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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7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Earthy orange malt and pine/grapefruit peel aroma. Hazy golden yellow with large white head. Sweet earthy orange malt and moderately bitter grapefruit peel/pine flavor. Nice body. Don’t know how fresh this was - probably not very, but still very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2015
at 21:12
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle (from beergium). Pours amber with light beige head. The head stays. Aroma is sweet, fruits, peach, citrus, mandarins. Flavor is sweet and bitter, citrus, pine, caramel. Finish is pine bitter. Alcohol is well covered. Overall: great brew. --- Beer merged from original tick of IPA on 03 Aug 2017 at 16:12 - Score: 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2015
at 11:46
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle, courtesy of SinH4. It’s kinda hard to believe that this is "just" an IPA and not something stronger. Very fruity, some pine, and full of aroma. A sweetness just on the right spot to make it well-drinkable, and a nice bitter palate to round it all off in a smooth done. Well done, Alesmith, well done!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2015
at 12:34
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle kindly donated by Santa SlackerMads. Shared with my wife and sister-in-law. orange golden color with huge white head. Grapefruit, zest, resin, caramel in aroma. Nice citrus hoppy taste with pines, resin, grapefruits, caramel. Solid malty backbone. Warming alcohol. Long hoppy bitter finish. Very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2015
at 15:14
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Strong aroma of tropical fruits, grapefruit, tangerine, and pineapple. Clear amber, thick sticky yellow head. Flavor is mainly floral with lillies in the forefront, grapefruit and honey are also present. Grapefruit finish. Medium body, soft carbonation, smooth. Extremely well rounded.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2015
at 21:08
9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Pours clear amber, almost golden. Nice foam, beautiful lacings. Aroma is fresh, bit of fruits, bit of really fragrant and fresh resins. Perfectly balanced. Tastes clean, not overly sweet although fruitiness is there, resins strong but not overpowering. Just perfect. Lingering resins, pine needles, pleasant bitterness. Just right, IPA I would drink and drink and drink.
Tried
on 14 Aug 2015
at 10:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Caña en el Lupulo en 15..04..2016. (r2203). Ipa con intensos herbaceos frescos y ligeros afrutados. Bastante bastante buena. No cambia. Para repetir sin duda. Botella 65 cl en el Lupulo mayo 2013. (r2063) sin lote ni fcpref. Ipa tremenda con cuerpo de 7.2 vol con sabores y aromas afrutados y amargo final duradero. Bastante buena.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2015
at 12:10