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Claremont Craft Ales
- From:
- Claremont Craft Ales
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 3.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 28, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 22, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with El Segundo Brewing Company
From opposite corners of Los Angeles County, El Segundo Brewing Company and Claremont Craft Ales have teamed up to brew our favorite beer style, the West Cost IPA. If you ask us, the best IPA is pale, dry, and exploding with hop aromas. We pair an all-pilsner malt bill with Nelson, Loral, and Centennial hops to achieve this goal, and then use some tricks-of-the-trade to dry it out a bit more than your typical beer, for an exceptionally drinkable IPA. Cheers!
From opposite corners of Los Angeles County, El Segundo Brewing Company and Claremont Craft Ales have teamed up to brew our favorite beer style, the West Cost IPA. If you ask us, the best IPA is pale, dry, and exploding with hop aromas. We pair an all-pilsner malt bill with Nelson, Loral, and Centennial hops to achieve this goal, and then use some tricks-of-the-trade to dry it out a bit more than your typical beer, for an exceptionally drinkable IPA. Cheers!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BucannonXC5 from California
3.85/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Type: 16-oz. can
Glass: Clear 16-oz. Bruges beer glass
From: Windmill Farms in Del Cerro (San Diego), Calif.
Price: $3.79
Purchased: Dec. 7, 2018
Consumed: Dec. 9, 2018
Reviewed as: American IPA
Misc.: No canned on date
Picked this up with five others at Windmill Farms. Hadn’t had much of Claremont and I think most of that is because they usually don’t have canned on dates if I’m not mistaken. Looking back, had reviewed a collab with King Harbor, giving Tiki Hut Dry a 3.71 back in April 2018. Also had Pepper and Peaches, giving it a 3.50 on Untappd but mentioning that it didn’t seem fresh. But with El Segundo (4.03 average on 10 reviews) involved would think this would be good. Canned description read, “From opposite corners of Los Angeles County, El Segundo Brewing Company and Claremont Craft Ales have teamed up to brew our favorite beer style, the West Cost IPA. If you ask us, the best IPA is pale, dry, and exploding with hop aromas. We pair an all-pilsner malt bill with Nelson, Loral, and Centennial hops to achieve this goal, and then use some tricks-of-the-trade to dry it out a bit more than your typical beer, for an exceptionally drinkable IPA. Cheers!” Was excited to have another new Nelson beer as those hops are back and mean business. Centennial is hit and miss to me, while Loral is newish to me, although Stone recently went through a phase where they were using a bunch of Loral in some new IPAs.
Poured a gold-to-light amber clear color with 2-to-3 fingers of frothy white head. Lots of bubble streams coming up along the sides of the glass. Good semi-layered spotty lacing. Very good retention. (Sight - 4.00)
Got all three hops - Loral, Nelson and Centennial - right away in the nose. Specifically lemon, lime, citrus zest, white wine, dank pine, white grape, floral, grapefruit peel, guava and stone fruit. Centennial and Loral lead the way on the smells from the can. (Smell - 4.00)
Taste was not as good as the nose, but still solid. Centennial led the way, followed by lime, lemon zest, Loral, dank pine, Nelson, white wine, viney berry, white grape, floral, bitter grapefruit peel and stone fruit. (Taste - 3.75)
Medium body. Oily texture. Average carbonation. Bitter, dry finish. (Feel - 4.00)
This was better than I thought it was going to be overall. A very good IPA. (Overall - 3.75)
3.85 | 87 | B+
Dec 28, 2018Glass: Clear 16-oz. Bruges beer glass
From: Windmill Farms in Del Cerro (San Diego), Calif.
Price: $3.79
Purchased: Dec. 7, 2018
Consumed: Dec. 9, 2018
Reviewed as: American IPA
Misc.: No canned on date
Picked this up with five others at Windmill Farms. Hadn’t had much of Claremont and I think most of that is because they usually don’t have canned on dates if I’m not mistaken. Looking back, had reviewed a collab with King Harbor, giving Tiki Hut Dry a 3.71 back in April 2018. Also had Pepper and Peaches, giving it a 3.50 on Untappd but mentioning that it didn’t seem fresh. But with El Segundo (4.03 average on 10 reviews) involved would think this would be good. Canned description read, “From opposite corners of Los Angeles County, El Segundo Brewing Company and Claremont Craft Ales have teamed up to brew our favorite beer style, the West Cost IPA. If you ask us, the best IPA is pale, dry, and exploding with hop aromas. We pair an all-pilsner malt bill with Nelson, Loral, and Centennial hops to achieve this goal, and then use some tricks-of-the-trade to dry it out a bit more than your typical beer, for an exceptionally drinkable IPA. Cheers!” Was excited to have another new Nelson beer as those hops are back and mean business. Centennial is hit and miss to me, while Loral is newish to me, although Stone recently went through a phase where they were using a bunch of Loral in some new IPAs.
Poured a gold-to-light amber clear color with 2-to-3 fingers of frothy white head. Lots of bubble streams coming up along the sides of the glass. Good semi-layered spotty lacing. Very good retention. (Sight - 4.00)
Got all three hops - Loral, Nelson and Centennial - right away in the nose. Specifically lemon, lime, citrus zest, white wine, dank pine, white grape, floral, grapefruit peel, guava and stone fruit. Centennial and Loral lead the way on the smells from the can. (Smell - 4.00)
Taste was not as good as the nose, but still solid. Centennial led the way, followed by lime, lemon zest, Loral, dank pine, Nelson, white wine, viney berry, white grape, floral, bitter grapefruit peel and stone fruit. (Taste - 3.75)
Medium body. Oily texture. Average carbonation. Bitter, dry finish. (Feel - 4.00)
This was better than I thought it was going to be overall. A very good IPA. (Overall - 3.75)
3.85 | 87 | B+
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