Thumper American IPA
Minhas Craft Brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
5.28
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Fiercely hopped and hopped again, Thumper IPA keeps on going and going. Does it tantalize your tongue?
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4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
12oz can from Trader Joe's. Light amber pour with a short-lived fizzy head. Aroma is malty and sweet. Taste is also malty with metallic notes. Taste like you're licking the can.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Aug 2021
at 05:38
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 2
12 oz. can from Trader Joe. Pours a hazy bronze color with a beige head and very good retention. Limited lacing. Sourish yeast aroma. Medicinal and metallic malts flavors with a slightly boozy finish. Limited hops flavor or bitterness. Tastes more like an old amber ale and malt liquor mix. Crisp mouthfeel. Medium body. Acidic finish. Poorly made. Cheap, and it tastes like it.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jun 2020
at 00:47
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Boatswain American IPA can pour into nonic pint glass at TJ's. Appearance is lightly hazy orange-brown with minimal sparkle, finger-width beige fizzy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is bread/nondescript malts, mild fruit, basement. Taste is cardboard, fruit, earthy resin and vaguely buttery (diacetyl) quality as mentioned in other reviews. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with foamy texture, average carbonation and finish as taste with light bitterness. Overall, this is really a terrible IPA (hence its "1" rating for style). But, I'm not sure for what style it would be considered good. It is not good. Don't waste your money, even the $.84 I spent on it. Not worth it.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2018
at 18:24
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can as part of the Trader Joe's 'Boatswain' range. Amber in colour, with a slight, white, head. Sweet, heavy malts, rather artificial citrus notes and a boozy, heavy, finish. Not for me.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2017
at 11:54
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
12 ounce can from Trader Joe’s. Labeled as Boatswain American IPA. Amber orange color. Large rocky white head. Faint fruity malt nose. Tart spicy toasted malt flavor has metallic notes. Light hops in finish. Slightly bitter medicinal aftertaste.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Aug 2017
at 21:08
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. A dark golden beer with a huge beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, elderflowers, and fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, flowers, and fruit, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2016
at 22:43
3.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 3
$3 bomber! This stuff so rude it borders on the double imperial old IPA taste. Cloudy iced tea color. Strong, medicinal. Alky begins to stick its ugly head up. Does have some minor cutting co2 in the background. Difficult, semi hard, strenuous, arduous, laborious, tough, onerous, burdensome, demanding, punishing, grueling, and nearly back-breaking, Good deal, thanks trader joe.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2015
at 13:51
2/10
Tried
on 15 May 2015
at 20:51
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bomber as "Boatswain" from Trader Joe’s - I bought this because it was cheap and I sometimes have luck with these Trader Joe’s beers - hard to know how to rate this, as it’s not really an IPA - it tastes more like a watered-down, mediocre American Barleywine - clear light amber - pretty much no head - nose of toffee, fruit cocktail, treacle, brown sugar - if I came to it blind without knowing the style, I might actually find it pleasant, albeit a bit sweet - kind of watery and thin in the mouth - caramelized sugars, moderate bitterness, some oxidized kind of sherry-like notes, cherry - finish is really husky - weird beer, but not entirely without enjoyable parts.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Apr 2015
at 22:31
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
Truly a putrid mess. Thumper IPA keeps going and going, destroying any sense of good taste and craftsmanship in its wake. A sweet, trashy mix of garbage. Pours brown, finishes like a cheap rum candy. Bottle for two bucks at Trader Joes.
Tried
from Can
on 05 May 2014
at 16:49