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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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample at Daily Growler UA during the Founders Barrel Aged Bash (CBS, KBS, and more) event on 11/09/2019. Cloudy copper color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Sticky strings of lace. Aroma of citrus, spruce, hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of resiny hops, spruce, citrus and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a citrusy hop and spruce aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
from Growler
on 25 Jan 2019
at 15:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Flaska från SB. Bärnstensfärgad klar vätska med låg vätska. Söt, lite fruktkola, tallskott eller färsk ung tallbark, kåda. Sammantaget som att äta tallkola. Gott
Tried
on 21 Jan 2019
at 17:48
7/10
Hot sauces!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2019
at 13:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap @ BOT. Clear golden coloured. Citrus, pine,resin, fairly bitter. Malty backbone.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jan 2019
at 18:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Spruce tips offset any lingering citrus-tinged malt sweetness, instead adding herbal pine to the already booming Sculpin hop notes. Spruce, apricot, mango, and a slight minty undercurrent lead to a dry, moderately bitter finish. I'd love to roll my eyes at another Sculpin variant, but, hell, this pint's pretty delicious.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2019
at 02:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
bottle - Copper color. Suspended yeast flakes. Big, lingering head. Smells of piney, citrus accented hops. Flavor is quite bitter with resinous hops dominate and some citrus underlying it balanced by malty sweetness. Medium bodied. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2019
at 21:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Momo. Aroma is spruce, citrus, tropical fruit. Pours clear golden with a white head with good retention and sheets of lace. Tastes like a Christmas tree with notes of citrus and tropical fruit. Moderately bittersweet. This is the best Sculpin variant I’ve had in a long time.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jan 2019
at 02:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour into shaker pint glass from Greg & Jane's Beer and Wine. Appearance is lightly hazy pale yellow-orange with greenish tinge, nice sparkle, thin cap of white fizzy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is sweet candied orange, stone fruit, spruce, cracker malt. Taste is as aroma. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin, frothy texture, average carbonation and finish as taste with late bitter balance. Overall, sweeter than usual base Sculpin seemingly not entirely due to the spruce tips, which I wish were a little more dominant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2019
at 02:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Katta pub in Heredia, Costa Rica
Pours clear light golden with a small off-white head, good lacing. Spruce tips, Mills makes, citrus peel and pine resin
Good
Pours clear light golden with a small off-white head, good lacing. Spruce tips, Mills makes, citrus peel and pine resin
Good
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jan 2019
at 02:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Charlottesville. Hazy orange large frothy tan head good retention. Aroma of spruce, pine, dank, pale malt. Taste is resin, spruce, floral, dank, citrus, pale malt. Medium bodied well balanced. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2018
at 21:41