Galaxywatcher
West Coast Brewing (Japan) in Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.26
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It's all fun and games until you become mortal enemies with your best friend from grade school, amirite? Like so many other fantastic fables, ours has the protagonist and antagonist as schoolmates, spending their formative years together, gazing at the stars (and... taking turns watching each other play Secret of Mana until 2am?). While our would-be Hop foes were oblivious to their fate, when we cooked up Galaxywatcher... we knew EXACTLY what we were getting into. Suped up Starwatcher. Starwatcher on performance-enhancing substances. Freaking Barry Bonds Starwatcher, basically. And yes, just like the not-so-subtle proper noun in the last sentence, this elixir be hitting DINGERS. Fresh-cut grass and woody aromatics, melon and cantaloupe notes. Subtle hints of citrus / grapefruit, floral notes of geranium, with grape, berry and stone fruit flavors. This West Coast Double IPA has it all.
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7/10
Medium sweet fruity and malty with notes with citrus and tropical fruit, nice sweet malty backbone, bitter hoppy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2025
at 06:05
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
13th March 2025
CBJ tasting. Thanks to Tips for the can. A light haze on this gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Light palate, decent fine minerally carbonation. Light cooling pine. Soft citrus and tropical fruits, good broad spectrum Galaxy. Light finish. Fruity and drinkable. 8.3
CBJ tasting. Thanks to Tips for the can. A light haze on this gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Light palate, decent fine minerally carbonation. Light cooling pine. Soft citrus and tropical fruits, good broad spectrum Galaxy. Light finish. Fruity and drinkable. 8.3
Tried
from Can
on 15 Mar 2025
at 11:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Nicely rounded. Lightly ripened citrus fruits, tangerine, light piney bitterness. Good balance.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Mar 2025
at 21:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Can
on 13 Mar 2025
at 20:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is semi sweet jammy pine, orange, medium dank. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, jammy pine, juicy, pine, clean, resin,. Sticky hop.. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Mar 2025
at 11:48