Bright Wave
Counter Weight Brewing Company in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Rotating|
Score
7.10
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Our take on the more modern style West Coast IPA. Dry, a bit less bitter, lean and clean and saturated with hop flavor
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
Few cans at home. Lighter colored and frothy head. Nose is melon and pine. Tatses of grapefruit, honey dew, pine, sourdough. Lighter bodied drinkable
Tried
on 02 Dec 2025
at 05:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Taster pour from a can at crazy bash. Lightly hazy bright bright yellow light carbonation ring of head with good retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong citrus. Taste is strong citrus with a pine. Fry texture average carbonation lightly tiny bitter finish as taste. Tasty West Coast IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2025
at 16:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
8 oz draft. Crystal clear Golden in appearance. Aroma is soft, grapefruit peel, soft malt, super light weed. Doesn’t show much pine. No resin (thankfully). Good balance. Easy to drink. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bright Wave on 05 Oct 2025 at 01:07 - Score: Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: 8 oz draft. Crystal clear Golden in appearance. Aroma is soft, grapefruit peel, soft malt, super light weed. Doesn’t show much pine. No resin (thankfully). Good balance. Easy to drink.
Tried
from Draft
at
WeHa Brewing & Roasting Co
on 31 Aug 2025
at 00:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at WeHa, 5/31/25.
Clear lemony-golden. Bright. White head.
Lightly juicy with round citrus, a bit of wood and bright, not resinous pine. Cracker and scant white bread from malt, but no resin or caramel.
Another lovely interpretation of a WC, with tons of woodiness, greenery, grapefruit and pine and a clean malt bill featuring light white bread and lots of biscuit. Would appreciate more malt depth and softer sweetness here, though, as it gets very dry and acidic as the glass goes on.
Clear lemony-golden. Bright. White head.
Lightly juicy with round citrus, a bit of wood and bright, not resinous pine. Cracker and scant white bread from malt, but no resin or caramel.
Another lovely interpretation of a WC, with tons of woodiness, greenery, grapefruit and pine and a clean malt bill featuring light white bread and lots of biscuit. Would appreciate more malt depth and softer sweetness here, though, as it gets very dry and acidic as the glass goes on.
Tried
from Draft
at
WeHa Brewing & Roasting Co
on 01 Jun 2025
at 12:09