Beachcomber Left Coast IPA
Village Brewery
- From:
- Village Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 6.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 02, 2017
- Added:
- May 18, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - the label yammers on about finding some sexy new hops on the beach, and then moving to the mountains, or something. Whatever.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of streaky dissipating cloud form lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of mixed exotic stone fruit, grainy and bready caramel malt, ethereal domestic citrus rind, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some mild leafy, weedy, and musty floral green hoppiness. The taste is indistinct, yet still pleasant melon, more blended tropical fruit, a steady grainy and crackery caramel malt, reduced brown sugar syrup, black tea bags before you dump them in the boiling water, subtle orange bitters, and more well understated leafy, herbal, and grassy verdant hops.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the hops seem to trip up a tad on their way East. It finishes off-dry, the bready caramel malt and mawkish hop fruitiness running the table.
Overall, this is much more akin to an ESB than this outfit's actual 'Father' ESB from one beer ago - very English in its bearing, the malt eventually predominating. Not my thing, as the implication of 'Left Coast' means (to me, at least), that there will be big citrus and piney notes, with whatever else you care to throw at it. That's not what's happening here - just a simulacrum of picked-over driftwood (lower-case 'd'), as it were.
May 30, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of streaky dissipating cloud form lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of mixed exotic stone fruit, grainy and bready caramel malt, ethereal domestic citrus rind, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some mild leafy, weedy, and musty floral green hoppiness. The taste is indistinct, yet still pleasant melon, more blended tropical fruit, a steady grainy and crackery caramel malt, reduced brown sugar syrup, black tea bags before you dump them in the boiling water, subtle orange bitters, and more well understated leafy, herbal, and grassy verdant hops.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the hops seem to trip up a tad on their way East. It finishes off-dry, the bready caramel malt and mawkish hop fruitiness running the table.
Overall, this is much more akin to an ESB than this outfit's actual 'Father' ESB from one beer ago - very English in its bearing, the malt eventually predominating. Not my thing, as the implication of 'Left Coast' means (to me, at least), that there will be big citrus and piney notes, with whatever else you care to throw at it. That's not what's happening here - just a simulacrum of picked-over driftwood (lower-case 'd'), as it were.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bomber poured into tulip 29/5/17
A clear amber liquid, looks a little still but manages a thumbs width of tan foam that hangs around for a couple sips leaving some random patches
S melon, guava, some candied orange peel, heavy malt though, lots of brown sugar, iced tea, caramel all over, tastes like old IPA but was bottled recently
T orange marmalade and creamsicle, a little pine comes out but still has loads of brown sugar and sweet malts
M more bubbles then visible, slick on the palate, mild bitter bite, sweet malt and pine linger
O OK but nothing memorable, not exactly what I was hoping for in a fresh IPA, I wont be dropping 10$ on another
A little overpriced and a little underwhelming, the balance is a little lopsided towards malt and in an IPA I prefer it the other way around....
May 30, 2017A clear amber liquid, looks a little still but manages a thumbs width of tan foam that hangs around for a couple sips leaving some random patches
S melon, guava, some candied orange peel, heavy malt though, lots of brown sugar, iced tea, caramel all over, tastes like old IPA but was bottled recently
T orange marmalade and creamsicle, a little pine comes out but still has loads of brown sugar and sweet malts
M more bubbles then visible, slick on the palate, mild bitter bite, sweet malt and pine linger
O OK but nothing memorable, not exactly what I was hoping for in a fresh IPA, I wont be dropping 10$ on another
A little overpriced and a little underwhelming, the balance is a little lopsided towards malt and in an IPA I prefer it the other way around....
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