Thunderpunch IPA
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 5.36%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 19, 2017
- Added:
- May 20, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
Thunderpunch UNFILTERED IPA
A stampede of hops explode with tropical fruit juciness in this hazy IPA. Don’t just run with the herd, soar above it.
A stampede of hops explode with tropical fruit juciness in this hazy IPA. Don’t just run with the herd, soar above it.
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.09/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.09/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
650ml bottle - a buffalo with wings (no pun intended), so back to the animal mash-up thing, eh, Phillips?
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some splendid layered streaky lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of orange and white grapefruit citrus rind, grainy and bready caramel malt, a minor hard water flintiness, and some leafy, dank weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is biscuity and crackery caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, a lesser, if still indistinct tropical fruitiness, wet stones, a subtle yeasty character, and more edgy floral, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is rather active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with those oats fighting through the dense hop cloud to engender a mild creaminess to boot. It finishes trending dry, the bitterness of the various hop vectors starting to think about starting a band.
Overall, this is definitely one of the better, er, imitations of the NE IPA that I have seen come out of our West Coast - full-flavoured and easy to drink, with the extra point or so of alcohol hardly worth mentioning. To continue a nonsensical metaphor - this buffalo can fly, baby!
Jun 29, 2017This beer pours a hazy, medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some splendid layered streaky lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of orange and white grapefruit citrus rind, grainy and bready caramel malt, a minor hard water flintiness, and some leafy, dank weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is biscuity and crackery caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, a lesser, if still indistinct tropical fruitiness, wet stones, a subtle yeasty character, and more edgy floral, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is rather active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with those oats fighting through the dense hop cloud to engender a mild creaminess to boot. It finishes trending dry, the bitterness of the various hop vectors starting to think about starting a band.
Overall, this is definitely one of the better, er, imitations of the NE IPA that I have seen come out of our West Coast - full-flavoured and easy to drink, with the extra point or so of alcohol hardly worth mentioning. To continue a nonsensical metaphor - this buffalo can fly, baby!
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.94/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Phillips Brewing ' Thunder Punch IPA' @ 6.3% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6.75
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a cloudy light gold in the glass with a large white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-fruity NE hops
T-tropical fruit IPA , with a hop bite
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-just an ok NE IPA
prost LampertLand
Jun 15, 2017A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a cloudy light gold in the glass with a large white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-fruity NE hops
T-tropical fruit IPA , with a hop bite
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-just an ok NE IPA
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.88/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured from a 650ml bottle. Barley, Wheat and Oats.
A: Pours a slightly hazy light gold with a thin white head and minor lacing.
S: Has the dank hop nose wet grass. Pine resin a bit of tropical notes.
T: Hops are forward on this one a big bitter hit that i like.
F: Well balanced with malt to hops nice carbonation and a good fuzzy feel from the hops.
O: Pretty good IPA gets better as the bottle goes down. A hop hit.
May 31, 2017A: Pours a slightly hazy light gold with a thin white head and minor lacing.
S: Has the dank hop nose wet grass. Pine resin a bit of tropical notes.
T: Hops are forward on this one a big bitter hit that i like.
F: Well balanced with malt to hops nice carbonation and a good fuzzy feel from the hops.
O: Pretty good IPA gets better as the bottle goes down. A hop hit.
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