IPA
Breakside Brewery in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.30
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Our take on the classic India Pale ale style - the favorite craft beer of the Northwest. This amber colored brew is loaded with four different types of hops during the brew day and then gets dry hopped. Our IPA has a huge citrus and pine character with a strong, but refined bitterness.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
2014-02-27, draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver, 7-5-8-5-15=40
Hazy light amber color with creamy head. The malt base is good, with toffee accents; the hopping is good as well with tropical fruits, mango, and light animal component; this last one limits a bit the drinkability.
Good and fresh.
2014-01-10, bottle from Legacy Liquor, Vancouver, 8-5-7-5-16=41
Amber color, clean, with medium sized compact head. Aroma is strong, a lot of hop character, very animal, some cat piss. Caramel flavor with a lean mouthfeel; quite dry; strong animal character, cat piss, hop resins, bitter oranges (in the order). Long final.
Excellent and aggressive IPA.
Hazy light amber color with creamy head. The malt base is good, with toffee accents; the hopping is good as well with tropical fruits, mango, and light animal component; this last one limits a bit the drinkability.
Good and fresh.
2014-01-10, bottle from Legacy Liquor, Vancouver, 8-5-7-5-16=41
Amber color, clean, with medium sized compact head. Aroma is strong, a lot of hop character, very animal, some cat piss. Caramel flavor with a lean mouthfeel; quite dry; strong animal character, cat piss, hop resins, bitter oranges (in the order). Long final.
Excellent and aggressive IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2014
at 01:05
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rich deep copper coloured body with a thick, two centimetre tall frothy tan head. Aroma of ridiculously resinous hops with tons of pine, spruce, floral and especially herbal notes throughout. Medium-bodied; Assertive grassy and herbal hop flavours throughout with a very nice pungent kick and a strong and balance malt bite. Aftertaste shows a very pungent and assertive resinous hop kick, but the light apricot taste (no sweetness) shows some good complexity. Overall, a very nice IPA with herbal and resin hop notes throughout and a great balance - great to sample and well worth finding! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Belmont Station in Portland, Oregon on 27-September-2013 for US$4.15 sampled at home in Washington on 13-February-2014.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2014
at 21:51
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber for under 4$. Pours a dark copper color with a large white head. A fresh fruity nose: caramel, big resinous hops. The flavor is excellent: citrus, medium bitterness, resin, big resinous burst, caramel, toasted malt. Damn nice. Lingering resin and bitterness. Tastes much bigger than 6%. Great beer. My first from Breakside.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2013
at 22:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at Breakside, PDX, 25/05/13. Very lightly hazed golden with a thin off white head. Nose is hops, grapefruit, bitter orange. Taste comprises a nice pine bite, juicy hops, bitter grapefruit, orange pith, light mango. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, good hop bitterness in the finish. A most decent IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jun 2013
at 15:06