Wingman Session IPA
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.52
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The eagle has landed. When you’re looking to let the good times roll, Wingman has your back. A maverick of a Session IPA, this is a smooth ride of mellow tropical fruits, piney notes and a sharp citrus aroma. Refreshing, infinitely drinkable and with a steady boozing altitude of 4.3%, you’ll want to keep Wingman by your side all night long. Prepare ground control. Refreshment incoming.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at Brewdog Paddington, London. A golden/amber coloured pour with a decent white head on top. Hoppy, malty, citrus aroma and taste. Slightly bitter and crisp, bit of a struggle to finish a pint but It's basically OK.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jan 2025
at 18:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Light bodied with citrussy hop, some orange, light pine, pale malt. Moderate bitter, lightly sweetish. Sessionable but forgettable.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jan 2025
at 13:28
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can from Asda; clear light amber pour with a bubby white head, aroma has straw bales covered in orange juice, taste has hint of pine, light citrus, minimally bitter, weak malts, I could imagine having a session on this, crisp and inoffensive.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jan 2025
at 12:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Typical 'new style' BrewDog, a generic SIPA which does not even disclose the hop varieties used - and widely available, as my sample comes from an Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren, Flanders. Thick and moussey, foamy, egg-white, membrane-lacing, dense, stable head on a crystal clear 'metallic' yellow-golden robe with one thin string of visible sparkling in the middle. Aroma of straw, dry old cardboard (so clearly too old at this point), very old crackers, dry 'herbes de Provençe', old dried grapefruit peel, overripe onion, old dusty white pepper, bread crust, hints of industrial pancakes, soap, damp earth and rubber. Crisp, clean onset, some basic pear- and peach-like fruitiness but restrainedly so, sweetish with a sourish edge enhanced by sharp, minerally, stingy carbonation; smooth body, medium full with generic pale malty middle, slick, cereally and sweetish. From the middle onwards things get drier and hoppier, with a leafy, grassy, bit wormwoody bittering, lasting for quite a while without drying everything; an aromatic touch of dried grapefruit peel and (more so) onion is added retronasally, but the luscious 'tropical' and 'piney' notes the brewery describes are all but absent - or, if they were ever present at all, must have faded by now. Ends dry and bitter but in a mild, gentle kind of way, while the malts, already feeble from the start, ingloriously fade away. A generic session IPA for the masses, filtered and cleaned to a macro brewery kind of level - this is apparently what BrewDog, which once rocked the sleepy European beer scene, has become in all those years...
Tried
on 18 Jan 2025
at 00:54
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml can from Love Wine in Jersey. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, light fruits, grass & grain. Moderate body. Light bitter finish. Passably enjoyable
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jan 2025
at 21:48
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Tesco. Light clear gold with small white top. Notes of pine, pithy citrus and light tropical. Quite crisp and sweet but with reasonable bitterness. Good session beer.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:08
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml can. Pours slightly hazy light gold with a medium head. Aroma is sherbet lemon and a little papaya. Taste has sherbet lemon, papaya, helly and a touch of grass.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jan 2025
at 18:00
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:14
5.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2024
at 11:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pale golden with a white head - Fruity citrus hop aroma - Malt body with a fruity and citrus hop flavour with some bitterness - Hop flavours goes into the finish - This was nice
Tried
on 06 Nov 2024
at 21:26