7K IPA
Santa Fe Brewing Company in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.08
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7K IPA is brewed way up in Santa Fe, NM, and is a dry, West Coast-ish style IPA with notes of grapefruit, citrus and tropical flavors. The hop profile combines Simcoe and Mosaic with Eldorado and Amarillo playing backup. On the palate, it starts with a touch of caramel malt sweetness that balances out the hops and finishes with a fruity, slightly resinous hop flavor and clean bitterness. It’s fruity and intense with a clean hop profile and leaner malt base than other IPAs. So if you’re searching for the next great IPA, just look up. Higher. No, higher. There we are.
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8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2018
at 12:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz can pours with a near clear deep gold body that has a copper core and supports a nice light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts, a dash of caramel and then grassy herbal hops and then a bit of citrus and hoppy earthiness. The taste delivers smooth modestly sweet malts getting quickly into bitter grassy hops, floral hops and a nice load of earthy tea hops. To midway a thin citrus hop note joins in to help this into the finish. Nice IPA. I'm a sucker for earthy tea like hops and this delivers.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2017
at 19:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap. Pours clear orange Amber, Medium off white head good lacing. Aroma of grapefruit pine, perfume. Flavor is light plus sweet, light Bitter. Medium body, soft mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Sep 2017
at 16:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz. can. Pours a hazy pale gold with a creamy white head. Aroma of tropical fruit and citrus. Taste is citrus, grapefruit, tropical fruit, pine, resin. Nice stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2017
at 00:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
9th August 2017
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Hazy amber beer, bubbly cream colour head. Palate is light and dry, modest fine carbonation. Light malts bring a touch of caramel and toffee. Dry floralness. Ripe citrus. Some orange peel. Finishes with spicy bitterness. Hoppy but could be brighter.
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Hazy amber beer, bubbly cream colour head. Palate is light and dry, modest fine carbonation. Light malts bring a touch of caramel and toffee. Dry floralness. Ripe citrus. Some orange peel. Finishes with spicy bitterness. Hoppy but could be brighter.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Aug 2017
at 11:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled @ GBBF 2017, Day 2. A hazy dark golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of citrus hops, lime, tropical fruits. Taste of zezt, Citrus, lime, long bitter finish. Nice.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2017
at 19:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask Gravity at GBBF. It pours hazy dark amber - brown with a medium bubbly white head. The aroma is sweet, sticky, juicy, tangy, stewed orange, peach, nectarine, candy, grapefruit and resin. The taste is rich, slick, bitter, resinous, sticky, oily, pithy, zesty, big grapefruit character and warming booze with a drying finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Punchy stuff. Decent grapefruit vibes.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2017
at 12:28