Retro Rye IPA
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Rye Regular|
Score
6.18
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Mostly clear, but slightly hazy golden and peach coloured body with a nice one centimetre tall off-white head on top. Aroma of rye and deep grainy malts with some earthiness and a robust herbal kick towards the end, with some alpha acids and a light sweetness, too, in the nose. Medium-bodied; Crisp grassy and herbal notes show the strong rye maltiness with a pungent bitter quality and a light earthiness, with some alcohol noticeable towards the end and a lot of pungency from the hops here, that really shows up at the finish. Aftertaste is dry, herbal, floral and showing an assertive and old-school bitterness with a pretty well-balanced sweetness and some ever so slight citrus qualities. Overall, showing as a pretty nice old-school IPA with the obvious rye notes, but balanced and strong - enjoyable and great for rye lovers! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, purchased from Giant Eagle (grocery) in Morgantown, West Virginia on 27-May-2023 for US$1,99 (part of a mixed six pack), packaged on 13-December-2021 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 05-June-2023.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2024
at 05:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle from State Line, 9/3/22. Hazy orange, floaties, medium off-white head, average retention. Aroma of rye, mango. Taste is mango, rye, tangerine, pale malt. Juicy, mild bitterness. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2022
at 23:24
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 3
Clear pale yellow from a bottle with a big foamy head. Slight nose of IPA perfume. Taste is typical lighter IPA. Very little carbonation, somewhat mouth coating but not like the mouth-coating of most IPA. Almost seems to come across as a higher hopped pale ale. Fairly difficult and rude. Like most IPA, what else can be said about a style of which all quadrillion taste about the same? There, you have it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2022
at 00:09
4/10
Pours a cloudy amber color, fluffy white head. Aroma of almost imperceptible grain. Taste has very plain grain notes. Palate has much of the same. Incredibly plain.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2022
at 02:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Shaw's Dark gold in color with a decent sized fluffy white head that recedes. Spicy earthy citrus and a bit of bready maltiness to back it up. Not Bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2021
at 19:42