Sailfish Brewing Company Sunrise City IPA

Sunrise City IPA

 

Sailfish Brewing Company in Fort Pierce, Florida, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular
Score
6.93
ABV: 7.7% IBU: - Ticks: 14
With over 3 lbs of Mosaic & Amarillo hops per barrel, your experience with this beer starts well before it even gets close to your nose. Get ready for a wallop of huge citrus, melon, and pine aromas. The complex grain bill acts as a perfect soft backdrop for the big American hops.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hazy orange-gold with a pretty big fluffy head, pitted nice and leaves some lacing. Pretty good hop profile, citrus, resin. Also some caramel in the nose too, so that's interesting, its not just a hop bomb. Flavor pretty similar, leans more toward resin flavors, somewhat herbaceous, somewhat sweaty, maybe some lemon. Malt flavors tend worty, bready. Medium bitterness. Pretty balanced overall presentation. I guess its OK but I just think the hop flavor profile and weird tasting malt detract just a tad. It has potential. It's not a west coast IPA I wouldn't think though (in contrast with the commercial description here). It drinks a lot like the old east coast IPAs with that malt presence.

Tried on 06 Aug 2023 at 19:23


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Decent, hitting all the grapefruit-pine-caramel prerequisites, with a minor funky vegetal undertone and a modest bitter streak on the back end. Not bad.

Tried on 27 Jul 2023 at 23:56


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12oz can at Hullabaloo. Poured a slightly hazy orange with a medium sized head. Aroma was bitter hops, light citrus and tropical fruits. Flavor was light resin, light bitterness. Pleasant juicy notes.

Tried from Can on 24 Feb 2023 at 22:45


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16 ounce can. Hazy, orange gold pour. Large, dense, foamy beige head. Sweet, earthy, citrus aroma. Notes of orange and apricot. Upfront, flavor is bittersweet citrus, stone fruit and peach. Sweet and sticky. Increasingly bitter toward finish. Hints of lemon pith and black pepper.

Tried from Can on 13 Aug 2022 at 01:10


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

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Tried from Can on 07 Jan 2021 at 22:35


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Some tangerine, and a little grapefruit. Pours orange with good head and lacing. Bitter finish, decent IPA. Nothing special, but enjoyable enough.

Tried on 24 Aug 2020 at 20:06


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Crisp and impeccably clear amber and copper colourede body with a very small, single centimetre thin, just off-white head noticeable. Aroma of light herbal and grassy hop notes with some more pungent malt scents and a dash of alcohol and nuttiness on the finish. Light-bodied; Strong nutty and herbal hop notes dominate with more of an English or European flavour than a traditional American IPA with some pungent and bitter hop flavours and a dash of more assertive biscuity malts with a strong yeast and caramelised sugar backbone which almost feels more of an EPA than an IPA. Aftertaste shows a lot of bready notes with a dash of light spice and more of a pungent herbal and floral bite from the hops, but definitely showing the yeast flavours and deeper malt/alcohol flavours that would be typical for the style. Overall, an about average IPA that shows more of an English or European bite than anything even from the East Coast (notably where the brewery is) than any other style of an IPA. Nice to try, but not worth trying to find. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Knightly Spirits in Orlando (Orange Blossom Trail), Florida on 19-April-2019 for US$2,37 sampled at home in Washington after finishing the USMC 2019 Marathon a few blocks from my house here in Washington on 27-October-2019.

Tried from Can on 29 Oct 2019 at 07:14


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draft pour pint at The Wheelhouse, St. Pete. Golden orange pour, tons of sticky foam head and lacing. Distinct grapefruit going on with this IPA. Its bitter, and also a bit sweet. Bitter grapefruit peel late linger. Strong malty backbone. Interesting and quite enjoyable.

Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2019 at 19:26


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Im Restaurant in Orlando. Fast klar, orange, kein Schaum. Aroma: Frucht, Zitrone, Grapefruit, Kiefer. Geschmack: Kiefer, Zitrone, Ananas. etwas bitter.

Tried on 05 May 2019 at 18:37


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can Mostly clear orange/amber with a small white head. Sweet aroma of candied pineapple and citrus. The flavor is light citrus bitterness. Nothing spectacular, but drinkable.

Tried from Can on 19 Feb 2019 at 22:37