Beer Camp: Golden IPA
(has 1 batch)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Wheat / White Series Out of Production|
Score
6.97
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Citrus-heavy hops in a dry, yet assertive IPA... At Beer Camp, no beer style is off limits, so we jumped at the idea of doing a Golden IPA using wheat malt for a light, dry body and bold American and experimental hops for intense citrus flavor. The perfect spring seasonal, we invite you to enjoy this year’s Beer Camp encore.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours lightly hazy golden, large Diddy white head, dissipates slowly, nice lacing. Aroma is grassy, floral, a hint vegetal, lemongrass, wheat. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter. Light body, acidic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2017
at 15:31
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a heavily overcarbonated bright yellow gold color with an enormous fluffy yellow-white head that lingered forever and left decent lacing. The aroma was citric acid, orange, lemon, dry and chalky. The flavor was tangy and tart with pepper, bread dough, lemon and cactus. Medium length finish. Medium body. Meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2017
at 18:04
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Mermaid - Clapton. Pours clear gold with a lasting, creamy white head. Mellow citrus peel in the nose, traces of orange peel, lemon, dry pale malts. Light to medium sweet flavour with more understated citrus fruits, subtle pale bread character, low bitterness, nips of pine needles, hay. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, some floral and piney hops, more dry pale bread, a little peach, tangerine find. Enjoyable.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2017
at 14:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz. bottle, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out light piney hops and dry biscuity malt. Flavour is nice and piney in the hop department, with a dry biscuity malt backbone. Standard stuff but well-made. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2017
at 02:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Orange, grapefruit, biscuit malt, and grapefruit peel aroma. Slightly hazy yellow with large white head. Mildly sweet citrus biscuit malt and lightly bitter grapefruit peel flavor. Good body. No off flavors but pretty boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2017
at 18:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pretty good hybrid IPA, allowing the wheat malt to shine through the dry citric hop front. The haystack and grass provide a nice semisweet undercurrent, yet the grapefruit-lemon hoppiness balances out all these "golden" aspirations. Finishes a bit weak; needs a firmer bitterness to offset the pronounced malt aftertaste, yet all in all it’s another solid Sierra Nevada IPA. Too bad it’s no looker.
Tried
on 20 Feb 2017
at 17:49