Imperial IPA
SweetWater Brewing Company
- From:
- SweetWater Brewing Company
- Georgia, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9.1%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.56 | pDev: 7.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 07, 2026
- Added:
- Nov 09, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by DOCRW:
Rated by DOCRW from Kentucky
3.5/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Oct 31, 2025
3.5/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Oct 31, 2025
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by CarolinaCardinals from North Carolina
3.46/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.46/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Picked up a 19.2 oz can from the Flat Rock Ingles Market cooler on Spartanburg Hwy 1-20-22 for $2.50. Best by 5-22-22; consumed 4-27-22. Cold stored since purchase.
Beer poured red with a minimal head that dissipated quickly.
Nose has some orange and peach but is not overly pungent.
Taste is a large caramel and pale malt base with a muddled hop addition that has traces of orange, peach, and mango. Finishes pretty sweet and on the edge of cloying; 4/10 on my bitterness scale.
Mouthfeel is medium to large bodied but not overly smooth nor refreshing.
Overall not an awful beer as this would have been probably rated about a 4.0 25 years ago but in this day and age there are many better choices out there.
Apr 27, 2022Beer poured red with a minimal head that dissipated quickly.
Nose has some orange and peach but is not overly pungent.
Taste is a large caramel and pale malt base with a muddled hop addition that has traces of orange, peach, and mango. Finishes pretty sweet and on the edge of cloying; 4/10 on my bitterness scale.
Mouthfeel is medium to large bodied but not overly smooth nor refreshing.
Overall not an awful beer as this would have been probably rated about a 4.0 25 years ago but in this day and age there are many better choices out there.
Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
3.32/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.32/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Bought at Liquor Shed. Best by August 7th 2022.
It pours a clear gold with a reddish tint, good 2 finger head of foam. Good lacing.
Smells of caramel malt, citrus, pine, tropical fruit. I think I detect some onion.
It's more sweet than hoppy in the taste. Caramel just surpasses the tropical fruit and to me, that's a lose lose situation. I do get onion, mango, pineapple...messing with my palate.
Good smooth mouthfeel.
Not for me.
Apr 22, 2022It pours a clear gold with a reddish tint, good 2 finger head of foam. Good lacing.
Smells of caramel malt, citrus, pine, tropical fruit. I think I detect some onion.
It's more sweet than hoppy in the taste. Caramel just surpasses the tropical fruit and to me, that's a lose lose situation. I do get onion, mango, pineapple...messing with my palate.
Good smooth mouthfeel.
Not for me.
Reviewed by Mark-Leggett from Missouri
4.17/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a can. Caramel to orangish in color with a large foamy head and lacing. Smells of caramel, pine and malt. Flavors of pine, bread, caramel, and malt. Flavors are really well done.
Nov 09, 2021
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