Trees V1 - West Coast DIPA
Beak Brewery in Lewes, East Sussex, England 🏴
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.28
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While we’ve been happy with our past attempts at West-Coast IPAs, we think it’s fair to say they’ve erred more on the side of No Coast. So, earlier in the year we began researching how we could brew something truly Californian.
The result is TREES V1 – a beer that has probably elicited more excitement in the brewery than any other in the last six months.
Like some of our favourite authentic West Coast beers from the US, it is brewed with a distinctly hard water profile and simple extra pale grist before being layered with multiple whirlpool additions dominated by Centennial and Chinook, resulting in a clean, crisp and bracingly bitter flavour profile with big aromas of pine, grapefruit, marmalade, orange rind and autumn deadwood.
The result is TREES V1 – a beer that has probably elicited more excitement in the brewery than any other in the last six months.
Like some of our favourite authentic West Coast beers from the US, it is brewed with a distinctly hard water profile and simple extra pale grist before being layered with multiple whirlpool additions dominated by Centennial and Chinook, resulting in a clean, crisp and bracingly bitter flavour profile with big aromas of pine, grapefruit, marmalade, orange rind and autumn deadwood.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Bottle Grove Eastbourne, I believe. A solid West coast DIPA that would no doubt be eben better when fresh and not 2 weeks out of date. Lovely.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2022
at 21:48
8/10
Good Darts companion. Westcoasty marmelade and grapefruit bitter aromas while maintaining a residual sweetness. Could be a little more drier.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2022
at 23:29
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Can at home, 4th December 2021. Pours a clear golden. Aroma is pine and malts, citrus pith. Taste is clean and piney, resin, biter and aromatic and citrus pith. So drinkable! Great beer
Tried
from Can
on 04 Dec 2021
at 19:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Can picked up from Big Scary Monsters, Cowley Road, Oxford. Consumed at Isobel's, Spond nr Kington, Herefordshire, Wednesday 13th October 2021. Pours gold, very little haze, a white head. This is not really doing it for me, a little bit hot, mid bitterness, slight fruity. Ok.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Oct 2021
at 18:04
8/10
Hits all the right WC notes, bitter, pine, citrus. Dangerously easy drinking as well!
Tried
from Can
on 09 Oct 2021
at 22:03
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Beer Stop, Dronfield. Clear gold. Fine white head is lasting and semi lacing. Nose has buttery malts. Pine sap. Lemon verbena. Not too much else going on. Taste is sticky sweet, with some ripe citrus bitterness. Sticky and slightly heavy on the palate with soft carbonation. Lingering sappy bitterness to finish. Should be chuggable and definitely isn’t.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2021
at 19:32