Twenty Pounder
Driftwood Brewery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.51
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An agent of delivery for hops! As always, we believe in balance, so the double-shwack of hops is supported by a dense-but-clean malt base. Huge fruit in the form of mango, passionfruit, guava, citrus and pine makes this a hop head’s delight.
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Full, rich, deep, golden. One of my all-time favs since it's inception. Highest regards & praise to Driftwood that Twenty Pounder has been so rock solid all these years!
Tried
from Can
from
Keg n Cork Liquor Company
on 22 Oct 2025
at 19:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
16oz can pours a clear gold with some white head. Nose has honey, pine, soap, grist. Flavor is piney, grassy, honey. Full bodied, sticky finish.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2024
at 14:34
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Great mix of pine and caramel, grapefruit. Lemon. Pretty potent, but well balanced at the same time. Golden pour with ok head. Bitter end. Subtle balance and well done. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2024
at 22:27
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473mL can. Pours clear pale gold with white head. Aroma has tons of bright pine, bitter resin, sweet malts. Flavour has strong resinous pine with a long bitter finish. Malt backbone is present, but profile is dominated by the hops. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2024
at 04:32
7/10
Good combo of malt and hop. Strong bitter finish.
Tried
on 15 May 2022
at 19:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
473ml can. Pours a clear amber-gold with a medium, foamy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves soapy curtains of lace. Sweet fruity aroma of bready caramel malt, orange, mango, peach and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of bready caramel malt, orange, grapefruit rind, peach, mango, apricot and pine resin in a dry, bitter finish. Full body with an oily texture and average carbonation. ABV is well hidden. Tasty and almost juicy.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Feb 2022
at 06:29
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Kump. Many thanks! Hazy amber colour, white foam. Sweet nose of passion fruit, papaya and citrus. Bitter hoppy. Very nice Dipa.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2016
at 06:34
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Driftwood Twenty Pounder Double IPA (by Driftwood Brewery (Canada)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
5/V/16 - 650ml bottle @ home - BB: n/a (2016-507) Thanks to JefVerstraete for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, big creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit cheesy, dank, resinous. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very hoppy, fruity touch, very resinous, malty. Aftertaste: tropical fruits, pineapple, some passion fruit, very bitter resinous finish.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
5/V/16 - 650ml bottle @ home - BB: n/a (2016-507) Thanks to JefVerstraete for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, big creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit cheesy, dank, resinous. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very hoppy, fruity touch, very resinous, malty. Aftertaste: tropical fruits, pineapple, some passion fruit, very bitter resinous finish.
Tried
from Can
on 05 May 2016
at 15:15
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle bought at Bottle Jockey. Pours almost clear golden with a white head. Intense aroma is piney and tropical fruits. Taste is sligtly sweet, piney and tropical fruit bitterness. Very bitter piney, resin aftertaste. Good balanced, but a little bit boozy. Good stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2016
at 23:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, Legacy. Amber, with a bubbly head. Very floral, pears, mangoes and melons. Lean, fruity, with lots of hops, and a nice kiss of sweet pale malt. Quite bright. Less chewy than Fat Tug - go figure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2015
at 10:36