The Defender (2015)
Brooklyn Brewery in New York City, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.99
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THE DEFENDER is constantly vigilant, standing guard over all those who dare to drink great beer. This bright, juicy, West Coast-style IPA takes on a reddish twist from a dash of roasted malt. Bold, fruity hop bitterness and an intensely resinous nose lead the way into a dry finish that blazes the trail for your next sip.
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
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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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
$2.10 Bottle. Wine Warehouse. Pours reddish amber with a nice beige head. Heavy pine and citrus nose. Taste is unsweetened iced tea, pine, grapefruit peel. Dry and yummy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2016
at 17:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz. bottle purchased at Spruce Creek Provisions. Clear Amber / orange color with light legs of lacing. Aroma is nice citrus orange marmalade and mild lasting pine.
Flavor is orange marmalade upfront with a Pilsner malt center. The finish is a mild myriad of floral, pine and grassy hints. Carbonation is lively and turn the palate dry. Body is in the medium range. Overall a pretty decent hop profile, perhaps a tad malty but pretty good balance.
Flavor is orange marmalade upfront with a Pilsner malt center. The finish is a mild myriad of floral, pine and grassy hints. Carbonation is lively and turn the palate dry. Body is in the medium range. Overall a pretty decent hop profile, perhaps a tad malty but pretty good balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2016
at 17:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a coppery orange with a decent head that laces nicely and gives off aromas of tropical fruits and grain dust. The nose is a bit subdued... kind of juicy, but not strong. Flavor is much more interesting. A blast of mango and passion fruit with some pine/pineapple and a juicy orange/honey sweetness. Very nice stuff, but could be a little more directional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2016
at 20:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
This beer pours a clear copper color with a medium off-white head that dissipates steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of herbal hops, grapefruit and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a citrusy hops aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2015
at 10:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle. Copper colored with a small bubbly beige head. Fragrant piney and citrus hop nose. Upfront flavor is juicy citrus hops and toasted caramel malt. Middle becomes more malty with nutty, buttery notes. Finish has grapefruit and resiny hops, but not overly bitter. Nice balance and easily drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2015
at 21:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Mondo brewery taproom. Pours clear, deep gold with a creamy white head. Hearty piney hops in the nose, pale malts, hints of honey and caramel, ripe orange. Medium sweet flavor with floral hops, perfume, lightly toasted malts, mild piney bitterness. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Lightly resinous in the finish, some boozy warmth, earth, flowers. Not bad overall.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Nov 2015
at 11:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A hazed amber ipa with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, beautiful caramel malt with loads of citrusy resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, very nice. In mouth, crisp caramel malt with loads of citrusy floral hops, grapefruit pulp, clover field, very nice. On tap at Beer Authority NYC.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2015
at 21:34
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Michael Mina, Las Vegas, 12th November 15. Pours reddish, aroma is pleasant, taste is hoppy, slight soap, nice roasty malt back bone, good
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Nov 2015
at 13:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft @ Barcade, Brooklyn. Pours a clear reddish pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy piney aroma. Fruity malty piney hoppy citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty piney grapefruit hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Nov 2015
at 06:46
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught. Clear amber color with small frothy beige head, faint caramel aroma, medium carbonation, lightly bitter malt taste, long bitter finish. Very nice and balanced.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2015
at 15:18