IPA
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.94
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New look, same fresh taste. One of the all-time highest rated IPAs on RateBeer, AleSmith IPA is a west coast-style India pale ale icon. Bursting with massive hop aromas of grapefruit, pine, and tropical fruits from huge additions of Columbus and Citra, this classic IPA is perfectly balanced by a healthy malt backbone and smooth, bitter finish.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz can. Pours a hazy amber with full head. Aromas of candied tropical fruit, spicy mangoes, pithy grapefruit, and sweet doughty malts. Flavors of pine, sharp bitter pineapple, dry resin, and biscuity malts. Expecting more from the nose. (And Alesmith in general.) This is not a 100 RB. I think the name is getting the ratings...
Tried
from Can
on 07 Oct 2017
at 21:04
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy amber,beige head.Fruity piney hop nose and palate with musty notes.Lots of soft malt in back. Big, long bitter finish. Complex & well balanced
Tried
on 30 Sep 2017
at 23:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
09-09-17 // taster, draft. At Beavertown Extravaganza 2017, London. Awesome IPA but at the Festival in comparison to all the awesome beers it falls down. Still a great beer with loads of citric, tangerine hop bitterness and some good fruitness. --- Beer merged from original tick of IPA on 12 Sep 2017 at 15:46 - Score: 7. Original review text: Beavertown Extravaganza 2017!
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Sep 2017
at 15:46
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Fairly amazing IPA, a killer mix of citrus-pine hop notes and a rich, grainy malt base. Starts with a swipe of lemon-orange hoppiness coupled to a thick, semisweet caramel backbone, then grows resinous and tropical with waves of pine and pineapple flowing over an earthy, bitter finish. Classic West Coast IPA nose, piney and mildly citric with an underlying malt sweetness. Pour is gorgeous, coming out of the can a clear gold with an ample white head and layer upon layer of lace. Creamy texture stays just perky enough to keep the hefty IBUs from lingering too long on the palate. Absolutely delicious beer.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Aug 2017
at 15:07
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Aroma humle, sitrus, Utseende mørk gylden med kremet offwhite skum. Smak sitrus, humle, malt. Endelig en IPA med bitterhet, medium fylde god fruktighet. Boks på Agenturet 35,5cl 7,25% tappet 100516 ---
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Aug 2017
at 17:33
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
355ml bottle. Pours a hazy orange with a medium, creamy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves curtains of lace. Sweet fruity aroma of caramel malt, grapefruit, tangerine, peach and pine. Fresh, sweet fruity flavour of caramel malt, grapefruit, tangerine, peach, tropical fruit and grass with a dry, bitter, pine resin finish. Medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. A world class IPA. It’s Pretty Awesome indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2017
at 23:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 fl oz can. Pours slightly hazy orange gold. Pine, dank, little citrus, some toffee. Huge bitterness. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jun 2017
at 07:25
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 3
Vom Fass im Muted Horn Berlin 2017-04 getrunken. Hmm ein typisches IPA ohne viele Frucht am Gaumen eben. Nicht schlecht aber auch nicht was Besonderes.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2017
at 08:35
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(bottle) clear, very bright honey amber colour with a tall white had; intense aroma of tropical fruit; creamy palate; balanced flavour with a long, medium bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2017
at 17:36
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Clear amber with little white head. Aroma is lychee, grapefruit, orange, mandarin, cake dough, resin, very fruity fine and fresh. Heavy bitterness in the taste. Smooth and very drinkable as everything else from Alesmith. Oily on the tongue. Long rather bitter finish. A bit unbalanced for Alesmith standards actually. Good.
Tried
on 21 May 2017
at 15:22