India Pale Ale
Tuatara Brewing Company in Paraparaumu, Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.42
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Tuatara Indian Pale Ale is brewed using the finest New Zealand malt imparting to the beer a full-bodied malt character yet still retaining the light color of the style. Classic English variety hops are used to produce the traditional high bitterness, flavor and aroma enjoyed in this style. This is a strong ale with 5% alcohol.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Rakuten, it poured a deep copper-amber pour with a thick fluffy head & a luscious floral hop aroma with hints of fruitiness and dank resinous hop notes. Medium bodied with a lightly scratchy carbonation this IPA tastes lightly bitter with pine, resin & a certain fruity quality to it. Really tasty stuff, a great easy drinking fairly sessionable IPA. Nothing extraordinary but quite solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2014
at 05:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Peculier Pub, NYC bottle ($7): Pours amber with off-white head. Aroma is honey, malt, and a bit of hops. Taste is a light amount of bitterness. Some honey sweetness. Loads of biscuit and chewy malts. Easy to drink and sessionable. Very English IPA style. For Americans on either coast, this is pretty light stuff. Not bad though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2013
at 09:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Amber colour. Citrusy and slightly woody aroma. Earthy, light citrust character. Moderate bitterness and a hint of chewiness. Reminds me a bit of Blockhouse IPA from Cape Town.
Tried
on 12 May 2013
at 22:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Location: 11.2 oz bottle from State Line, 1/31/13, Rating #111 of the Month!
Aroma: The nose is fairly subtle, with some clean pale malts and some citrus hops
Appearance: Pours an unclear orange-amber with a rather large, pillowy, heavily laced, off-white head
Flavor: The taste is a little bit sweet, a little malty, mildly spicy, and with a bit of earthy hop
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a decent mouthfeel, but a little too much carbonation
Overall Impression: I felt like this was a half decent example of a British-style IPA. (Which, if you let him, jcos can go on a 30 minute rant about how it should be it's own style.) Anyway, back from that digression, there are some good components here, but some flaws too, and it obviously doesn't have the in-your-face hops that an American IPA fan would prefer in the style. Still though, it is a solid, drinkable beer.
Aroma: The nose is fairly subtle, with some clean pale malts and some citrus hops
Appearance: Pours an unclear orange-amber with a rather large, pillowy, heavily laced, off-white head
Flavor: The taste is a little bit sweet, a little malty, mildly spicy, and with a bit of earthy hop
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a decent mouthfeel, but a little too much carbonation
Overall Impression: I felt like this was a half decent example of a British-style IPA. (Which, if you let him, jcos can go on a 30 minute rant about how it should be it's own style.) Anyway, back from that digression, there are some good components here, but some flaws too, and it obviously doesn't have the in-your-face hops that an American IPA fan would prefer in the style. Still though, it is a solid, drinkable beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2013
at 14:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
23rd October 2011
Very hazy amber brown beer. Tidy cream coloured head. Palate is softish but has a fine prickly carbonation. Creamy malt with a nice touch of caramel. A little raw malt as well. Just a touch of citrus providing some balance before the crisp dry finish. It’s fine but an IPA really should have more hop presence!
Very hazy amber brown beer. Tidy cream coloured head. Palate is softish but has a fine prickly carbonation. Creamy malt with a nice touch of caramel. A little raw malt as well. Just a touch of citrus providing some balance before the crisp dry finish. It’s fine but an IPA really should have more hop presence!
Tried
on 27 Jan 2013
at 09:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared at Sander’s place in NYC during an evening of heavy drinking. Pours clear, rich gold with a huge, white foam head. Nose of tangy, lightly toasted bread. Medium sweet flavor with lots of brown sugar, light caramel. Light to medium bodied with average, creamy carbonation. Mild dryness on the finish with lots of toasted malts, some further brown sugar, faint caramel. Extremely so so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2012
at 02:25
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Wachi. Slight citrus hop aroma, English hops. Lots of malty caramel. flavor also sweet and malty, with caramel and biscuits. A bit of hops but doesn’t balance out so well. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2011
at 15:53
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Max’s. Pours clear amber. Nose of pepper, hops and citrus. Taste of dry hops, white pepper and caramel malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2010
at 23:37
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poursw hazy amber with a superb, ever-growing head fed by lively streams of carbonation.The aroma really showcases the noble hops with extremely spicy, green floral characters. The malt is also quite prominent with nice cookie-dough notes.Similar story with the flavours, those spicy hops are really quite potent. Not so impressed with the character they give in the finish, it’s quite sharp. The sweet cookie-dough-like malt does a great job of countering it anyway.Carbonation is quite prickly, over the top.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2010
at 22:17
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Not a bad beer, but too light on the hops for an IPA, in my opinion. There’s some likable caramel sweetness, but without a strong hoppy finish, it’s not very satisfying. Of course, this beer was shipped from New Zealand, so it could be better fresher. As is, I’m not a big fan. Nice look, though - bright copper liquid with a creamy off-white cap. Mouthfeel is smooth. Hops are grass, pine resin, a bit earthy. Malt tastes of rich caramel, but the aftertaste is a bit cloying. Nice label on the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2010
at 18:14