Blindsided Imperial IPA
Central City Brewers & Distillers (Red Racer) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.11
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Previously 10% ABV (2023 release)
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at Central City, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma has a lot of syrupy caramel malt—hinting at a cloyingly sweet beer—with subdued resinous hops beneath the sugar. Flavour is extremely sweet, with cough syrup-like caramel sweetness and only traces of hop expression that are buried beneath the syrupy malt. Way too malty and sugary, without the hops to complement. Very poor.
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours clear gold with a white head. Nose has a bunch of stale pine and syrupy malts. Flavour has super thick and syrupy malts with a dusting of stale old pine. Really dusty. Brewed with the elegance of a sledgehammer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from the tap. Hazy gold with small white head. Malty, touch of booze, bland pithy citrus hops. Unbalanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pale and hazy, thin head. Fruity, peachy hop aroma. A bit of alcohol and a splash of pale malt. Lots of bitterness, pithy orange notes. Good TIPA.