XXXX IPA
Shipyard Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
6.94
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XXXX IPA is a non-traditional American IPA with a brilliant copper color and the classic citrus nose of Cascade Hops. It demonstrates a unique balance between malt-inspired, red grapefruit sweetness and lingering hop dryness.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bomber from BevMo. Pours a deep copper with a decent beige head. Floral and citrus aromas. Not much malt. Near full bodied with mild carbonation. Flavor is pretty balanced between caramel and hop. Not. I think the hop is winning nicely. Finish is pretty bitter. Nice burn from the oils. Good stuff.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2009
at 20:56
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours brilliantly clear copper with nice off white head. The modest aroma has notes of citrus and hoppy spice to go along with malts, caramel and a tad bit of butterscotch. The mouth feel is chewy allowing time for deep flavor contemplation. I get a load of late addition hop flavor from grapefruit, orange peel and tangelo. By midway the citrus hops grow from hop flavor to a moderate level of hop bitterness with grapefruit as well as pine mixing with sweet malts, mildly roasty malts and a touch of caramel or toffee or butterscotch or something. It ends with lingering hop bitterness and mild to faint dry roasted malts. Very tasty and very easy drinking brew.
Tried
on 25 May 2009
at 08:26