Tropical K.O.
Dark Star Brewing Co. in Partridge Green, West Sussex, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.89
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Tropical KO, our homage to fruit punch, is a reinterpretation of all the things we love about big IPA’s. Think breakfast juice at 6.2% abv and start, or finish, your day off the right way.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
440ml can; BB Jun 2020. Poured into a UK pint sleeve at home on 3rd Oct 2019. Slight haze to the amber body, deep white blanket of foam on top. Stone fruits and piney esters in the aroma. The taste is also both piney and fruity with a semi-sweet maltiness in there too. Finish is bitter oranges flavour wise, decent.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2019
at 22:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can from Waitrose, drunk at home. Bold golden brown, clear with a tiny ring of white head. Resinous aroma with apricot jam, fruit loaf, astringent hop. Taste is sweeter than I'd expected. There's some bitter medicinal hop but it's toned down a bit allowing for a good balance. The fruitiness is gone before the finish, leaving a fairly astringent aftertaste. Soft carbonation. Preetty decent.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2019
at 22:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Craft Beer Co - Clerkenwell, 82 Leather Lane, Clerkenwell, Greater London, England EC1N 7TR.[ As Dark Star Tropical K.O. ].Clear medium orange colour with a average, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, caramel, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, fruity hops, tropical fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, sweet malt, pale malt, caramel, tropical fruit, fruity hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170814] 7-3-7-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Aug 2019
at 15:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at home in Hackney - picked up at Waitrose. Pours totally clear honey-gold with a foamy, white head. Fairly sweet, with notes of white grape gummies, tangerine, melon, soft piney bitterness, pale bread. Medium bodied, lightly oily, with fine carbonation. Sweet, fruity finish, more melon and white grape, soft resinous pine. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Aug 2019
at 19:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
[44cl can from Waitrose, Bracknell.] An attractive golden amber pour with a thick cream head; mellow tropical fruit aroma; soft malty body with a peachy taste and some pine resin in the background; and a satisfying finish with sweet malts and nicely balanced resinous hops. Excellent stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Aug 2019
at 18:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at home from Waitrose, I think, 2nd August 19. Pours a caramel colour. Aroma is pithy, some caramel, light tropical. Taste is bitter than I expected, which is a good thing, pithy, some sweetness, it’s not as tropical as the name suggests, but actually not a bad IPA
Tried
from Can
on 03 Aug 2019
at 06:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
440ml can. Pours dark orange with a medium head. Aroma is bitter with caramel and orange. Taste is quite bitter throughout, with caramel, tofffee and orange squash. Some tropical fruit on the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2019
at 18:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can at home. Pale amber colour with a white head. Aroma o tropical fruit. Taste juicy sweet. Medium to full body.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2019
at 18:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On cask at Dark Star Sussex Yard Party. I didn't rate this beer too highly to be honest; highly tropical but in a bit of a squash way.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jun 2019
at 21:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Craft Beer Co - Islington, Islington N1. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty tropical fruit hoppy aroma. Fruity malty tropical hoppy grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty grapefruit hoppy tropical fruit finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Nov 2017
at 01:24