Maple Bay IPA (2020-)
Backcountry Brewing in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.10
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Fresh Hop IPA
This IPA has been brewed with fresh hops from Maple Bay Hop Farm. We used copious amounts of the lovely unique Cascade and Centennial that their farm is known for producing.
This IPA has been brewed with fresh hops from Maple Bay Hop Farm. We used copious amounts of the lovely unique Cascade and Centennial that their farm is known for producing.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Flight pour at St. Augustine's. Pours opaque yellow with white head. Aroma has doughy malts, citrus, and pine. Flavour has doughy malts, citrus, stonefruit, pine, dank oils. Mouthfeel is a bit murky and chalky, but not quite egregious. Pretty nice.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2024
at 23:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2024, on tap at the brewery. Opaque, pale, fruity, light pine, citrus, complex hop character with a sage-like note in the finish. Lowish bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Oct 2024
at 18:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16oz @ 🏡 Appearance: greenish murky blonde with a huge white head. Aroma: dank, weedy, juicy. Taste: along the same lines, a bit astringent and watery. Overall: pretty good.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2023
at 05:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Opaque yellow, stark white head. Big tropical fruit nose. Creamy and tropical, medium sweet with light lasting bitterness. Great lacing
Tried
on 23 Dec 2022
at 02:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
473mL can, pours an opaque peachy golden yellow with a small white head. Nose brings out soft piney hops, doughy malt, a bit of tropical fruits, and chalk. Flavour is unobtrusive, with tropical fruits, some pithiness, earthy hops, fresh dough, and low-medium chalkiness for a hazy. The hop character is pleasant and the malt base is decent. There's definitely some gritty, chalky nonsense as usual, but it's not too egregious. Decent. If you think this is excellent, you've got low standards.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Oct 2022
at 02:20
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Murky blond colour, with large head. The arom ais an explosion of tropical fruits, with hints of piney resins and weed. The mouthfeel is soft and creamy, there is some chalk, and astringency, but the residual sweetness makes it more palatable; the hopping is just exaggerated, it's zesty, tropical, a bit dank, and then growing into some grapefruit pith, so that in the finish it has enough bitterness, without being excessively vegetable.
It's a bit dirty, the Taliban snowflakes will scream "haram, this is chalk galore", but there's so much good hop here, excellent.
Murky blond colour, with large head. The arom ais an explosion of tropical fruits, with hints of piney resins and weed. The mouthfeel is soft and creamy, there is some chalk, and astringency, but the residual sweetness makes it more palatable; the hopping is just exaggerated, it's zesty, tropical, a bit dank, and then growing into some grapefruit pith, so that in the finish it has enough bitterness, without being excessively vegetable.
It's a bit dirty, the Taliban snowflakes will scream "haram, this is chalk galore", but there's so much good hop here, excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Oct 2022
at 07:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Re-rate (2022 release): was told the can is better than tap so... poured from 473mL can. Cloudy pale yellow with small white head. Tropical hops, mild citrus and pine with a hint of weed hops, feint dankness. I do agree the can is better than the tap. Oct 14, 2022 (2022 release): poured from the tap @ Bells & Whistles Fraser. Murky yellow with white head. Nice pine hops with a touch of citrus and tropical hops. Definitely has chalk, but not chalk galore #notatalibansnowflake Oct 07, 2020 (6/3/6/3/13=3.1): Poured from the tap. Hazy gold with white head. Underlying doughy malt with mild tropical hops.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Oct 2020
at 02:26