Big DIPA
Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom

Big DIPABig DIPA
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From:
Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
8.5%
Score:
89
Avg:
4.02 | pDev: 4.98%
Reviews:
4
Ratings:
10
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 09, 2015
Added:
Sep 12, 2015
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  1
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Ratings by joemcgrath27:
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Rated by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)

4.24/5  rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Sep 25, 2015
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Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)

4.1/5  rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This is a dandy, full bodied DIPA from one of my favourite Alberta breweries. I really like how they stepped up the hops, alcohol content, and malt profile with this beer. It looks great in the glass, smells like an IPA should, and really takes stride when it gets in your mouth! Lots of pine, citrus, and caramel malt mesh together with a sneaky booziness. The finish is appropriately bitter - just what the doctor ordered for fall!
Dec 09, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by sherpahigh from Canada (AB)

Dec 03, 2015
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Reviewed by andrenaline from Canada (ON)

4.24/5  rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a murky copper colour, thumb of head with solid retention and sporadic lacing. Nose is loaded with sweet citrus, lemon iced tea and burnt caramel on the finish. Loaded with sweet candied lemon hops, cotton candy and candied caramel, with a nice tart citrus rind bitterness that lingers. Medium bodied, smooth and a touch of dryness. Super solid DIPA and stoked to get my hands on this treat. Thanks joemcgrath27!
Nov 20, 2015
 
Rated: 4.02 by timsoder from Utah

Oct 21, 2015
 
Rated: 4.21 by mattsander from Canada (AB)

Sep 24, 2015
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Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)

4.01/5  rDev -0.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle poured into tulip 19/9/15

A slight haze in an orange amber body, lots of slow bubbles but just a short lived loose thumbs width of foam that leaves no lace

T fruit punch, candied pineapple, passion fruit, spruce, and caramel, maybe a little melon, fairly tropical and candy like, jujubes smells strong

T lots of pine and lemon rind compared to the nose, lots of sweet caramel keeps it form being a hop runaway, has a marmalade to it as it warms

M bitter no doubt, leaning towards heavy, just enough bubbles to fluff it up, a little heat and grit

O I'm loving the nose, has some balance, easy to drink for the strength but i know I'm drinking a DIPA

Very nice DIPA from my local, I might grab another for one of these chilly Fall evenings knowing it was bottled 9 days ago
Sep 20, 2015
 
Rated: 3.53 by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)

Sep 18, 2015
 
Rated: 3.99 by BigBry from Canada (AB)

Sep 14, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.89/5  rDev -3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle. Wow, two big releases from this Cowtown purveyor of craft suds in as many weeks. At first glance, this seems like it should be pronounced 'Big D-I-P-A', but upon further label inspection, it comes off as sounding like an Aussie referring to the asterism in question.

This beer pours a clear, pale golden amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and only mildly bubbly chalky white head, which leaves some broad spans of sudsy land bridge lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of somewhat dank pine resin, further leafy and floral greenery notes, a grainy, lightly crackery pale and caramel maltiness, muddled tropical fruit, a soft stoney flintiness, and some faint suggestions of a metallic booziness unsatisfied with its current behind the scenes station. The taste is sharp pine needle and estery floral forest floor bitters, a growing white chalky acerbity, grainy, and lightly bready caramel malt, mixed domestic and tropical citrus fruit notes, and the same outside looking in alcohol measure from the nose.

The carbonation is nice and tame in its lilting and mostly gentle frothiness, the body just on the low side of yer typical medium weight, and generally smooth, neither the hops nor the big ABV (not going to give that one a go in the perceived titular vernacular) seeming to give a whit about interfering here. It finishes on a strong drying vector, the pine and still mixed and matched fruitiness strongly pulling down the pants of any lingering grainy malt sweetness.

A decent rendering of a big-ass, er, IPA, I suppose, when one strips away the celestial marketing angle - yeah, there are indeed Comet (coincidentally the name of my men's soccer team) and Galaxy hops abounding in this one. Ok, back to the label's suggestion of pondering the universe and whatnot - I did a whole lot of looking up into the rain-clogged sky tonight, and it wasn't at the stars - it was to ensure my toddler's safety as he strut his stuff at my aforementioned team's summer wind-up gig - this is just my self-justified award, as such.
Sep 13, 2015
Big DIPA from Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom
Beer rating: 89 out of 100 with 10 ratings