The Defender (2015)
Brooklyn Brewery in Brooklyn, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.98
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Who is this masked hero? The Defender emerged in an era when gloomy walls and bland beer held our city in a stranglehold. Slowly, murals began to brighten the landscape and flavorful beer flooded the taps. Today the city is alive with fiery art and delicious beer. The Defender maintains constant vigilance to battle back the blandness lurking around the edges. Ours is a world of light, fury, and song. This is it’s Defender!
Brooklyn Defender IPA was forged in collaboration with our sidekicks at New York Comic Con as the official beer of the convention.
Malts: Pilsner, Crisp, Carared, Crystal
Hops: Pilgrim, Willamette, Cascade, Mosaic, Amarillo
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VastActiv (16429) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at Olutexpo 2016, Helsinki. Colour is clear orange with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, hops, some minerals and malts. Pretty drinkable.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle pours with a crystal clear copper body that supports a tan head of foam. The first few moments after cracking the cap I swear it smelled like bubble gum. Upon further inspection I get sort of sweet sort of biscuit to lightly roasted malts playing against a light spiced apple bubble gum kind of berry gummy bear sensation. Wow! I’m not sure this is coming across right as it doesn’t smell too bad but these words make it seem so. The taste delivers some bitter spicy earthy hops that begins to develop a light earthy dark tea flavor to midway. Just below the hops are lightly sweet malts and a sense of biscuit malts. It took a while to feel this beer out but it is growing on me as the hops are modestly bitter but the blend is starting to make more sense. Spicy, earthy, a bit floral, a tad tea like and maybe a sliver of mint. Not bad.
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
At SBWF 2016. A bit hazy copper with a medium head. Aroma of caramel, hops, malt and apricot. Similar taste. The body was medium as was the bitterness. An ok one.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at MacGregors. Dark amber color with orange tints and a low head. Nose of orange and pine, grapefruit. Solid malt with some caramel. Tasty but simple.
superspak (10160) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 8/2016. Pours slightly hazy reddish orange/copper color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, apricot, peach, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/pine/earthy hops and moderate dark/bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, apricot, peach, lemon zest, orange peel, pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine, herbal, spicy, and citrus rind bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, apricot, peach, lemon/orange rind, pepper, pine, caramel, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine/earthy hops and moderate dark/bready malt flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness; leading to some light lingering hop astringency, but not overwhelming. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately sticky/resinous, and creamy/bready balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good English IPA. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine/earthy hops and moderate dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
patrick767 (7169) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
bottle - Pours dark amber with a one finger head. It smells of resinous and citrus hops and caramel malt. The flavor is big on both the malt and the hops with caramel and resin most prominent, nice fruity characteristics, and a long, bitter finish. It’s medium bodied and delicious. Well done.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
I guess I’m supposed to put this here since I don’t see (2016), but then again I didn’t see a date on the bottle.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a flimsy moderately burnt orange/brown color. Finger’s worth of white foamy head.
The smell takes in some citrus rind to balance with a tight amount of caramel malts.
The flavor is mainly sweet through the combination of the malts and the citrus hops. Slight resin tries to make an effort in the flavor, but definitely the malts dryly hit the aftertaste and in the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light.
Overall, mainly a pretty good AIPA, well balanced and an old school sort of one. I don’t mind it for me.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Light citrus on an otherwise heavy malt IPA. Easy drinking and well bodied. Bitter finish. Bottle.
Oakes (33493) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bright amber, big head. Rich hop nose, bales and kumquats and cantaloupes. Bitter, a fair bit of chewy malt, and a pretty strong hop profile. A fair bit of chewy crystal malt but more dominant on the hop side of life. Lingering bittersweet finish.
tfontana (7277) reviewed The Defender (2015) from Brooklyn Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour into shaker from Greg & Jane’s Beer and Wine. Aroma is lots of fruit and floral notes, resin and malt base in background. Appearance is clear light reddish-brown with substantial sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with decent retention and mild lacing. Taste is mix of sweet fruit and mild bitter resin (sweet dominant) with bready malt backbone. Palate is medium bodied with thick texture, average to lively carbonation, dry mix of sweet fruit and bitter finish. Overall, as advertised with some decent complexity and a nice mix of sweet and bitter that doesn’t go over the bitter edge for me.