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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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Very rich malt complex on this one makes it a very drinkable IPA. Some mash peel aroma as well. Hazy golden pour with good head and lacing. Light bitter finish with note of tang. Tap at The Sovereign.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2016
at 17:25
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ Studenter hus, Aarhus. Pours golden with an offwhite head. Aroma of malt, toasted bread, a bit yeasty, sweet ripe fruit, peach, ripe pear, melon, alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet, malty, bread, yeasty, ripe fruit, pear, melon, alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation, light sweet finish with a bit of alcohol. 040616
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2016
at 07:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
35,5cl bottle from Sip, Tallinn. Pours more or less completely clear deep golden with a decent white head. Trappist IPA? Can’t really see why that was necessary, but to curious to stay away from it. Fairly hoppy aroma with some fruity notes, pine, caramel and malt. Medium sweet with medium flavour intensity and and bitterness. Balanced and easy to drink, doesn’t stand out in any way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2016
at 12:43
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Greg & Jane’s Beer and Wine. Aroma is bread and caramel malt base with fruity hops, yeast, earth, light pine. Appearance is thick haze, slight orangey yellow, minimal sparkle with finger-width foamy white head with fair retention and decent lacing. Taste is mix of malt, sweet fruity hops, yeast and alcohol--either not altogether finished or just not working so well together. Palate is medium bodied with sticky texture, average to soft carbonation and harsh finish. Overall, aroma started fairly intriguing but the elements didn’t come together right.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2016
at 20:56
7.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, BB 09.09.16 (from Koht). Pours amber with whiteish head. The head stays forever. Aroma is sweet, caramel candy, citrus, malt. Flavor is sweet and bitter, citrus, pine, caramel, honey, some spiciness. Finish is dry and pine bitter with some alcohol warmth. Overall: nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2016
at 12:54
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
0.355 l bottle from ’finestbelgianbeers.com’, best before September 2016. Clear, pale golden amber with a thin, frothy, almost stable, white head. Sweetish, fruity-herbal and dank aroma of mango, orange, honey, ginger, leaves and pine. Sweetish-malty, fruity-herbal and dank taste of mango, orange, honey, ginger, leaves and pine, followed by medium long, medium bitter, resiny-herbal finish. Medium to full body, oily mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Sweet, quite malty, rather unusual hop flavours, but overall very interesting and pleasant. Maybe not the best IPA of all times, but surely not the worst as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2016
at 15:02
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Geers. Hazy orange colour, white foam. Sweet nose of pine, citrus, caramel and honey. Bitter aftertaste. Malty and sweet. Nice IPA!
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2016
at 08:07
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at Cask and Vine. Slightly hazy deep golden color with a decent sized bubbly white head. Big caramel bready maltiness with some earthy floral spicy hops to counter. Seems quite sweet for an IPA, tastes good but not what I was expecting.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Apr 2016
at 19:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Holy Grail, Epping, NH. Hazy straw color with good massive head retention. Aroma shows fruity yeast, light sugar and large amounts of pine hops.
Flavor gives a mild fruity yeast that also has a chewy yeasty texture. A bold floral and pine hop bite in the finish. The bitterness was bold and I drank my glass quick because it was borderline abrasive even at a cold temperature. The yeast and hops didn’t really marry well together.
Flavor gives a mild fruity yeast that also has a chewy yeasty texture. A bold floral and pine hop bite in the finish. The bitterness was bold and I drank my glass quick because it was borderline abrasive even at a cold temperature. The yeast and hops didn’t really marry well together.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Apr 2016
at 15:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours gold into a tulip. White bubbly head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Butterscotch and sourdough aromas. Thick sour caramel and dirty vegetables. Lasting earth finish.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2016
at 17:11