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Unsessionable
Revolution Brewing
- From:
- Revolution Brewing
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 97
Ranked #672 - Avg:
- 4.37 | pDev: 8.7%
- Reviews:
- 143
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Thursday at 08:16 AM
- Added:
- Sep 23, 2014
- Wants:
- 231
- Gots:
- 194
A huge Imperial IPA, and our first specialty brew in can.
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Reviewed by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota
4.32/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
16 oz can filled 2/15/24 vigorously poured into a Duvel tulip glass.
L: SRM 4-5 Pours 99% clear soft golden caramel color with a 1" off white rocky creamy head that has excellent retention and eventually recedes to edge foam, low carbonation, medium sticky tight lacing with torn sheets and light bands.
S: Herbal hop notes, a wee bit dank, fairly floral, light fruit notes.
T: Sweet caramelized malts, a layered hop blend of sweet, fruity, bitter, and resinous, then caramelized malts again. There are notes of citrus, melon rind and light candy sweetness. It is gently sharp. Light alcohol with warming. It has a long resinous & tea finish that is gently tropical.
F: Brisk then broad feeling & medium-bodied with a medium length drying finish that drops off then lingers.
O: Surprisingly not intense. Just hoppy and lengthy. Not too heavy tasting or feeling and it is not complex. Very well balanced sweet & bitter long drying finish that is fairly clean. Easy to drink. It is world-class in its style.
Mar 20, 2024L: SRM 4-5 Pours 99% clear soft golden caramel color with a 1" off white rocky creamy head that has excellent retention and eventually recedes to edge foam, low carbonation, medium sticky tight lacing with torn sheets and light bands.
S: Herbal hop notes, a wee bit dank, fairly floral, light fruit notes.
T: Sweet caramelized malts, a layered hop blend of sweet, fruity, bitter, and resinous, then caramelized malts again. There are notes of citrus, melon rind and light candy sweetness. It is gently sharp. Light alcohol with warming. It has a long resinous & tea finish that is gently tropical.
F: Brisk then broad feeling & medium-bodied with a medium length drying finish that drops off then lingers.
O: Surprisingly not intense. Just hoppy and lengthy. Not too heavy tasting or feeling and it is not complex. Very well balanced sweet & bitter long drying finish that is fairly clean. Easy to drink. It is world-class in its style.
Reviewed by LiquidAmber from Washington
4.35/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a fine, three finger head with great retention and solid lacing. Aroma of lightly caramel malt, citrus, piney and dank hops, orange, grapefruit, light pine and a little catty dankness. Flavor is caramel malt, citrus, piney and tropical fruit hops, pine, pineapple, tangerine and mixed tropical fruit. Fruit esters in the finish. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. Oh yeah, they had me at 100 IBUs and the aroma was in my home territory of caramel, citrus and pine. There are wisps of mixed, mostly tropical fruit throughout the taste and nice fruit esters in the finish. Very much West Coast in style, and maybe a little old fashioned with the caramel malt, but just what I'm looking for. Ends with the promised high alpha bitterness, but well balanced with plenty of herbal hop flavors to support it. Hop bill is a bit busy (kind of a "most wanted" of West Coast hop strains), but fits together well and the high ABV is well covered. I've been a fan of Revolution's stouts and wanted to see what they could do with an IPA; I'm equally pleased.
Mar 16, 2024Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden
4.76/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.76/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Pours a semi clear amber with fluffy head.
Smell is fruity and a bit sweet. Notes of pine, grapefruit, peach, caramel and black tea with spicy and sweet hints.
Taste is fruity and intense with a powerful bitterness and sweet and boozy hints. Notes of pine, grapefruit, orange, peach, tea and caramel with some spicy hints.
Mouthfeel is full, chewy, sticky and qwell carbonated.
Overall, a fantastic punch in the mouth of a TIPA. Intense and belligerent.
Feb 24, 2024Smell is fruity and a bit sweet. Notes of pine, grapefruit, peach, caramel and black tea with spicy and sweet hints.
Taste is fruity and intense with a powerful bitterness and sweet and boozy hints. Notes of pine, grapefruit, orange, peach, tea and caramel with some spicy hints.
