Wild West
Baron Brewing in Great Hormead, Hertfordshire, England 🏴
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.22
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Huge bitterness, enough malt base to hold it together, resinous hop character and that oily, sappy, quenchy feeling that makes you want more. The USA still have the upper hand here. Will us Brits get there? Or have our pallets succumbed to the soft and pillowy juice?
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home, 23rd May 2025. Pours a rich clear copper. It’s hoppy and piney on the nose, with a hint of caramel. Taste is bitter, resinous, malty, lovely westie
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jun 2025
at 20:39
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
on 26 Feb 2025
at 23:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
26th February 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear amber beer with a small bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Malts bring a pretty modest creamy sweetness and a fair dose of unsweet caramel. Dry piney hop intro into mild skunk a reasonably bright citrus peel. Light crisp finish leaves a mild bitter linger. For me a good West Coaster, goes right up to the boundary of what annoys me about this style but never crosses it, stays coherent and pretty darn suppable.
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear amber beer with a small bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Malts bring a pretty modest creamy sweetness and a fair dose of unsweet caramel. Dry piney hop intro into mild skunk a reasonably bright citrus peel. Light crisp finish leaves a mild bitter linger. For me a good West Coaster, goes right up to the boundary of what annoys me about this style but never crosses it, stays coherent and pretty darn suppable.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2025
at 18:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 01/02/2025.
Clear golden amber topped with a light egg shell white head.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, grapefruit, crisp malts, melon.
Taste comprises bitter orange, grass, grapefruit, pine needle, melon, papaya.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctured with light juicy come grassy hop bitterness.
Tidy clean drinking WC affair.
Clear golden amber topped with a light egg shell white head.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, grapefruit, crisp malts, melon.
Taste comprises bitter orange, grass, grapefruit, pine needle, melon, papaya.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctured with light juicy come grassy hop bitterness.
Tidy clean drinking WC affair.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2025
at 17:02