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
An og classic. Style definer, this is west coast ipa. But not even on the bitter side, just C hops. Beer temple ams
Tried
on 29 Sep 2024
at 17:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
February 2015: 650 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 7.25%. Golden colour, only slightly hazy. Large white head. Pleasant hoppy aroma, notes of pine, caramel and grapefruit. Lovely and well balanced hoppy flavour, pine needles and grapefruit again, not extreme - just very well made.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Cardinal
on 11 Jan 2024
at 17:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pint can that came from a good haul at an Austin Total Wine. And this beer was perhaps the most pleasant discovery. I have a snifter in place from a previous tasting, it'll work now. The view is a cloudy, off-yellow liquid finished with a steady skim of fully white, fine bubbles. An appreciated nose of pine, grass and citrus, old school obviously. And the taste now, not bad. Citrus leaning towards lemon and grapefruit, cedar, white bread, malt, a lemon drop sweetness and meadow. A good IPA, not my best. Moderately bitter and somewhat dry. Throwback and that is swell by me.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Nov 2022
at 02:31
7/10
Sweet, malty, citrus, fruity, tropical, dry
Tried
from Can
on 08 Nov 2022
at 20:41
8/10
Aroma humle, sitrus, Utseende mørk gylden med kremet offwhite skum. Smak sitrus, humle, malt. Endelig en IPA med bitterhet, medium fylde god fruktighet. Boks smakt Aug -17
Tried
on 29 May 2021
at 12:46
7/10
Clear golden with white head. Sweet malts, some thick rye notes and lots of pine/resin, grapefruit, floral notes, tea leaf bitters. Just medium sweet and moderate bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. Oily feel. Throwback Thursday.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Apr 2021
at 22:43
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Deep copper body with lasting white head. Herb and spice aroma. Hoppy body with a malt spine, evergreen and mango notes. Long hop finish.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2021
at 01:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ Mikkeller Bar, Aarhus. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is pretty malty, orange, pine, dank hops, resin. Taste is alike. Sticky, malty, orange peel, orange, citrussy, pine.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Craftsman Yokohama. Nice. Lots of fruit, citrus, decent maltiness, bit of nice tropical stinkiness, some resin. Nice stuff!
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from FlacoAlto, thanks! Orange blonde color. Grapefruit and melon in the slightly perfumed oily hoppy aroma. Very firm oily grassy hopbitter flavor with grapefruit and pineapple, lingering on in the long aftertaste. Some plastic in the finish. Well balanced ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 16:24