Mouthfeel is full, chewy, sticky and qwell carbonated.
Overall, a fantastic punch in the mouth of a TIPA. Intense and belligerent.
Reviewed by Blogjackets from Ohio
4.28/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a pint can, the body is an opaque brown-orange. Good initial head and solid lacing throughout the tasting. Nice appearance.
A pineapple forward nose and a melange of hoppy goodness. This beer has a kitchen sink of hops.
Taste up front is bitter hop bite later balanced somewhat by a sturdy malt backbone. Despite the initial bite, the bitterness quickly retreats. No sign of the high ABV.
Carbonation is good. The mouthfeel is smooth and unexpectedly dries up nicely.
At 10% ABV and 100 IBUs, one might view this beer as extreme. A fair comp might be to Resin by Sixpoint (8.1% and 103 IBUs) given similar stats, but this beer is quite balanced (though still listing to bitter) and is very drinkable. Likely for fans of bitter beer only.
Jul 23, 2023A pineapple forward nose and a melange of hoppy goodness. This beer has a kitchen sink of hops.
Taste up front is bitter hop bite later balanced somewhat by a sturdy malt backbone. Despite the initial bite, the bitterness quickly retreats. No sign of the high ABV.
Carbonation is good. The mouthfeel is smooth and unexpectedly dries up nicely.
At 10% ABV and 100 IBUs, one might view this beer as extreme. A fair comp might be to Resin by Sixpoint (8.1% and 103 IBUs) given similar stats, but this beer is quite balanced (though still listing to bitter) and is very drinkable. Likely for fans of bitter beer only.
Rated by soxfanben from Illinois
4.85/5 rDev +11%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.85/5 rDev +11%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
This beer is currently helping me to sustain my will to live. Hints of fried chicken, caramel, and rice whiskey.
Apr 02, 2023Rated by TheWaySheGoes from Illinois
4.31/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Taste and look are fantastic, old school, love this old school flavor bomb.
Mar 20, 2023Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona
4.18/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours clear golden color with a 1 finger white head. Smell is pine ,oranges,grapefruit and caramel malts. Taste has grape fruit rind pine cone hops with some palate wrecking hops also some floral hoppy sweetness a good mix all in a good way, This is an IPA from 12 - 15 years ago Mouth feel bitter with pine and citrus hop rind, smoothed out with sweet caramel malts. Loved it
Apr 17, 2022Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
3.81/5 rDev -12.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.81/5 rDev -12.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
My 23rd review of a Revolution beer & it won’t be my last (unless I stop a semi tomorrow). 16 oz. can & the first Revolution I bought at my local here in MN. Woohoo!
The pour is like old-school IPA porn a sharp, wistful gold clearer than Charlize Theron’s complexion. The nose is bitter pine, hopefully mirrored in what I’m about to ingest.
Unsessionable sounds like a challenge. The taste is indeed full of north woods pine along with serious throat-clearing firewater & plenty of tropical fruit but more citrus than…NE IPA. Juicy might be more accurate & as a taste, not a genre. Caramel malt before a harsh, welcome bitterness cleans up the joint. Thick for an IPA & despite the big ABV it is, dare I say, a brew I could have more than one of.
This is lovely. It doesn’t quite reach the seats but it’s definitely off the wall. Very good brew.
Apr 13, 2022The pour is like old-school IPA porn a sharp, wistful gold clearer than Charlize Theron’s complexion. The nose is bitter pine, hopefully mirrored in what I’m about to ingest.
Unsessionable sounds like a challenge. The taste is indeed full of north woods pine along with serious throat-clearing firewater & plenty of tropical fruit but more citrus than…NE IPA. Juicy might be more accurate & as a taste, not a genre. Caramel malt before a harsh, welcome bitterness cleans up the joint. Thick for an IPA & despite the big ABV it is, dare I say, a brew I could have more than one of.
This is lovely. It doesn’t quite reach the seats but it’s definitely off the wall. Very good brew.
Unsessionable from Revolution Brewing
Beer rating:
97 out of
100 with
1102 ratings
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