Rotator IPA Series - Hopside Down IPL
Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.60
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We're turning things deliciously upside down with an aggressively hopped, cold-fermented brew that brings together the clean, crisp finish of a lager with the hoppy aroma and character of an IPA. Prost, to turning convention on it's head.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draught from Draught 55. Pale yellow clear pour. Strong hopts caracter, rreally didn’t getmuch of a lager there but good enough.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Golden colour with a fluffy white head. Aroma is resin, some fruity, floral, earthy and mild caramel tones. Flavour is floral, fruity and some sight tart tones to it. Mellow fruity bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2024
at 16:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Waterfront Ale House. Hazy bright orange with small off-white foamy head, lemon peel aroma, low carbonation, bitter lemon zest taste, medium bitter finish with a great deal of aftertaste. Smooth body but strong lemon flavor.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2015
at 15:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Prima Beer @ Kristrup tasting. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, light stale grassy hops. Flavor is light sweet, malty, caramel, grass, light bitter hops. Medium body, average carbonation, light bitter finish. 310115
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2015
at 13:07
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Dull hoppy aroma. Wew, first taste is a big kick in the palate and now I see its almost 7% wew. Chewing on older green grapefruit rinds. Over the top and too much for these girlie taste buds. Finish is like licking slick oily liquid soap. Terribly on style if this is an doubly impy pale ale. Clean clear taste of a lager or do you imperial pilz? Brutally on hoppy style something strong or imperial.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2015
at 14:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Creamy White good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and heavy hoppy aroma. Flowery. Heavy bitter flavor. Average heavy bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2014
at 12:32
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
bottle - Pours yellow-orange with a one finger off-white head. It smells of citrus hops. The flavor has some caramel malt and a good citrus hop character. So it’s a lager? Okay, it tastes like a pretty good IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2014
at 17:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Supervalu, Kimmage, Dublin [300814] BBE 06/08/14
Blonde, fluffy white head, light haze
Aroma of soft sweet pale malts, citrus, soft zest, nice light malts
Taste of citrus bitter zest, light sweet pale malts, grapefruit zest
Palate - soft carb, medium body, bitter zest, soft sweet. Finish of bitter lingering zest
Overall - Seems to have held up well. Decent lager, but seems closer to a fairly strong APA
Blonde, fluffy white head, light haze
Aroma of soft sweet pale malts, citrus, soft zest, nice light malts
Taste of citrus bitter zest, light sweet pale malts, grapefruit zest
Palate - soft carb, medium body, bitter zest, soft sweet. Finish of bitter lingering zest
Overall - Seems to have held up well. Decent lager, but seems closer to a fairly strong APA
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2014
at 16:05
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle pours out a crisp golden topped with a white head. Nose is biscuit malts herbal hops and some sweetness. Taste is as the nose with a nice mellow hop profile and a good balance of malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2014
at 16:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(bottle, 35.5cl) Slightly hazy, golden colour with a mid-sized and slightly off-white foamy head. Spicy hoppy aroma with herbal and slightly woody notes, backed by bready cara-malt. Bitter and mildly sweet flavour, light to medium bodied with a modest carbonation. Dry and bready cara-malty base with a good dash of herbal, woody and piney hops, leading into a dry and quite bitter, almost a bit astringent finish. Not perfectly balanced but might be a gem for hop heads like me. 25.IV.14
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2014
at 23:55