Imperial India Pale Ale
Upslope Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Regular|
Score
7.34
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Welcome the newest addition to our year round lineup–Upslope Imperial India Pale Ale. Packaged exclusively in Ball Corporation’s 19.2 oz Royal Pint can, this assertively hopped 10% ABV Imperial IPA captures a bright orange color with a medium body. Each barrel is brewed using six pounds of a unique blend of hops to impart subtle flavors of pineapple and melon to the central hop notes of citrus and pine.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Slightly clear coloured body with a thin one centimetre tall off-white. Aroma of strong pineapple, pine and resinous hops with a large malt backbone and a strong yeast finish. Full-bodied; Strong rich malt and hops flavour at first with a deep apricot and oak note and a solid malt backbone. Aftertaste shows a very strong hop note with a ton of sugars and toffee and a lot of apricots. Overall,a very nice and rich imperial ipa with a ton of flavours and a rich complexity throughout. I sampled this sixteen ounce can purchased from Santa Fe Wine & Spirits in Littleton, Colorado on 06-June-2014 sampled a day later with haddon90, thanks Phil!
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jun 2014
at 19:53
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Can, courtesy of Matt (mcberko)
Golden color, hazy, medium head. Wonderful fruity hop aroma, a bit animal. Full bodied, good malt flavor, moderately sweet, good toffee character; strong bitterness, animal resins, and plenty of fruity character.
Balanced. Excellent.
Golden color, hazy, medium head. Wonderful fruity hop aroma, a bit animal. Full bodied, good malt flavor, moderately sweet, good toffee character; strong bitterness, animal resins, and plenty of fruity character.
Balanced. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2014
at 01:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can carried from Denver by Liz. Pours light golden amber with a slight white head. There’s pine and mild caramel in the aroma. Med body. Flavor is very smooth pine, floral and arguably fruit. It burns a bit in the gullet (heat), but in the mouth I think the burn is hop. It finishes very bitter and very tasty. Seems like it goes more floral in the finish. Amazingly unharsh.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2014
at 17:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Location: 19.2 oz can (unique, never seen this size before) from Central Market, 2/24/14
Aroma: The nose is resin and pine, tropical notes, and a just a hint of rubbing alcohol
Appearance: It pours a clear gold-orange color with a thin white head and streaks of lace
Flavor: The taste is mildly sweet, mostly bitter, with some slightly off alcohol flavors as well
Palate: The body is medium-full, it is sticky and a touch hot, with a long, dry finish
Overall Impression: I have gotta say, I love that can. Very cool. As for the beer, I actually quite enjoyed the aroma (minus the hint of rubbing alcohol), but the flavor doesn't quite live up to the level of the aroma. This is a decent DIPA, it just happens to have flaws, and those flaws shine through more so than in other beers that are equally as (minimally) flawed. It's close.
Aroma: The nose is resin and pine, tropical notes, and a just a hint of rubbing alcohol
Appearance: It pours a clear gold-orange color with a thin white head and streaks of lace
Flavor: The taste is mildly sweet, mostly bitter, with some slightly off alcohol flavors as well
Palate: The body is medium-full, it is sticky and a touch hot, with a long, dry finish
Overall Impression: I have gotta say, I love that can. Very cool. As for the beer, I actually quite enjoyed the aroma (minus the hint of rubbing alcohol), but the flavor doesn't quite live up to the level of the aroma. This is a decent DIPA, it just happens to have flaws, and those flaws shine through more so than in other beers that are equally as (minimally) flawed. It's close.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Feb 2014
at 21:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
500mL can, sent from robloc303 (thanks a lot, Rob), pours a fairly clear golden orange with a medium white head. Nose brings out resinous hops, caramel malt, some syrup, and some residual candied sugar. Flavour is extremely well-balanced, with loads of resinous hops, caramel malt, piney, and a little residual candied sugar. Amazingly well-balanced, not skewed at all between either the hops or malt. Finishes slightly sweet and quite hoppy. Excellent balanced IIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jan 2014
at 23:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft @ Falling Rock Tap House, Denver, CO. Pours a clear pale amber color with a small longlasting white head. Has a fruity piney hoppy grapefruit aroma. Fruity malty piney hoppy bitter grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty and very bitter hoppy piney grapefruit finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2013
at 07:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
16oz can pours can pours a clear orange with lots of frothy, white head. Nose is very neat, lots of malt, breads almost, cracker, pine, soap, lemon, honey, some orange rind. Flavor is nice, malty and crisp, pine, pine sol, lots of grapefruit, orange rind, soap. Full bodied, slick, bitter finish. Interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2013
at 12:28
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
19.2oz can, that was a wonderful trade bonus from adnielsen, pours with a crystal clear gold body that has a copper core and supports a white head. The aroma offers up malt sweetened rich grapefruit and tangelo citrus hops mixed with some resiny hop notes and a bit of yummy dank onion. The taste is full and rich and deliciously chewy with deep malt sweetened citrus hop extract goodness like grapefruit and sugar sweetened tangelo. It then moves into lighter notes of dank spicy even resiny onion like earthy hoppiness to midway. 10+%? It was very well hidden. Wonderful beer.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2013
at 19:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
16oz can picked up at Total Beverage in CO
Pours clear golden with a medium sized off-white head and some lacing. Aroma of sweet malts and pine resin. Flavors of sweet caramel, pine resin and sticky sweet malts
Ok, bitter and sweet. I love a bitter hoppy DIPA but this was hard to drink.
Pours clear golden with a medium sized off-white head and some lacing. Aroma of sweet malts and pine resin. Flavors of sweet caramel, pine resin and sticky sweet malts
Ok, bitter and sweet. I love a bitter hoppy DIPA but this was hard to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jul 2013
at 22:44