German Style IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.86
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This Teutonic take on the traditional IPA features spicy German grown hops and an expressive Kolsch yeast. The result is a golden beer with a moderate bitterness and an intensely fruity aroma reminiscent of raspberry and lemon peel. Prost!
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
1,100th rating! 100th IPA rating (new style definitions)! Pours an amber from a bottle, aroma is spicy noble hops. Flavor starts off like it’s going to be a natural ginger ale or something soda-y like that, but it turns into more of a dry, Euro-style IPA after that. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2017
at 20:37
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving scant sheets. Sweet caramel and tropical fruit aromas. Dry with sweet caramel and hay upfront turning to earthy hops in the lasting finish.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Mar 2017
at 22:11
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown squat bottle. Hazy pale golden with small white head. Aroma is light herbal hoppy, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is pilsner malt and noble hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2017
at 18:33
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Not really very IPA-like. This tastes much more like a typical German lager. Pours a very light golden yellow, with almost no head. Aroma and flavor are very grassy. Not that great.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2017
at 10:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Orange caramel malt and grass/orange peel aroma. Golden yellow with large white head. Moderately sweet orange/grapefruit caramel malt and moderately bitter lemon peel/grass flavor. Nice body. Earthy IPA - very pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2017
at 21:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy gold with a thick white head. Aroma of bread dough. Flavors of bread and citrus. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2017
at 12:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hi black from Kroger. Golden. Flavor is very grassy, slightly floral. Bland. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
on 25 Feb 2017
at 15:56
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a very slightly hazy dark golden color with an enormous foamy orange-white head that left good lacing. The aroma was musty with egg white, citrus and grass. The flavor was dryish with egg white, citrus and grass. Medium length finish. Medium body. Meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2017
at 20:59
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
I freakin love this beer - lately it seems SN has been nailing everything Germanic, thinking of those o-fests. Anyway, this features a nice noble hop nose and flavoring, somewhat catty and sulfurous. Flavor is a lightish bready malt, very clean, provides a nice solid backbone without being thin but still lets the hops shine. Excellent balance and drinkability. Hazy golden color, small head but dense creamy foam.
Tried
on 20 Feb 2017
at 20:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Medium bodied, unique IPA. Certainly captures a more European feel, more malt depth, new school German hops. Mellow raspberry tones as the description states. Pretty solid beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2017
at 20:19