California IPA
Slow Hand Beer Co. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.94
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Expect a pale golden pour with a crisp and easy drinking bite, surrounded by intense hop aroma and flavour bursting with bright tropical fruit and citrus notes.
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Gerbeer (8336) reviewed California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
473 ml can. Pours gold with moderate head. Aromas of pineapple, lupulin powder, sweat, candied citrus, white pepper and crackers malts. Flavors of tropical fruit, limes, lupulin powder and dry toasted malts. Interesting, and quite nice IMHO, though less of the Lupulin extract character would make this one so much better.
solidfunk (22078) ticked California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 10 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Some pineapple marmalade. Tangy end. Not great balance. Can.
cmacklin (5139) reviewed California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
473ml can. Pours a clear gold with a medium, frothy, short lived, white head that laces. Aroma of crackery pale malt, grapefruit, pineapple, floral and weedy hops. Sweet fruity flavour of biscuity pale malt, grapefruit, mango, pineapple and pine resin in a crisp, dry, bitter finish. Medium body with an oily texture and average carbonation. Clean and easy to drink.
RennyDoig (4859) reviewed California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Flight at brewery. Pours slightly hazy yellow. Aroma has citrus and pine hops with some light malts. Flavour has grapefruit citrus, a bit of resin/pine, and again some light malts. Doesn't really taste like a WC IPA per se, but not a bad IPA.
Oakes (33770) reviewed California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pale gold, not much head. Sulphur, a bit of weed on the nose. Similar palate. The malt base is good but this combo of hops doesn'�t seem to work, and comes across like aged leek farts.
mcberko (47797) reviewed California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
473mL can, pours a minimally hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma reveals plenty of oily resinous hops, some pine, a touch of citrus, and crisp biscuity malt to back. Flavour is aggressive, with plenty of floral, resinous hops, some pine, a bit of that chamomile character that Alex spotted, and an oily, biscuity finish. It's slightly rough despite being rather low on residual bitterness (for a WC), but reasonably well-calibrated. Good.
pictoman (9831) reviewed California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 473mL can (thanks fiulijn for grabbing). Clear blonde gold with white head. Light and floral hops that don't lose flavour, just a feint hint of pine on the finish. Would prefer the intense WC bitterness personally, but appreciating this for what it is.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed California IPA from Slow Hand Beer Co. 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Pale blond colour, clean. Intense aroma, a blend of floral hops, pine, zest. The mouthfeel is dry and crispy, there's a delicate crackery malt base, the bitterness is well balanced, with hop quality; it starts with some chamomile, gives way to some herbaceous character, and finishes with pine resins.
Clean and bold, very good.