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Chupacabras Pale Ale
Cucapá Brewing Company
- From:
- Cucapá Brewing Company
- Mexico
- Style:
- English Pale Ale
Ranked #138 - ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- 79
Ranked #26,698 - Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 15.99%
- Reviews:
- 142
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 12, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 24, 2008
- Wants:
- 9
- Gots:
- 33
No description / notes.
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Ratings by WVbeergeek:
Reviewed by WVbeergeek from West Virginia
3.5/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a caramel clear amber hue with a thin fizzy light khaki head, minimal speckled lacing. When I popped the cap it was bit of a gusher. Smell has some earthy hop notes but nothing that jumps out at me in the hop department. Flavor has a blend of dark brown sugars and earthy slightly floral hops, a bit of harsh bitterness in the finish to round the sweetness out. I'm glad I didn't get the whole sixer, why is Tomme Arthur giving shout outs to these guys. Maybe because they have carbonation issues as well. Mouthfeel has light carbonation a bit of oily resins left on the palate. Drinkbility overall, is decent not my favorite pale ale I've come across, but it's decent.
Jul 18, 2010More User Ratings:
Reviewed by hbeyliss from Mexico
3.8/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
I've tried Pale Ales before and some of them are excessively bitter, this one is very well balanced, it has a nice aroma and overall is real good. Recommended Mexican beer.
Jun 15, 2019Rated by Mclusal from Colombia
3/5 rDev -12.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -12.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
B56
Oct 13, 2018Rated by qrazvan from Romania
3.5/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A pleasant, well made pale ale, but more conservative and not so much on the hoppy side.
Mar 10, 2018Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
3.56/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12oz bottle, served at Club de la Cerveza in Playa del Carmen. Poured into a pint glass; pour is a darker orange-caramel body with a one finger white head, good retention. No lacing. Darker than expected for a pale ale, but still. Smells of rich English caramel, floral and resinous aromas, touch of grapefruit. Flavour is an interesting mix of hop and malt with caramel, toffee, grapefruit, and floral notes. Touch of resin finishes things off. Mouthfeel is medium-lighter bodied, appropriately carbonated, nice complexity and depth although without much hoppy punch to it.
Jan 08, 2017Reviewed by Bierliebhaber3 from Massachusetts
3.66/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.66/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
This beer is super carbonated. It actually foamed out of the bottle quite a bit when I opened it. When you actually are able to, it pours a light brown color (actually pretty dark for a pale ale) with a huge rocky white head. The body is somewhere between light and medium, but definitely on the heavy end for a pale ale. The smell is bready and a faintly citrusy lemon scent. It is very malty with a nice bready and fairly strong caramel flavor with a faint citrus aftertaste. It also has some pretty strong hop presence that gives it a pretty bitter aftertaste. Though classified as an English pale ale, I think this tastes more like a pale ale done in the style of SoCal with a little more malt presence. I am pleasantly surprised by this. I thought Mexico and craft beers an odd combination, but it’s actually pretty good if a little pedestrian and not quite as polished as some of the actual SoCal pales it emulates.
Jun 08, 2016Rated by CraftBeerRunner from California
3.78/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Solid APA style. Cabo, MX, Match 2016
Apr 02, 2016Reviewed by FLima from Brazil
3.29/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.29/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Amber color with a thin head with medium retention.
Light aroma with notes of papaya, some citrusy and bread malt.
Flavor is much more interesting and bolder. Notes of papaya, spices, American yeast, toasted malts, some pine and mild grapefruit. Dry and bitter aftertaste.
Light to medium body.
Good English Pale Ale. I meant it felt more English (its base) than American.
Aug 15, 2015Light aroma with notes of papaya, some citrusy and bread malt.
Flavor is much more interesting and bolder. Notes of papaya, spices, American yeast, toasted malts, some pine and mild grapefruit. Dry and bitter aftertaste.
Light to medium body.
Good English Pale Ale. I meant it felt more English (its base) than American.
Chupacabras Pale Ale from Cucapá Brewing Company
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
221 ratings
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