Refuge Brewery Grapefruit IPA

Grapefruit IPA

 

Refuge Brewery in Temecula, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular Out of Production
Score
6.54
ABV: 7.7% IBU: 77 Ticks: 15
We love IPAs just as much as anyone, and we especially love dank, citrus-packed hop bombs. We’ve brewed a lot of them in the past few years, but we were always left wanting a bigger citrus punch. So, one summer day, we took a page out of the recipe book of our flagship beer Blood Orange Wit, and decided to add fresh citrus to the brew. We wrangled up the brew crew once again and took a trip to our local Temecula citrus farms to pick some grapefruit. The result is what we have here; a bitter, hoppy IPA infused with real grapefruit juice, fresh squeezed by yours truly!
 

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6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2016, [ Great British Beer Festival 2016 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Refuge Grapefruit IPA ].Clear light to medium orange yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, orange - citrus, zest, sweet tropical fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, tangarin, orange, fruity hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20160811] 7-2-7-3-13

Tried from Cask on 05 Dec 2018 at 13:54


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at GBBF'16, day three, 11/08/16. Golden orange with a moderate off white covering. Nose is bitter orange, mango, bread dough, straw. Taste comprises astringent bitter notes, toasted grains, orange peel, lemon. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, drying close. Not great.

Tried from Cask on 24 Sep 2017 at 04:29


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask gravity @ GBBF 2016. Pours a hazy orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty grapefruit hoppy aroma. Fruity malty grassy grapefruit hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty grapefruit hoppy finish.

Tried from Cask on 20 Jul 2017 at 11:31


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and pine aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with earth.

Tried from Can on 17 May 2017 at 10:54


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Pours bright orange, even a bit reddish. Aroma is not really what I expected, feels sort of too usual. Just bready. Taste has loads of grapefruit, not much else. Grapefruit seed bitterness in the finish. Not bad but also not among the best grapefruit IPA’s I have had.

Tried on 11 Dec 2016 at 07:51


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Golden amber color. Big grapefruit mouth but not that balanced. White grapefruit everywhere. Ok.

Tried on 10 Dec 2016 at 01:41


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

11th August 2016
GBBF Day 3. Cask. Hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light, semi dry and has low carbonation. Smooth pale malts, pretty sweet. Mellow grapefruit and light orange. Light finish. A sweetish IPA lacking condition. Okay.

Tried from Cask on 04 Oct 2016 at 05:05


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On draft at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with an off white head. Fruity nose. Flavors of grapefruit. Bitter finish.

Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2016 at 17:13


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Tried on 06 Sep 2016 at 16:14


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at GBBF 2016. It pours clear amber with a small, bubbly white head. The aroma is sweet, oily, perfumed, brown bread, grapefruit, earth and some meatiness. The taste is smooth, mellow bitterness, pine, oily, sticky, tinned grapefruit, lemonade and alcohol sting with a dry finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and slightly tacky mouth - feel. Aroma is a bit flat. OK I suppose.

Tried from Cask on 11 Aug 2016 at 11:12