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Eraser IPA
Rough Draft Brewing Company
- From:
- Rough Draft Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 12.5%
- Reviews:
- 15
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 01, 2020
- Added:
- Apr 13, 2012
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 16
No description / notes.
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Ratings by biboergosum:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.97/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.97/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
22oz bottle, 7% ABV by the local importer and liquor board's measure. Eraserheads, represent! And I like the suggestion of a little revenge fantasy about Betty in Accounting.
This beer pours a crystal clear, medium golden yellow colour, with four tumultuous fingers of puffy, silken, and rocky off-white head, which leaves some sparse and random sudsy roadside stops of lace around the glass as it genially devolves to nil.
It smells of bready, crackery pale malt, a touch of caramel/toffee sweetness, neutered pine and leafy hop esters, orange and grapefruit and guava and lemon and lime and pineapple fruitiness, with a touch of yeasty, weirdly floral otherness. The taste is acrid pine and thoroughly denatured citrus notes, to no ill effect, bready, yeasty, and very lightly caramelized malt, a touch of muddled tropical fruit notes, somehow differentiated lemon Pine-Sol, and further leafy and straw-like hop esters.
The carbonation is average enough, though the frothiness is hard to ignore pretty much straight out of the gate, the body a sturdy medium weight, and hardly smooth, as that acrid hoppiness, while agreeable overall, hardly evokes sympathy here. It finishes off-dry, just, the malt doing well by its wanton lingering essence, and the hops pretty much having crossed the Rubicon, as it were.
A rather agreeably heady and punchy IPA of the So-Cal variety, even if I don't quite believe their apparent raison d'etre - IPAs, all the way, baby? Anyway, bitter and hoppy, with all that typical west-coast goodness, so, splendid, then, take yer place on the shelves amongst your increasingly splendiferous brethren around here - we do indeed love you, but are hardly gobsmacked anymore - the honeymoon is well and over, sigh.
May 20, 2014This beer pours a crystal clear, medium golden yellow colour, with four tumultuous fingers of puffy, silken, and rocky off-white head, which leaves some sparse and random sudsy roadside stops of lace around the glass as it genially devolves to nil.
It smells of bready, crackery pale malt, a touch of caramel/toffee sweetness, neutered pine and leafy hop esters, orange and grapefruit and guava and lemon and lime and pineapple fruitiness, with a touch of yeasty, weirdly floral otherness. The taste is acrid pine and thoroughly denatured citrus notes, to no ill effect, bready, yeasty, and very lightly caramelized malt, a touch of muddled tropical fruit notes, somehow differentiated lemon Pine-Sol, and further leafy and straw-like hop esters.
The carbonation is average enough, though the frothiness is hard to ignore pretty much straight out of the gate, the body a sturdy medium weight, and hardly smooth, as that acrid hoppiness, while agreeable overall, hardly evokes sympathy here. It finishes off-dry, just, the malt doing well by its wanton lingering essence, and the hops pretty much having crossed the Rubicon, as it were.
A rather agreeably heady and punchy IPA of the So-Cal variety, even if I don't quite believe their apparent raison d'etre - IPAs, all the way, baby? Anyway, bitter and hoppy, with all that typical west-coast goodness, so, splendid, then, take yer place on the shelves amongst your increasingly splendiferous brethren around here - we do indeed love you, but are hardly gobsmacked anymore - the honeymoon is well and over, sigh.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by jngrizzaffi from Texas
3.68/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.68/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours a clear dark yellow color with a thin foamy head. Retention is mild. Lacing is good. Big piney aroma but mild at the same time. Mild citrus. Taste is a little off. Big piney hops but the citrus is a little off. More astringent at the end. Light bodied. Moderate carbonation.
Feb 26, 2017Reviewed by Billolick from New York
3.67/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bomber, w/o freshness info to be had
Pours typical almond amber, off white cap, leaves moderate lace
Resiny hop nose.
Resin infused hopped up IPA, decent hop package, but not overly fresh, floral or tropical...we are talking resiny...not my favorite...lots of more pleasant options out there.
Dec 25, 2016Pours typical almond amber, off white cap, leaves moderate lace
Resiny hop nose.
Resin infused hopped up IPA, decent hop package, but not overly fresh, floral or tropical...we are talking resiny...not my favorite...lots of more pleasant options out there.
Reviewed by JonCorbett from Canada (BC)
3.54/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Appearance: Deep golden amber that is mostly clear, just a touch of haziness. The head was not overly impressive, and retention and lacing were moderate.
Aromatics: A nice citrus supported by an earthy and pine-like hops scent with a hint of sweet maltiness in the background.
Taste: Has a very nice hops character with the citrus showing through. I don't get much of the malt, but it is there at the beginning before the hops takes over. Moderate earthy bitter finish that kind of lingers like over roasted coffee.
Feel: Crisp, dry, and snappy with a decent carbonation.
Overall: A good example of an IPA where the hops is supported fairly good by the malts. Even though the finish is not typical of IPAs I have had, overall it was decent.
Jun 14, 2016Aromatics: A nice citrus supported by an earthy and pine-like hops scent with a hint of sweet maltiness in the background.
Taste: Has a very nice hops character with the citrus showing through. I don't get much of the malt, but it is there at the beginning before the hops takes over. Moderate earthy bitter finish that kind of lingers like over roasted coffee.
Feel: Crisp, dry, and snappy with a decent carbonation.
Overall: A good example of an IPA where the hops is supported fairly good by the malts. Even though the finish is not typical of IPAs I have had, overall it was decent.
Eraser IPA from Rough Draft Brewing Company
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
99 ratings
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