Sculpin IPA - Spruce Tip
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Rotating|
Score
7.19
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A COOL WINTER SPIN ON OUR SIGNATURE IPA
Our flagship Sculpin IPA shows its complexity in this limited Spruce Tip edition. For a different twist on our trademark IPA, we added Oregon spruce tips that contribute a unique piney, citrus and woody character on the nose. Plus, their flavor notes of red berry, lemon and wine grapes perfectly complement our hop profile. A great brew for the holidays and well beyond, this is a standout in a forest of IPAs.
Our flagship Sculpin IPA shows its complexity in this limited Spruce Tip edition. For a different twist on our trademark IPA, we added Oregon spruce tips that contribute a unique piney, citrus and woody character on the nose. Plus, their flavor notes of red berry, lemon and wine grapes perfectly complement our hop profile. A great brew for the holidays and well beyond, this is a standout in a forest of IPAs.
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7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2019
at 13:36
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Beer Hunters. Hazy orange colour, medium-sized white head. Tropical fruity, a bit juicy and candyish nose. Medium-bodied. Tropical fruits and resin in the flavour. Solid malt base. Some bitterness in the aftertaste. Mix of modern and classic.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Feb 2019
at 19:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours clear, copper tinged gold with a moderate white head. Aroma is evergreen over slightly roasty caramel. Med body or so. Flavor is very evergreen - I can really think of it as spruce - maybe more so than the Alaskan ale. So it's fairly dry, spruce/evergreen and bitter. Oh yes, bitter. Really good stuff for the lover of bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2019
at 02:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, no visible date. Amber with an inch + of white head that lasts well Aroma of honeyed toast, grapefruit, pine. Different but not wildly so from normal Sculpin. But the taste is sappy; sweet with a drying medicinal feel almost matching the bitterness. Plays OK with citrus and some floral notes. Interesting, grew on me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2019
at 12:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from web SB cons 2019.02.10 Göteborg AR: tropical fruity, spruce, citrus, orange AP: hazy coppery, frothy ofwhite head F: fresh tropical fruity, spruce, orange flower
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2019
at 20:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
An orange beer, a head is quite small and blond. Aroma has fructose and caramel, tropical fruitness and peaches, quite fresh even the sweetness is at the high level. Taste has fructose, peach, other fruitness, then also some harsh taste, propably from spruce tips even I can't recognize it for spruce. Medium bodied. The taste is too harsh and maybe the spruce tips doesn't mix nicely with other flavours.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2019
at 16:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Flaska från Systembolaget:
Bärnstensfärgad med lite dis. Tätt skum. Doft av ananas, karamell och granbarr. Lite sträv, beska smak av granbarr och humle.
Spretig men ändå ganska bra.
Bärnstensfärgad med lite dis. Tätt skum. Doft av ananas, karamell och granbarr. Lite sträv, beska smak av granbarr och humle.
Spretig men ändå ganska bra.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2019
at 19:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Lys brun klar med fingerhøyt hvitt skum. Lukter sitrusskall og noe anis. Middels fylde. Mye humlebitterhet. Sitrusskall, grapefrukt, noe barnål. Ren. Noe sitrus. Lang bitter avslutning.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2019
at 15:37
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Flaska från SB. Mörk bärnstensfärgad med off-white fluffigt skum. Citrus, granskott, blodgrape, kåda, apelsinmarmelad. Bra tryck i beskan.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2019
at 18:49
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottled, from Systembolaget. Clear deep golden, small head. Aroma of grapefruit and spruce tips. Mid sweet with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Lots of spruce tips, some grapefruit. Very bitter finish. Solid, albeit somewhat sterile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2019
at 22:38