First Pull IPA
Brainerd Lakes Brewery

First Pull IPAFirst Pull IPA
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From:
Brainerd Lakes Brewery
 
Minnesota, United States
Style:
American IPA
ABV:
6.75%
Score:
72
Avg:
2.97 | pDev: 24.92%
Reviews:
20
Ratings:
46
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 03, 2014
Added:
Sep 07, 2010
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  3
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Ratings by troyvar:
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Rated by troyvar from Minnesota

3.75/5  rDev +26.3%

May 23, 2012
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Reviewed by mpipe from Minnesota

2.25/5  rDev -24.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
Appearance: Light amber

Aroma: Budwiser/Miller/Coors. Nothing going on.

Taste & Mouthfeel: They can call it last pull. Terrible. Watered down citrus and hops. It has a strange taste I can't quite describe. Maybe a wheat IPA?

Final Word: Yuck. Pass on this one. This proves an average homebrew does not make good microbrews.
Jul 03, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by IchLiebeBierZu from Minnesota

Apr 09, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by XmnwildX12 from Minnesota

Nov 22, 2013
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Reviewed by LXIXME from New Mexico

2.96/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Small light tan head settles into a nice lacing above a clearish well carbonated deep honey golden colored beer.

Very light aroma of what seems to be a light soapy citrus.

Light taste of what seems to be a cross between citrus and darker fruits, as if apricots meet pineapple and they end up dividing the light taste equally.

A lighter aftertaste without much dryness or tastes of the beer remaining with this lighter medium bodied beer.

A much lighter taste than I was expecting with this Minnesota IPA.
Sep 29, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by Oelschlager from North Dakota

Sep 06, 2013
 
Rated: 1.5 by tuckerlikesbeer from Colorado

Aug 14, 2013
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

2.28/5  rDev -23.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
355ml bottle. What is it with Minhas and Minnesota - can't newfound brewing 'agents' there find a more agreeable (and local) contract brewer?

This beer pours a clear medium bronzed amber hue, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy pale beige head, which leaves some decent spectral webbed lace around the glass as things drop away.

It smells of somewhat biscuity caramel malt, wet forest floor flora - mostly rotting pine - and an astringent mouthwash booziness. The taste is unpleasantly acrid pine needles, subdued, wet bready malt, a cheap vodka alcohol heat, with some growing orchard fruitiness that soon starts to be suggestive of by-gone yuk-a-flux.

The carbonation is pretty sedate, the body an ok medium weight, with only a twinge of pithy clamminess, and smooth enough, I'm manning up to say. It finishes well off-dry, the touched caramel malt suffering little guff from the nearly inappropriate 'hops'.

Gah. Again, not a wholly complete hot mess, but not an IPA of any known stripe either. Given the Minnesota connection, how is this not the same thing as the Tonka Preservation IPA?
Aug 07, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by mnphish from Minnesota

Jun 14, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by Jabartheljr from South Dakota

May 03, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by Eric908 from South Dakota

Apr 07, 2013
 
Rated: 2 by jamiecoppin from North Dakota

Mar 10, 2013
 
Rated: 2.5 by TonyBaloney from Minnesota

Mar 07, 2013
 
Rated: 2.75 by GFG from North Dakota

Feb 08, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by MN_Beerticker from Minnesota

Dec 24, 2012
 
Rated: 3 by Pat316 from Michigan

Nov 06, 2012
 
Rated: 3.25 by fuzzcherry from Minnesota

Oct 12, 2012
 
Rated: 3.25 by Johnhaley1989 from North Dakota

Oct 05, 2012
First Pull IPA from Brainerd Lakes Brewery
Beer rating: 72 out of 100 with 46 ratings