Twenty Pounder
Driftwood Brewery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.55
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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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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle bb 02/15/12, thanks for this blast from the past Todd! Dank pine and earthy hop aroma. Hazy orange amber, low golden head. Fullbodied sweet, initially, berries, low stickiness though with a broad hop front to cut through: Funny tobacco, lemon drops, pine, dry herbal, almost meaty and earthy finish. Leaves with sparkles on the tongue. The powder did not get wet in the last three years.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2015
at 15:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, savoured on July 5 2014; eye: caramel, hazy, tiny ring of mocha head, light lacing; nose: Cointreau, orange, citrusy, basement, light malt; mouth: Cointreau, orange, citrusy, basement, light malt, light astringency, semi-dry finale in Cointreau with presence of malt, medium body, average carbonation, mildly bitter, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille, savourée le 5 juillet 2014; œil : caramel, voilée, petit anneau de mousse moka, légère dentelle; nez : Cointreau, orange, citrique, cave, léger malt; bouche : Cointreau, orange, citrique, cave, léger malt, légère astringence, finale semi-sèche en Cointreau avec présence de malt, corps moyen, carbonatation moyenne, moyennement amère, texture légèrement rugueuse; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2014
at 16:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a deep amber color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma of strong hoppy notes with citrus flavours is pretty nice with some resinous and piney notes also identifiable. Taste is dominated by loads of citrus and piney hoppy flavours with some sweet malt notes that are also discernable. Body is full with great carbonation. Nice hops profile but malt base if just a bit too sweet for my liking in the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2014
at 10:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Grapefruit, tropical fruit and rind. Clearish gold with a rich white head. Grapefruit, sweet malts and nice citrus and tropical fruit. Not nearly as boozy and rich as I though it would be. Quite pleasant and deceptively drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2014
at 16:44
8.5/10
Aroma is super fresh slice of citrus fruit: peaches and pineapple. Very plush fruit flavor, spices on the fringes and sweet throughout
Tried
on 18 May 2014
at 17:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Re-rate: Poured from the tap at Driftwood. Clear gold with small white head. Tropical citrus hops, sweet malt backing, slight booze. May 13, 2014 (8/4/7/3/15=3.7): Poured from 650mL bottle. Clear, orangey yellow with off-white head. Aroma of caramel malt and tropical citrus hops. Taste same, but balance didn’t quite hit home for me. Bit of an alcohol kick, medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 May 2014
at 00:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a clear orange/amber with very light head. Aromas of grapefruit and ripe tropical fruit tending to pineapple with a bit of toasted malts in the background. Bitter orange and pink grapefruit up front, followed by nice smooth malt and toffee flavors. Light bitter finish. Tasty. Seems even better this year.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2013
at 14:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sparkling amber,small beige head.Floral citrusy nose and palate.Light malt mid, big long dry hop finish
Tried
on 19 Sep 2011
at 15:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 oz. bottle, pours a hazy orangey copper with a small white head. Aroma of piney and citrus hops and a bit of caramel. Flavour is robustly hpppy, with loads of resinous hops, with hardly any malt backing to balance - very bitter finish. Unbalanced, but done so well I can hardly fault it. Hophead's paradise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2011
at 11:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle. Decent pour with good head and an average gold-copper clear body. The smell of hops is palpable, possibly one of the smelliest beers I’ve come across. Mostly steeping hops methinks, but the fact that you can smell the hops across the room is a very good thing. The flavour is a tiny hint of malt followed by a hop-bomb aftertaste - sweet hops to start and bitter hops invading your mouth on the finish. I found it well balanced nonetheless, though I’m not a big hop-bomb fan. This is a very good double-IPA - extra points for the fact that the 9% alcohol is virtually nonexistent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2011
at 02:07