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Finder
Shipyard Brewing Company
- From:
- Shipyard Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- New England IPA
Ranked #2,871 - ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #17,707 - Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 11.43%
- Reviews:
- 33
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 19, 2024
- Added:
- Jun 25, 2017
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 40
Finder is the result of our ongoing search for new and innovative ways to brew the most flavorful styles of beer.
This mouthwatering New England Style IPA has a creamy mouthfeel. The Citra, Mosaic and El Dorado hops create a drinkable, juicy ale with flavors of grapefruit, orange peel and lemongrass. Finder finishes with a slight bitterness and notes of tropical sweetness.
You’ve just found your new favorite IPA!
This mouthwatering New England Style IPA has a creamy mouthfeel. The Citra, Mosaic and El Dorado hops create a drinkable, juicy ale with flavors of grapefruit, orange peel and lemongrass. Finder finishes with a slight bitterness and notes of tropical sweetness.
You’ve just found your new favorite IPA!
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Reviewed by glee70
1.12/5 rDev -70.9%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1.12/5 rDev -70.9%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
I only drink IPAs and have had some pretty bad ones, but this is possibly the worst I've ever had. It says "hazy" and "juicy", but it tastes nothing like any other hazy/juicy IPA I've had.
Jun 19, 2023Reviewed by tekstr1der from New Hampshire
3.96/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Tasty stuff but in today's world of NEIPAs, this one's pretty mediocre. Worth trying this one and its big bro double version. Shipyard has some good brews and is pretty consistently decent, but a bit underwhelming this one.
Jun 13, 2023Reviewed by Cathartes from Massachusetts
3.17/5 rDev -17.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.17/5 rDev -17.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Acclimated to 47°F and poured into an IPA glass.
Pours a somewhat hazy medium dark yellow gold, perhaps honey, with a 2.5 finger frothy white head.
Initial aroma is strong, dominated by citrus and pine, with a note of strong alcohol as well. Combined, these 3 form almost a floor cleaner smell, not a negative, just a note. Smelling again there's a sort of green to it. After agitating it becomes smoother.
Initial taste is big, with a hoppiness in the middle and a grassy bitterness settling in the back of the mouth and tongue. There's a sweetness present. I get juicy, fruity notes, as well as specifically a little mango, and grapefruit which is unsurprising. The bitterness builds with any beer but I'm noticing it particularly strongly with this one.
Mouthfeel is somewhere between smooth/silky and average, not amazing but not bad at all, it doesn't really do anything special in the mouth if I'm honest. Carbonation is decent.
Don't think I will but again, nothing against it but I just didn't love it, sorry shipyard.
May 27, 2023Pours a somewhat hazy medium dark yellow gold, perhaps honey, with a 2.5 finger frothy white head.
Initial aroma is strong, dominated by citrus and pine, with a note of strong alcohol as well. Combined, these 3 form almost a floor cleaner smell, not a negative, just a note. Smelling again there's a sort of green to it. After agitating it becomes smoother.
Initial taste is big, with a hoppiness in the middle and a grassy bitterness settling in the back of the mouth and tongue. There's a sweetness present. I get juicy, fruity notes, as well as specifically a little mango, and grapefruit which is unsurprising. The bitterness builds with any beer but I'm noticing it particularly strongly with this one.
Mouthfeel is somewhere between smooth/silky and average, not amazing but not bad at all, it doesn't really do anything special in the mouth if I'm honest. Carbonation is decent.
Don't think I will but again, nothing against it but I just didn't love it, sorry shipyard.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Built for warmth, sun and a palate for the citrus, Shipyard Brewing embraces the full breadth of flavor from Citra and El Dorado hops for a taste that'll have the tongue basting in the sun any time of the year.
Pale peachy gold, Finder comes with a frothy ivory stained cap and a firm but reasonable haze. As the hazy ale swoons the senses, it does so with a radiant perfume of branch ripe citrus, candied tropical fruit and a soft herbal complement. And as the malts roll onto the tongue, they carry a cereal sweetness with hints of honey, caramel and bread crust.
It does't take long for the hops to command the middle palate as the malt sweetness slowly fades and the flavors of racy tangerine, red grapefruit and mango bring a juicy flavor that eventually transitions to a soft and herbal bitterness seemingly of verbena, light spruce and grasses, tea and hemp.
Medium bodied and malty-dry, the ale finishes crisper than the average hazy ale but juicier than more bitter and drier IPA. Caught between is what allows Finder to be both radiant in flavor but crisp in mouthfeel- perfect for those beachy spring days at SeaDog Brewing on Treasure Island, Florida.
Apr 19, 2023Pale peachy gold, Finder comes with a frothy ivory stained cap and a firm but reasonable haze. As the hazy ale swoons the senses, it does so with a radiant perfume of branch ripe citrus, candied tropical fruit and a soft herbal complement. And as the malts roll onto the tongue, they carry a cereal sweetness with hints of honey, caramel and bread crust.
It does't take long for the hops to command the middle palate as the malt sweetness slowly fades and the flavors of racy tangerine, red grapefruit and mango bring a juicy flavor that eventually transitions to a soft and herbal bitterness seemingly of verbena, light spruce and grasses, tea and hemp.
Medium bodied and malty-dry, the ale finishes crisper than the average hazy ale but juicier than more bitter and drier IPA. Caught between is what allows Finder to be both radiant in flavor but crisp in mouthfeel- perfect for those beachy spring days at SeaDog Brewing on Treasure Island, Florida.
Reviewed by AlpacaAlpaca from New York
2.83/5 rDev -26.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.83/5 rDev -26.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
A transparent cash-in on a popular style, this beer is so amazingly bland that I couldn't tell you much about it at all. Does it taste like an NEIPA? I guess so. It checks that box and does nothing else.
Sep 30, 2019Reviewed by Zorro from California
3.36/5 rDev -12.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.36/5 rDev -12.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Cloudy orange with a off-white colored head. This is decidedly IPA Orange.
Smells strongly of citrus peels. Sticky resin smell and it smells more than a little like hemp oil. Lesser scents of pine and faintly of camphor.
Starts out sweet and earthy, certainly no IBU slap. Taste of pine and grapefruit. That is about it though this isn't that strongly flavored. Very mild ale.
Mouthfeel is OK.
Overall it is mild and easy to drink. I wouldn't refuse one if offered.
Jun 29, 2019Smells strongly of citrus peels. Sticky resin smell and it smells more than a little like hemp oil. Lesser scents of pine and faintly of camphor.
Starts out sweet and earthy, certainly no IBU slap. Taste of pine and grapefruit. That is about it though this isn't that strongly flavored. Very mild ale.
Mouthfeel is OK.
Overall it is mild and easy to drink. I wouldn't refuse one if offered.
Finder from Shipyard Brewing Company
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
134 ratings
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