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Grapefruit Dead
18th Street Brewery - Gary Taproom
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- From:
- 18th Street Brewery - Gary Taproom
- Indiana, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #425 - ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 94
Ranked #2,337 - Avg:
- 4.25 | pDev: 7.06%
- Reviews:
- 9
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 09, 2021
- Added:
- Jul 22, 2014
- Wants:
- 43
- Gots:
- 17
SCORE
94
Outstanding
94
Outstanding
Notes:
Collaboration with Mikkeller
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.67/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Canned summer 2016; drank 8/16/16 @ the Yarchives.
Semi-opaque dark orange appearance.
A violent pour yielded a big eggshell head; thick, frothy tree-rung lace.
Grapefruit, banana & caramel notes in the nose.
Medium thick mouthfeel.
Caramel & grapefruit flavors up front; banana notes on the finish. No booze heat.
Oddly mild but easy to drink; good, not great.
Apr 01, 2019Semi-opaque dark orange appearance.
A violent pour yielded a big eggshell head; thick, frothy tree-rung lace.
Grapefruit, banana & caramel notes in the nose.
Medium thick mouthfeel.
Caramel & grapefruit flavors up front; banana notes on the finish. No booze heat.
Oddly mild but easy to drink; good, not great.
Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
4.1/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
18th Street / Mikkeller collaboration
Appearance: A three finger head builds atop the cloudy honey colored liquid; a good deal of splashy lacing
Smell: Smells like a grapefruit squeeze, pith and juice
Taste: Grapefruit juice and pith, with shortbread malt tones underneath; quite bitter, after the swallow, with the resultant aspirin bitterness overwhelming the flavor profile
Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with moderate carbonation
Overall: Appropriately named, this is a nice, older style DIPA but it does have that aspirin tone I often get from Amarillo hops - I would score it higher if the fruit tones were dominant in the finish
Thanks, TravisMason, for the opportunity
Dec 31, 2016Appearance: A three finger head builds atop the cloudy honey colored liquid; a good deal of splashy lacing
Smell: Smells like a grapefruit squeeze, pith and juice
Taste: Grapefruit juice and pith, with shortbread malt tones underneath; quite bitter, after the swallow, with the resultant aspirin bitterness overwhelming the flavor profile
Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with moderate carbonation
Overall: Appropriately named, this is a nice, older style DIPA but it does have that aspirin tone I often get from Amarillo hops - I would score it higher if the fruit tones were dominant in the finish
Thanks, TravisMason, for the opportunity
Reviewed by Nicolaiw from Denmark
4.07/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.07/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Amber color, little hazy, one finger off-white head
Aroma is grapefruit, citrus, malt,
Taste is lots of grapefruit, well rounded malt profile, big mouthfeel, perfect example of a dipa.
Dec 14, 2016Aroma is grapefruit, citrus, malt,
Taste is lots of grapefruit, well rounded malt profile, big mouthfeel, perfect example of a dipa.
Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania
3.85/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Slightly hazy orange color with off-white head. Aroma has overripe citrus fruits and sweet malts, even a kind of flour flavor. Medium body and carbonation, slightly boozy on the finish. Overall it's a decent DIPA but nothing to remember.
Nov 24, 2016
Rated by rlee1390 from Indiana
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Expensive. But a nice hoppy citrus and grapefruit IPA.
Oct 04, 2016
Reviewed by LloydDobler from Indiana
4.34/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
12oz can
$6.25 single from Pats Liquor
This one was a big surprise. Pours a very deep gold or light orange with a soft pillowy foam topping. Very sweet, like a grapefruit hard candy. The hops back it up and linger. Well balanced.
Aug 27, 2016$6.25 single from Pats Liquor
This one was a big surprise. Pours a very deep gold or light orange with a soft pillowy foam topping. Very sweet, like a grapefruit hard candy. The hops back it up and linger. Well balanced.
Reviewed by Flounder57 from Massachusetts
4.08/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 oz beers were poured into a sniffer.
Appearance: A one finger head was poured that reduced to a thin layer. It is an amber orange color with some clarity and vision of bubbles coming up through the glass. Spotty lacing down the glass as the beer was drank.
Smell: Getting some citrus and lemon from the Amarillo hops. Nice caramel, doughy, and biscuity hops with warm alcohol in the rear.
Taste: The hop flavor is definitely there, but there is a heavy alcohol note to the beer and a light bitterness tingly throughout the palate.
Mouthfeel: Smooth, medium bodied, a little booze, light tingly bitterness, and medium carbonation.
Overall: Not a bad collaboration beer. A bit steep for a 4 pack and was expecting a bit more hop flavor and smoother alcohol finish.
Aug 26, 2016Appearance: A one finger head was poured that reduced to a thin layer. It is an amber orange color with some clarity and vision of bubbles coming up through the glass. