Australian IPA
Colonial Brewing Company
- From:
- Colonial Brewing Company
- Australia
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 13.44%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 10, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 31, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CareLessBrew from Australia
3.55/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A good time to have this one, I hear Colonial have a few new brews on at GABS Melbourne this weekend. Also, keen to try their new Autumn Ale.
I.P.A. Australia @cbco_
IPA
6.5%
The all-Australian hops IPA is a hazy golden amber colour. It has a proud white head that reduces faintly. It is pretty easy to give a scent in a word here…Pineapples. Lots of tropical fruit in the aroma and soft pine. After I spent some more time with it, I has getting ripe mango as well. The aromas are pretty standard but pronounced.
Hoppy and bold flavours here. A resiny bitterness is prominent in the taste without being too dominant. The fruity notes are more present in the back end before the aftertaste. This gives a slight sweet feel. Lots of flavour and all things an IPA should be. A medium body and not overly carbonated. A work horse of beer but not the Rolls-Royce.
Cheers
May 26, 2022I.P.A. Australia @cbco_
IPA
6.5%
The all-Australian hops IPA is a hazy golden amber colour. It has a proud white head that reduces faintly. It is pretty easy to give a scent in a word here…Pineapples. Lots of tropical fruit in the aroma and soft pine. After I spent some more time with it, I has getting ripe mango as well. The aromas are pretty standard but pronounced.
Hoppy and bold flavours here. A resiny bitterness is prominent in the taste without being too dominant. The fruity notes are more present in the back end before the aftertaste. This gives a slight sweet feel. Lots of flavour and all things an IPA should be. A medium body and not overly carbonated. A work horse of beer but not the Rolls-Royce.
Cheers
Reviewed by shambeano from Australia
4/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
375 ml can, best before date 06/04/2020. Poured into a tulip.
Look: Pours a cloudy orangy amber, with about 2 cm of fluffy white head. Head has good retention and hangs around for ages. Looks good.
Smell: quite fruity, getting a lot of citrus, stone fruit, some tropical fruit in there, a touch spicy and grassy coming through at the end.
Taste: Fruity straight up, theres a general tropical fruitiness that I can't quite put my finger on, maybe mango, followed by grassiness and a little pine and orange rind. Slight bitterness followed by a more obvious mango flavour at the end. Very pleasant.
Feel: Medium bodied, but fills the palate well. Tingly carbonation, bitterness rounds things out and is not aggressive.
Overall: Very nice. I would definitely have again.
Sep 23, 2019Look: Pours a cloudy orangy amber, with about 2 cm of fluffy white head. Head has good retention and hangs around for ages. Looks good.
Smell: quite fruity, getting a lot of citrus, stone fruit, some tropical fruit in there, a touch spicy and grassy coming through at the end.
Taste: Fruity straight up, theres a general tropical fruitiness that I can't quite put my finger on, maybe mango, followed by grassiness and a little pine and orange rind. Slight bitterness followed by a more obvious mango flavour at the end. Very pleasant.
Feel: Medium bodied, but fills the palate well. Tingly carbonation, bitterness rounds things out and is not aggressive.
Overall: Very nice. I would definitely have again.
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
4.32/5 rDev +16.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
4.32/5 rDev +16.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Well it’s been a while; A uni-crunch-time forced stay of absence from reviewing anything or getting a decent night’s sleep, but I’m back and ready to fire on all cylinders! (plus I’ve banked up a few new beers in the fridge that absolutely require my immediate nit-picking). First up: Colonial’s new core range brew: Australian IPA, made with 100% Aussie malt and hops. TBH I’m quite looking forward to this - if Colonial can do as well (if not better) than those scallywags at Pirate Life this’ll be my new fridge magnet. Without further ado (and apologies to Shakespeare) let’s tackle this brew.
Poured from a 375ml can where the entire lid lifts off (which I have previously expressed great admiration towards) into a Sierra Nevada US pint glass.
A: Cloudy amber body with a boisterous and foamy 2cm white head. Looks great! Exactly what the doctor [i.e. me] ordered, or would have ordered if I was standing at a bar and ordered a “delightful American-style IPA”. 8/10.
S: Sticky pineapple cake notes are dancing on my nose like they just don’t care, it’s not a hootenanny... more of a polka... still - nice aroma. Hints of lychee and papaya linger on in the background... so far this aroma is entirely like a beery tropical punch, and if such a thing as a ‘beery tropical punch’ existed I would no doubt like it. 9/10.
T: Piney hop notes upfront and are almost immediately assassinated by lychee/mango/papaya tropical hops, sugar glazed pineapples and a grainy character enter mid-palate. Finish is a slight grassy hop bitterness. That grainy character mid-palate ruins a little this is otherwise decent tropical hop driven beverage... (so close to Pirate Life IPA brilliance Colonial). 8/10.
M: Medium to heavy bodied with slight hop oils persistent and a medium carbonation. 8/10.
D: Not quite as grand as Pirate Life IPA (the light blue can - not the black IIPA behemoth) however I can certainly see me buying this on occasion as a better value prospect to the Pirate Life (which is more expensive and a smaller can at 355ml). I think this will go down as a good tropical flavour IPA during what will no doubt be a long (too LONG!) Brisbane summer... plus that entire lid can? Genius! Everyone should be copying that lid on their cans - nothing beats the convenience of drinking a tinnie inside a stubbie cooler and the open lid makes it even easier to chug down a cold one (note: Doc does not condone binge drinking). 10/10.
Food match: Thai Yam Huapli Thot (salad with deep-fried slices of banana blossom).
Oct 31, 2016Poured from a 375ml can where the entire lid lifts off (which I have previously expressed great admiration towards) into a Sierra Nevada US pint glass.
A: Cloudy amber body with a boisterous and foamy 2cm white head. Looks great! Exactly what the doctor [i.e. me] ordered, or would have ordered if I was standing at a bar and ordered a “delightful American-style IPA”. 8/10.
S: Sticky pineapple cake notes are dancing on my nose like they just don’t care, it’s not a hootenanny... more of a polka... still - nice aroma. Hints of lychee and papaya linger on in the background... so far this aroma is entirely like a beery tropical punch, and if such a thing as a ‘beery tropical punch’ existed I would no doubt like it. 9/10.
T: Piney hop notes upfront and are almost immediately assassinated by lychee/mango/papaya tropical hops, sugar glazed pineapples and a grainy character enter mid-palate. Finish is a slight grassy hop bitterness. That grainy character mid-palate ruins a little this is otherwise decent tropical hop driven beverage... (so close to Pirate Life IPA brilliance Colonial). 8/10.
M: Medium to heavy bodied with slight hop oils persistent and a medium carbonation. 8/10.
D: Not quite as grand as Pirate Life IPA (the light blue can - not the black IIPA behemoth) however I can certainly see me buying this on occasion as a better value prospect to the Pirate Life (which is more expensive and a smaller can at 355ml). I think this will go down as a good tropical flavour IPA during what will no doubt be a long (too LONG!) Brisbane summer... plus that entire lid can? Genius! Everyone should be copying that lid on their cans - nothing beats the convenience of drinking a tinnie inside a stubbie cooler and the open lid makes it even easier to chug down a cold one (note: Doc does not condone binge drinking). 10/10.
Food match: Thai Yam Huapli Thot (salad with deep-fried slices of banana blossom).
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