Vaguely Melancholy
Nost Brewing Project in Hampton, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.92
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West Coast India Pale Ale
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7/10
Canned from total wine. Ultra fluffy head, gold amber pour. Some tropical notes, orange, grapefruit - i njoyed
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 02:11
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Very clear golden coloured body with a nice, very thick and microfoamed, six to seven centimetre tall off-white head that caps the crystal clear body nicely. Aroma of pretty nice, relatively dry and crisp grassy and perfumey hop notes with some light candy-like sweetness in the nose and some soft malts noticeable, too. Light-bodied; Relatively strong and funky biscuity, very grainy and off-putting malt notes show at first with a lot of pungency and overshadowing the softer and grassy, herbal hoppiness here. Aftertaste is very malt-forward as well, with a little hops here and some subdued alpha acid bitterness, but the grainy and more pervasive bitterness from the malts shows much stronger and there is no other fruit or sweetness to balance out the malts. Overall, not really what I was expecting - not a West Coast IPA at all and despite a nice smell, the malts are way too strong with no real complexity. Nice to try, I suppose, locally-ish, but not worth buying if you have any other options at all. I'm dissapointed with this one! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from The Sperryville Corner Store in Sperryville, Virginia on 18-June-2022 for US$4,49 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 26-June-2022.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2023
at 16:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Lime and tangerine. Golden pour with decent head. Light bitter finish with some tang. Medium body. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2023
at 20:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can in the garden, 24th June 23. Pours clear caramel colour. Aroma is Floral, caramel, resin. Taste is malty, light bitter, floral, very pleasant
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jun 2023
at 15:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Oat, lemongrass, tea nose. Cloudy amber, thick sticky head. Lemongrass, orange peel, pencil shavings. Medium body, easy carbonation.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2022
at 11:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
$4.29 pint can, TWF. Clear gold with a large off-white head. Sure looks WC. Nose is less WC and more NE: pineapple, tropical fruit. Flavor is melon, light pine, grasses, green leaf, caramel. Blended style I guess. I wouldn't straight up call this WC.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jun 2022
at 22:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
On draft at Trio in Kitty Hawk. pours a hazy copper with an off white head. Aromas of apricot and pineapple. Flavors are bitter citrus and grass.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2022
at 22:17
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 13 Feb 2022
at 20:50