Sweetwater IPA | SweetWater Brewing Company
Brewed by:
SweetWater Brewing Company
Georgia, United States
sweetwaterbrew.com
Style: American IPA
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 6.30%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
This mammoth IPA is dry-hopped to the gills, delivering a kick-you-in-the-teeth hop chop. This beer is unfiltered, as with all SweetWater's brews, to leave all the natural flavors intact.
Added by BeerAdvocate on 02-05-2002
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Ratings: 3,625 | Reviews: 949
3.75/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
4/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Good solid AIPA. Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. Nice hazy light amber color with a medium size foamy, bubbly white head. Head retention is about average but there is plenty of lacing on the glass. Aroma is sweet, beady malt, piney hops and a little grapefruit. Flavor is more of the same with a nice balance between the piney hops and the malt, The grapefruit/citrus kicks in at the back end. Good bitterness. Mouthfeel is crisp and somewhat bitter. A good balanced beer rather than a hops blast. This would be a great every day, go-to IPA in areas where it is readily available.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Good solid AIPA. Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. Nice hazy light amber color with a medium size foamy, bubbly white head. Head retention is about average but there is plenty of lacing on the glass. Aroma is sweet, beady malt, piney hops and a little grapefruit. Flavor is more of the same with a nice balance between the piney hops and the malt, The grapefruit/citrus kicks in at the back end. Good bitterness. Mouthfeel is crisp and somewhat bitter. A good balanced beer rather than a hops blast. This would be a great every day, go-to IPA in areas where it is readily available.
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3.77/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a hazy golden color with a half inch, poorly retained white head that left some spotty lacing. Smells of citrus fruits ,pine, malt and earthy notes. Tastes of orange, orange rind, lemon, some sweet malts, pine and earthy notes. Light to medium bodied, medium carbonation, light to medium bitterness that lingers on the finish.
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look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a hazy golden color with a half inch, poorly retained white head that left some spotty lacing. Smells of citrus fruits ,pine, malt and earthy notes. Tastes of orange, orange rind, lemon, some sweet malts, pine and earthy notes. Light to medium bodied, medium carbonation, light to medium bitterness that lingers on the finish.
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3.75/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.48/5 rDev -12.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.68/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev -8.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This probably would have been a great ipa about 15 years ago. Now it’s just pretty good.
I could drink a lot of them.
Not much on the nose
Piney and a little sweet on the finish.
Lingers bitter - old school
Good beer overall
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This probably would have been a great ipa about 15 years ago. Now it’s just pretty good.
I could drink a lot of them.
Not much on the nose
Piney and a little sweet on the finish.
Lingers bitter - old school
Good beer overall
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3.29/5 rDev -16.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.75/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.32/5 rDev -16.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
4.51/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
Smells amazing. Easy drinking, citrus plus malt are balanced perfectly. Clean, crisp.
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look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
Smells amazing. Easy drinking, citrus plus malt are balanced perfectly. Clean, crisp.
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3.14/5 rDev -20.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.3/5 rDev -16.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.41/5 rDev -13.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -17.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Clear deep golden color with off-white head. Aroma has candied orange peel, hop resin and slightly nutty malt notes. Taste is quite bitter and medicinal up-front. Some citrus rind at first but then you only get the leafy bitterness. Medium body and carbonation. Quite unbalanced and flawed by some off-flavors.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Clear deep golden color with off-white head. Aroma has candied orange peel, hop resin and slightly nutty malt notes. Taste is quite bitter and medicinal up-front. Some citrus rind at first but then you only get the leafy bitterness. Medium body and carbonation. Quite unbalanced and flawed by some off-flavors.
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Sweetwater IPA from SweetWater Brewing Company
Beer rating:
3.96 out of
5 with
3,625 ratings
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