Armory XPA (Extra Pale Ale)
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale Regular|
Score
6.76
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Malt: Crystal
Hops: Nugget, Northern Brewer, Citra, Cascade, Centennial
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 9-23-2014
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Jim’s Burger, Bangkok. Poured a very slightly hazy medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is malt, citrus metallic hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a fresh crisp, citrusy, woody resin hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle pour. Appearance is cloudy light brown with noticeable floating sediment, minimal sparkle, finger-width off-white foamy head with poor retention and light leggy lacing. Aroma is herbal, musty hops over bready malt base. Taste is strong scallions and herbs over bready malts. Palate is medium bodied with thick, foamy texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, I give it credit for being different as the herbal nature is not where most APA’s go, but it’s not my favorite.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Craftissimo at home. Armory XPA. Clearish copper pour with dense thin white head. Aroma is bitter and slightly pilsner-y with some grassy hops and some green apple. Taste is crisp and grassy with some solid deep malty sweetness. Again somewhat pilsner-y. Lasting crisp pine bitterness. Good!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Shared 12 oz. bottle. Pale amber, off-white head, Aroma of malt, fruit, and pine. Taste is malt, caramel, possibly faint dark berry notes, tea, fruit, pine. Bitter finish. Nice.
Drake (22938) reviewed Armory XPA (Extra Pale Ale) from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg at Hopcat Madison, 8/15/16. Clear amber, large creamy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of floral, herbal hops, pale malt. The taste is herbal, piney hops, pale doughy malt. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Mango and strawberry aroma, honey underneath. Cloudy copper, medium yellow head. Lemongrass, orange, grapefruit. Brief appearances of grain. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Great aroma, but rather ordinary on the palate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the street party. Pours a copper with a white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces slightly. Aroma has sweet grains, bread and grass with a hint of pine backing. Flavor has sweet grains, pine, light resin and grass with a hint of caramel underlying.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a slightly hazy copper-gold, with smallish head. Aroma has some citrus and tropical fruit/floral character. Flavor is very hop-bitter (loads of pine and spruce), with citrus and a nice sweetness. Really good.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Bottle. Except for decent co2 on the palate, this is an IPA. Looks like a yuengy. Bitter hop obsession fer sure. Long bitter nearly astringent finish. Enough already.