Tropical Beer Hug
Goose Island Beer Co.

Tropical Beer HugTropical Beer Hug
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From:
Goose Island Beer Co.
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
Ranked #2,035
ABV:
9.9%
Score:
85
Ranked #21,021
Avg:
3.77 | pDev: 10.88%
Reviews:
92
Ratings:
250
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sunday at 09:05 PM
Added:
Mar 25, 2021
Wants:
  6
Gots:
  31
This double dry-hopped double IPA grabs you with a big tropical beer hug—bursting with hops, hops and more hops. Notes of mango, pineapple, peach, and citrus are followed up with dank pine notes. Like a bear hug... but from a beer.
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Ratings by MonkeyPilates:
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Rated by MonkeyPilates from Minnesota

3/5  rDev -20.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Mar 12, 2022
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by White_Lotus from New York

3/5  rDev -20.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
I've read the reviews, and I can't say that I disagree with any of them. But I will point out a few notes on this beer. First, it is dry. I mean significantly more dry than what you would expect from a fruity IPA. Second, at the $2.79 that I paid for a 19.2 ounce can, four of these clock in right around what a six pack of comparable fruity IPA's costs. So at 9.9% abv (and I know this is Beer Advocate, not Alcohol Advocate), you certainly get what you pay for. It's a 3 across the board.
Sunday at 09:05 PM
 
Rated: 3.99 by beersampler6 from Michigan

Mar 20, 2024
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Reviewed by FLima from Brazil

3.42/5  rDev -9.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Golden color with a thin head.
Nice tropical aroma with notes of mango, lychees and pineapple.
Flavor with notes of pineapple, booze, grapefruit, toasted malts, wheat and white fruits. Dry and bitter aftertaste.
Light to medium body with appropriate carbonation. Alcohol of 9.9% was hard to hide behind its relatively lower body.
Booze Double IPA with a great tropical aroma. Compared to malt liquors, it sure beats them over cost benefit and outright flavor. But lags behind the IPA crowd on balance.
Mar 12, 2024
 
Rated: 2.92 by Thanatosbat777 from Georgia

Feb 22, 2024
 
Rated: 3.93 by ImperatorScab from Tennessee

Feb 21, 2024
 
Rated: 3.85 by RalphStanley34 from French Polynesia

Jan 19, 2024
 
Rated: 3.74 by rorjets from Connecticut

Jan 18, 2024
 
Rated: 3.73 by Rollmeaway2loadout from Illinois

Jan 15, 2024
 
Rated: 3.52 by robotic_being from Illinois

Jan 15, 2024
 
Rated: 3.52 by Can_if_you_can from Minnesota

Dec 27, 2023
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Reviewed by FreePal88

2.75/5  rDev -27.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
The mix of "tropical" hop flavors, bitterness and general booziness just doesn't agree with my palate. This is the only IPA I've had that made me have to fight with my gag reflex to finish the can. It's not disgusting or especially hard to drink or anything, but... if they just went all in on the bitterness I could down it without a problem, but something about the way they try to cover it up the booze with sweetness makes it tough to drink.
It's not an adjunct lager and it seems to have a fairly high rating here just on the basis of that fact. But in many ways I feel like this sort of malt liquor IPA is more of a bastardization of IPAs than a mediocre AAL is a bastardization of pilsners.
Almost always leads to a killer hangover, for me.
It does have 10% abv though, so it serves a purpose.
Nov 22, 2023
 
Rated: 3.2 by tgdavis from Tennessee

Nov 20, 2023
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Reviewed by ILikeIpaz from Florida

3.06/5  rDev -18.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This is the Steel Reserve of IPA’s. Nice smell and flavors, you have a moment of surprise, maybe this will be my new favorite, nice mouthfeel at first, then the bitterness lingers too long resulting in a thick and syrupy conclusion. At $4 for a big can, 9.9%, a Stairway to the Dark Side
Nov 10, 2023
 
Rated: 3.67 by Taenim from Maine

Nov 02, 2023
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Rated by acurtis from New Jersey

3.64/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Draft at Canoe Brook Country Club for the annual NJ Celebration of Golf awards dinner
Oct 27, 2023
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Reviewed by mooseisloose from Florida

3.78/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Picked up a few tall boys at the convenience mart. Let’s give it a spin. Popping the top is lots of grapefruit and passion fruit. Pours into my oversized pint with a massive head that stays up forever. Taste through the thick head is syrupy mouthfeel with a sweet yet biting hop bite. Bananas, grapefruit and some pine present. Hop bite get more bitter and builds to a clingy bitter pine tar finish. ABV of 9.9% is well hidden under the hops. A nice drinker for your IPA aficionado looking for a quick buzz.
Oct 26, 2023
 
Rated: 3.77 by cd34 from Illinois

Oct 25, 2023
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Reviewed by Oktoberfest from Ohio

3.42/5  rDev -9.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Another cheap, high ABV beer kicked out by a known craft brewer and shipped to a gas station near you. Most seem inoffensive and scarcely remarkable. This one falls on the higher end of that scale.
Oct 24, 2023
Tropical Beer Hug from Goose Island Beer Co.
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 250 ratings