California IPA
Slow Hand Beer Co. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.94
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This California-style IPA is inspired by modern West Coast IPAs that use a lighter malt base and novel hopping techniques to intensify hop aroma and flavour while leaving the bitterness associated with old school West Coast IPAs behind.
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.
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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7.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2025
at 23:48
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Some pineapple marmalade. Tangy end. Not great balance. Can.
Tried
from Can
from
Little Guy Liquor Co.
on 18 Jun 2025
at 16:05
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
from
Andrew Hilton Wine and Spirits
on 03 Jun 2025
at 05:20
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2024
at 04:03
6.1/10
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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.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2024
at 02:50
7.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2023
at 04:14
7.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Nov 2023
at 05:32
8/10
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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.
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.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2023
at 05:05