Hackney - sourced from Elusive online. Pours crystal clear honey-gold with a modest, foamy white head. Light-medium sweet flavour with nice piney bitterness, orange peel, mellow minerality, crisp malts, a little pine oil, grass. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, resinous, some sun-kissed pale malts, more citrus peel. Good stuff.

Tried from Can on 14 Jul 2023 at 22:06