India Pale Ale
Spencer Brewery in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.85
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Inspired by American brewcraft creativity, Spencer IPA is crisp, fragrant, and golden-hued. Generously hopped, bright, bitter – one of a kind.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cloudy dark golden, white froth. Peach and pine aroma. Fruity with light caramel. Flavour has caramel and piney hops, some grapefruit notes. Rather sweet. Has a chewy, somewhat DIPA-ish feel to it. Not bad.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2016
at 13:55
8/10
Tried
on 24 Jul 2016
at 15:28
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Real Ale Store, Newark. Slight hazy golden colour with a white head. Grapefruit and pine area. Taste light sweet to mid bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2016
at 12:38
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
355ml bottle @ Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours a misty amber, thin off-white head. Aroma is resinous caramel. Taste is extremely rich crystal malts, caramel, resin with a sharp bitter pine finish. A bit overly sweet & rich. Not particularly enjoyable unfortunately.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2016
at 13:42
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle 355ml @ Sommerhuset
Pours hazy golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, caramel and yeast. Taste is medium sweet and ligth to medium bitter with a long caramel, citrus and yeasty finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, caramel and yeast. Taste is medium sweet and ligth to medium bitter with a long caramel, citrus and yeasty finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2016
at 05:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On draft at The Sovereign in Georgetown. Pours a cloudy gold with an off white head. Aroma of pine. Flavors of pine and grass with some caramel. Intensely bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jul 2016
at 17:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. A hazy, orange colored beer with a dense, off-white head leaving curtains. The aroma is peachy and piney, canned peaches mostly, with a resiny touch and some malty, sugary notes. It’s very bitter on the palate, sure enough bitterness to deal with the residual sugars. Full body and a smooth carbonation. Orange zest, pine cones and grapefruit flavor with some white bread malts in the back. Lasting finish which feels sort of dry at first, due to the bitterness, but in the very end the sweetness shows up. Still it feels rather dry, and the piney, resiny bitterness stays for a long while. Rather unbalanced this one, but I liked it anyway. After a few sips it drinks easily too. 160703
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2016
at 14:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at The Sovereign in DC. Poured a slightly murky amber-orange color with a small white head. Aroma was light floral notes, touch of spice. Flavor was earthy, floral hop notes. More malt forward. Very reminiscent of an English IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jun 2016
at 22:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 7.2%. Unclear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, earthy, peach and old hop. Flavour is malt, caramel, hop, medium sweet, earthy, old hop, little peach and a little grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2016
at 04:36
5.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 4
Poured into a wine glass showing a finger of clean white foam on top of well filtered neon yellow. The nose shows a lot of caramel sweet malts. The palate shows a moderate carbonation and medium bodied. Flavors of malt with a slight sweetness but a very distinct hoppy IPA bitterness on the finish. Starts off malty like a pale ale but ends on a distinct clean IPA bitterness without any fruit or other dimensions. I personally think it takes the worst of a British IPA and mixes it with those of an American one.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jun 2016
at 07:22