Unsessionable
Revolution Brewing

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From:
Revolution Brewing
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
Ranked #70
ABV:
10%
Score:
97
Ranked #676
Avg:
4.37 | pDev: 8.7%
Reviews:
142
Ratings:
1,099
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sunday at 04:11 PM
Added:
Sep 23, 2014
Wants:
  231
Gots:
  194
A huge Imperial IPA, and our first specialty brew in can.
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Ratings by SCZ:
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Rated by SCZ from Illinois

4.75/5  rDev +8.7%

Dec 15, 2014
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4.12 by Gkruszewski from New York

Sunday at 04:11 PM
 
Rated: 3.6 by Oktoberfest from Ohio

Saturday at 05:43 AM
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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
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.
Saturday at 04:33 AM
 
Rated: 4.27 by HabaJohnTheReal1 from Illinois

Mar 05, 2024
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Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden

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, 2024
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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
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, 2023
 
Rated: 3.8 by blissfulNemo from Michigan

Jun 22, 2023
 
Rated: 4.25 by 4DAloveofSTOUT from Illinois

May 30, 2023
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Rated by soxfanben from Illinois

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, 2023
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Rated by TheWaySheGoes from Illinois

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, 2023
 
Rated: 4.5 by TODDRESSEL1 from Indiana

Mar 18, 2023
 
Rated: 4.19 by craigbelly from Iowa

May 23, 2022
 
Rated: 4.43 by Giggy from Michigan

Apr 26, 2022
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Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona

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, 2022
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Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota

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, 2022
 
Rated: 4.28 by jera1350 from Minnesota

Apr 08, 2022
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Reviewed by KS_Augsburg from Illinois

4.66/5  rDev +6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This is an amazing example: strong, powerful but not overpowering. High ABV, but not to the extreme. Very hoppy, well balanced fruit, floral, herbal, bitter notes. Prime example of an Imperial IPA, more traditional - not hazy, not milkshake, no added donuts, no added lactose, etc. etc. Just a very very good, strong IPA.
Mar 22, 2022
 
Rated: 3.59 by TMoney2591 from Illinois

Jan 26, 2022
 
Rated: 4.34 by unclekeith from Alaska

Feb 27, 2020
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Beer rating: 97 out of 100 with 1099 ratings