Backstage IPA
Signature Brew in Walthamstow, Greater London, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.54
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Having won SIBA South East's gold award for best packaged IPA in 2018, Backstage is an ambitious and noteworthy IPA that delivers on its Access All Areas promise as it unlocks a myriad of tropical flavours including passion fruit, tangerines and berries. Throw in an encore of pine and crisp citric notes and you’ve got yourself a party. Stack them high and drink them cold.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours with a good healthy level of white foam and clear lighter gold body, the aroma is sweet fresh hops in all the right places. Flavour is nice sweet wet hops with pineapple and peach notes. Refreshing mouthfeel, with just a proper hint of oiliness. Well done, straight ahead but no complaints.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2020
at 05:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at the Rusty Bucket, Eltham. Gold pour with a white head. Spicy, hoppy nose. Dry hop and spice taste. Lots of bitter hop in the finish.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2019
at 22:06
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 04 Feb 2019
at 19:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried at the Hop and Barley, Lincoln. Orange to amber colour with a white head. Aroma citrus orange with pith and slight grass. Taste light bitter to mid bitter finish. Medium to full body.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2018
at 14:52
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask half-pint in The Strait and Narrow, Lincoln on 24th Nov 2017. Amber/orange body, wispy white head. Citrus notes in both the nose and taste, OK, but no different to plenty of other citrus leaning beers on the market currently.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Nov 2017
at 05:32
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
12oz can pours a hazy dark orange with some clumpy, white head. Nose comes out quite pithy, dried orange peel, malt, pine, paper. Flavor is heavy with honey and dried orange peel, a little sweet tea, some paper. Finishes sticky and sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2017
at 12:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ 32th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2015, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England. [ As Signature Brew Backstage IPA ].Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, open and frothy, good to fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, caramel, moderate to light light heavy hoppy, orange, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, sweet fruit, hoppy, orange, dried fruit, hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151203] 6-3-7-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 07 May 2017
at 10:30
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can, shared @ home with Casear. Cloudy orange color. Big off white head. Aroma’s: citrus, tropical fruit with a nice malty backbone. Retronasal it’s sourish, bitterish, malty. Flavor is moderate bitter with some malt and light fruity sourness. Medium bodied. Finish is somewhat dry, rather bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Sep 2016
at 07:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Sourced Market St Pancras, small sample. Hazy dark golden color, medium frothy head. Aroma of tropical fruit, slight cookie and toffee, slight earthy or herbal note. Soft bitterness in taste, bit sweet cookie and caramel. Quite powerful for 5.6%. Pretty good.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Sep 2016
at 03:46
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a huge yellowish head. The aroma has notes of straw and hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, straw, and a bit of hops, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2016
at 11:37