Numbskull Imperial IPA - 14 - Strata
Lighthouse Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.00
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Brewed with a heavy backbone of Vienna and Pale malts and a rotating hop. Strata's west coast hop profile delivers an invigorating explosion of flavour with every sip.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
473mL can, pours a clear copper with a medum white head. Aroma reveals some strawberry-like hops, a touch of melon, some earthy spiciness, and bready malt. Flavour bursts with fresh tropical hops -- lots of passionfruit, strawberry, some citrus, bitter grapefruit, and melon -- with a sufficiently sweet bready malt base. Though it's much on the aromatics, the flavour profile is very satisfying. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver; thanks Chris for bringing this in
It's clean, but amber colour; medium sized head. Very light aroma of biscuity malts. The mouthfeel is lean, at least not chewy or sweet; there's a base of bready malt, light toast; balanced bitterness; caramelized fruit is a bit too little for the hop profile. Oldish school, and modest anyway.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
650 ml bottle,. Pours a bright copper color with light head. Aromas of muddled fruit, pine resin, toffee, and bready malts. Flavors of toffee, pine, citrus peel and bready malts. Solid
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
473mL can. Pours clear gold with thin white head. Aroma is quite light; strawberries, a bit of orange peel. Flavour has some soft malts, grapefruit. Berry notes throughout, but not a fruity beer. A bit of strawberry on the finish. Good amount of hoppiness. Nice.