Imperial Refuge IPA (Batch 100)
Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company in Gilbert, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Special|
Score
7.27
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Everyone asks, "What’s your most popular beer?" As a pure analytical data based number, we always respond with "Refuge IPA" every time. So, for batch 100, we decided to make you Refuge IPA lovers, hop fiends, and just plain maniacal taste buds rejoice! We’ve completely amped up the Original Gravity to 19.2 plato (from 16). We also kept the focus on the amazing Pacific NW grown organic simcoe that we are so fortunate to be bale to use. Centennial, Chinook, Columbus, and the whole Cascade join the wild ride. How many hops in this 210 gallon batch? Oh..just...30 lbs of hops! That is almost 5 lbs a barrel. That’s just crazy, yet...drinkable? Enjoy our 100th batch!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler with thanks to agentzigzag. Pours crystal clear amber, small off-white head, dissipates fairly quickly with some residual lacing. Aroma is tropical, dank, pine, passionfruit, mango. Flavor is light sweet, medium bitter. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. Perhaps a bit harsh on the finish, but otherwise very nice.
Tried
from Growler
on 20 Jul 2014
at 16:53
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
32oz growler pours with a clear deep copper body that has thin gold edges and supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up thick malty rich vibrant hops with pine and woodsy earthy spiciness as well as mild dank onion mixed with a green bell pepper note. Yes! I dig it. I like these aromatics. The taste delivers thick smoothness with only moderate pine and spicy and earthy hop bitterness. The hop flavor is a larger component as the malt sweetened tangelo, clementine and dank spicy onion hop flavor please the senses. Love it. This is rich deep hoppy goodness.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Jul 2014
at 13:48