India Pale Ale
Westbrook Brewing Co.
- From:
- Westbrook Brewing Co.
- South Carolina, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #833 - ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #11,349 - Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 8.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 270
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 13, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 04, 2011
- Wants:
- 109
- Gots:
- 279
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
A base of pale, Munich, and Carapils malts is just enough to contain the massive hop flavor and aroma packed into this highly drinkable IPA. A blend of four American hop varieties is added four times in the kettle and twice in the fermentor for a complex and layered hop experience. Best served at 45-50˚F in a tulip or English style pint glass.
65 IBU
65 IBU
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Ratings by Alieniloquium:
Reviewed by Alieniloquium from Florida
3.33/5 rDev -17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.33/5 rDev -17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
On tap at the brewery. Served in a taster.
Appearance - Clear golden orange. Nice white head and great lacing.
Smell - Hop pellet aroma. Like smelling hops before adding them to the boil. Kinda raw. Caramel malt and a hint of sweetness.
Taste - Blend of hops. Citrus, grapefruit, pine. All sorts of hop flavors. Toasty malt bill. Very biscuity. Even a hint of rye, but maybe that's a lingering flavor from my last beer. Slight bitter finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium body. Medium bitterness. Well balancbalanced and never too sweet.
Overall - Decent IPA, but nothing stands out.
May 25, 2013Appearance - Clear golden orange. Nice white head and great lacing.
Smell - Hop pellet aroma. Like smelling hops before adding them to the boil. Kinda raw. Caramel malt and a hint of sweetness.
Taste - Blend of hops. Citrus, grapefruit, pine. All sorts of hop flavors. Toasty malt bill. Very biscuity. Even a hint of rye, but maybe that's a lingering flavor from my last beer. Slight bitter finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium body. Medium bitterness. Well balancbalanced and never too sweet.
Overall - Decent IPA, but nothing stands out.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.86/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.86/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Copenhagen 28/12 2018. 35,5 cl can from Kihosk, Sønder Boulevard, Kbh. V.. Very detailed can with some elephants lumbering around and hops getting blown around by the wind.
Pours slightly hazy, golden yellow with medium-sized white head. Settles as very thin layer of foam covering the surface of the beer and crawling up the side of the glass. Massive lacing.
Aroma is intense and of fruity decay. Fermented sweet exotic fruit meeting strong citric odor of Grape fruit and citrus. A little perfumed in a twisted way. Reminds most of all of a DIPA without the booziness.
Medium strong carbonation. Medium thick, soft texture.
Flavor has a fairly strong sweetness followed by prominent bitterness. Aftertaste is sweet with lighter bitter overtones.
A bit heavy for an Indian Pale Ale - but with a lot of flavor of character.
Nov 13, 2025Pours slightly hazy, golden yellow with medium-sized white head. Settles as very thin layer of foam covering the surface of the beer and crawling up the side of the glass. Massive lacing.
Aroma is intense and of fruity decay. Fermented sweet exotic fruit meeting strong citric odor of Grape fruit and citrus. A little perfumed in a twisted way. Reminds most of all of a DIPA without the booziness.
Medium strong carbonation. Medium thick, soft texture.
Flavor has a fairly strong sweetness followed by prominent bitterness. Aftertaste is sweet with lighter bitter overtones.
A bit heavy for an Indian Pale Ale - but with a lot of flavor of character.
Reviewed by Sinfull from New York
3.59/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Amber color. Big, off-white head. Tropical fruits, pine, and some weird notes, which I wasn't able to classify. Taste is all about hoppy bitterness with some malt in the background. Didn't impress me at all.
Jul 30, 2025Rated by FRANKHAZE from Florida
4.23/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Very nicee
Mar 27, 2025
Reviewed by barnzy78 from Illinois
4.23/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
12oz can, date stamped 10/26/23
I’ve always wanted to try a Westbrook beer - finally got some! Gotta go with the IPA.
L: hazy tangerine colored ale; tall & frothy ivory colored head cakes foam along the top of the glass as it fades
S: caramelized grain, bread crust, grapefruit pith, earthy pine
T: bread crust, caramel, nutty grain, earthy pine, grapefruit pith & zest, faint pineapple and nectarine in the backgrounds
F: fuller body, creamy yet resinous with hops sticking to the palate, bitter finish
O: does not disappoint
Mar 25, 2024I’ve always wanted to try a Westbrook beer - finally got some! Gotta go with the IPA.
L: hazy tangerine colored ale; tall & frothy ivory colored head cakes foam along the top of the glass as it fades
S: caramelized grain, bread crust, grapefruit pith, earthy pine
T: bread crust, caramel, nutty grain, earthy pine, grapefruit pith & zest, faint pineapple and nectarine in the backgrounds
F: fuller body, creamy yet resinous with hops sticking to the palate, bitter finish
O: does not disappoint
Rated by JiNC from Colorado
4.31/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.31/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Hoppy and smooth... lots of flavor from sip to swallow. Very pleasant. Surprisingly hazy, but def not a hazy ipa.
Oct 10, 2023
Reviewed by BigGold from Mississippi
4.33/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Had Westbrook's IPA poured from 12-oz. can, bottom stamped (apparently) canned on "12/13/21," into willi becher.
Pours hazy melon-gold with 2-finger, creamy off-white head, with good retention, leaving thick, splotchy lace down the glass. Aroma of grassy hops off pour, and then classic but sweet grapefruit, with a little resin and a little more malt joining as warms, along with sweet stone fruits and pineapple. Begins grapefruit and bitter, resinous hops, which briefly reveal mild malt body, then hop bite grows huge and overwhelming, allowing malt presence to continue but only as a nice creamy body, before finally relenting enough for some sweet stone fruits to show, with all leading into a classic bitter, resinous, grapefruit finish.
This starts like what one used to expect from the flagship IPA of every leading brewery: grapefruit and bite, but then slips in some (in 2011) avant-garde stone and tropical fruits, before the big, bitter finish. Westbrook's IPA has been around a while but still might chart the best course forward between all of the trendy IPA styles . . . .
Jun 30, 2022Pours hazy melon-gold with 2-finger, creamy off-white head, with good retention, leaving thick, splotchy lace down the glass. Aroma of grassy hops off pour, and then classic but sweet grapefruit, with a little resin and a little more malt joining as warms, along with sweet stone fruits and pineapple. Begins grapefruit and bitter, resinous hops, which briefly reveal mild malt body, then hop bite grows huge and overwhelming, allowing malt presence to continue but only as a nice creamy body, before finally relenting enough for some sweet stone fruits to show, with all leading into a classic bitter, resinous, grapefruit finish.
This starts like what one used to expect from the flagship IPA of every leading brewery: grapefruit and bite, but then slips in some (in 2011) avant-garde stone and tropical fruits, before the big, bitter finish. Westbrook's IPA has been around a while but still might chart the best course forward between all of the trendy IPA styles . . . .
Reviewed by RaulMondesi from California
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This one is a sac bunt when it’s 2-2 in the bottom off the ninth and the runner goes to third with one out. It’s not Babe Ruth smashing a bomb to win it and then he smashes a hot dog, a glass of bourbon, and, well, you know what else. Westbrook just does it and they do it well.
Nov 22, 2021
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