Wreckagemaster
Solemn Oath Brewery

WreckagemasterWreckagemaster
Beer Geek Stats | Print Shelf Talker
From:
Solemn Oath Brewery
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
8.5%
Score:
91
Avg:
4.06 | pDev: 8.62%
Reviews:
18
Ratings:
175
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 13, 2021
Added:
Jul 21, 2013
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  15
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews. | Log in to view more ratings + sorting options.
Ratings by BeerOps:
Photo of BeerOps
Rated by BeerOps from Illinois

4/5  rDev -1.5%

Jul 28, 2013
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.5 by TMoney2591 from Illinois

Dec 13, 2021
Photo of GuyFawkes
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois

3.8/5  rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Drank 4/20/14 on draft @ Fischman's.

Murky orange/yellow hue.

Bright white head; thick lace.

Pineapple & fresh marijuana nose.

Medium thick mouthfeel.

Pine, pineapple & slight grapefruit taste; an overly bitter finish.

Good not great.
Dec 30, 2019
 
Rated: 4.25 by Riik3 from Illinois

Dec 30, 2017
 
Rated: 3.6 by Mikey2333 from Iowa

Jul 31, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by florisj135 from Virginia

Jun 01, 2017
Photo of smcolw
Reviewed by smcolw from Massachusetts

3.53/5  rDev -13.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Modest head which leaves only a couple of spots on the glass. The liquid is nearly clear with a deep gold color.

Mild and predictable aroma, maybe too much so for a DIPA.

Lightly sweet with berry overtones. The hop is more pronounced while the alcohol is muted for the style. Decent body with a higher level of carbonation. Long bitter aftertaste. Overall, fairly middle-of-the-road flavor wise. Not bad but also not complicated.
May 21, 2017
 
Rated: 3.89 by Abe_Froman from Massachusetts

May 13, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by Gkruszewski from New York

Apr 29, 2017
Photo of 1000lbgrizzly
Reviewed by 1000lbgrizzly from Illinois

4.15/5  rDev +2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Mostly clear golden body with a white head, moderately sized bubbles rise in streams. The label is so frickin' sleek: subdued yet shiny coloring with a dude destroying his drum kit with tools. F yes, +.25. Nose offers juicy tropical fruits like orange, papaya, grapefruit, mango, even outright added sugar, as well as a very slight pine note, that altogether offers a faux-sweetness and true bitterness that I could melt into. Tempering that is malt almost like wheat, but a bit heartier. The flavor still has those ripe fruit notes but more muddled, harder to pick out individually. The malt seems more toasted now as well, but still far from that awful bread crust/orange rind abomination of contemporary IPAs. It has a lick of sweetness and a bite of bitterness, but neither really punches your balls and they end up fighting like a preschooler vs a kindergartner; harmless but great entertainment. Quite the opposite of that, the 8.5% alcohol sneaks up and stabs you in the jugular before you know what happened; it was so well hidden that I forgot to even mention it until I read another review and edited this. Nice. Full-bodied and kinda slick, this beer puts its foot down before you guzzle it.
I'm glad this label wasn't disguising a dud; this beer had great, clear hop notes in good variety, a good hierarchy between hops and malt (and bitterness/sweetness), and was all around delicious but didn't make me feel guilty drinking it while eating big flavors as well (all judgement was passed down pre-mastication, btw). Score one for Midwestern IPA's.
Apr 06, 2017
Photo of jzlyo
Reviewed by jzlyo from Iowa

3.73/5  rDev -8.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Aroma is pine/danky hops, citrus and a hint of honey. The flavor is citrus, grapefruit, mildly nutty, malts, fruit and a mix of bitter, off-dry and slightly tart in the finish.
Mar 10, 2017
 
Rated: 4.5 by YalovaIA from Iowa

Mar 03, 2017
 
Rated: 4.1 by drstalker from Illinois

Mar 02, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by BarrelAgedG from California

Feb 11, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by beagleyx2 from Illinois

Dec 12, 2016
Photo of MikeyBadnews
Reviewed by MikeyBadnews from Massachusetts

4.3/5  rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Wreckage Master sounds like a silly late 1980's independent wrestling star, an Ultimate Warrior clone, but likely more flabby, probably works as a night shift manager at Staples..

The bottle indicates Heavy Metal, a rock drummer with a platinum silver and onyx label. Perhaps there's a deathcore/grindcore connection that I'm not aware of.

I think the bottle ran me $9 so it has it's work cut out for it to be a worthy purchase.

So what would I anticipate from something named WRECKAGE MASTER? I think dark, I think harsh, a think biting. A name more befitting an 11% ABV Russian Imperial, so to read I'm about to drink a tropical, sugary and malty DIPA makes me think the labeling and naming was off. The claims of "assertive bitterness" at least lead me to believe I have a challenge ahead of me.

Looks good, the pour is what you'd expect, golden with some darker syrup dropped in. Minimal head retreats to a yeasty bio froth.

The smell is more Billy Ocean than Iron Maiden. A nice tropical porridge of crushed pineapples, tangerines and liquid sugar.

Taste follows, tropical, fruity, sweet. Some good balance here between the sweetness of the malt and the fruitiness of the hops.

Washes down pretty easy too. You'd never guess this was 8.5% because there's no warming alcohol, no abrasiveness in fact as it warms it almost goes sweeter. Terrific balance again, you lose the defined tastes and they all kind of mix together well but not spectacularly.

This is pretty damn good. It doesn't reach world class as it's far too subdued especially for an DIPA.

Recommended

Cheers!
Nov 19, 2016
 
Rated: 4.02 by Beerasaurus from Virginia

Oct 16, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by Zuidman from Illinois

Sep 09, 2016
 
Rated: 3.25 by Whiskeydeez from Kansas

Sep 08, 2016
 
Rated: 3.86 by reebtaerG from Maryland

Aug 18, 2016
Wreckagemaster from Solemn Oath Brewery
Beer rating: 91 out of 100 with 175 ratings