Happy Way IPA
Back Street Brewery & Lamppost Pizza
- From:
- Back Street Brewery & Lamppost Pizza
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 5.75%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 16, 2009
- Added:
- Jun 16, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Overlord from California
3.58/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Had at the Culver location of Lamppost pizza. I think I've been underappreciating this brewery, and allowing the disappointing Bayhawk to steer me away from local offerings.
Pours a familiar orange/amber with two or three inches of white foam. Ahh...looks like an IPA.
Smell is like a souped up Big Eye IPA. I'm not hop expert, but this seems to me to be an explosion of centennial hops. I asked the bartender, who seemed really into his job, and he mentioned that the brewer prefers centennial. Well, this is blistering to the nose with acrid pine and a tinge of sweeter grapefruit.
Taste is, again, just a palate wrecker. For an IPA, it sure is bitter. Fairly one with abrasive, hoppy pine, maybe the barest hint of grapefruit, and any tropical, sweeter citrus, or malt flavorings to be seen.
A solid IPA in the grand scheme of things. It is nice to see that some brewers still carbonate their beers.
Jun 16, 2009Pours a familiar orange/amber with two or three inches of white foam. Ahh...looks like an IPA.
Smell is like a souped up Big Eye IPA. I'm not hop expert, but this seems to me to be an explosion of centennial hops. I asked the bartender, who seemed really into his job, and he mentioned that the brewer prefers centennial. Well, this is blistering to the nose with acrid pine and a tinge of sweeter grapefruit.
Taste is, again, just a palate wrecker. For an IPA, it sure is bitter. Fairly one with abrasive, hoppy pine, maybe the barest hint of grapefruit, and any tropical, sweeter citrus, or malt flavorings to be seen.
A solid IPA in the grand scheme of things. It is nice to see that some brewers still carbonate their beers.
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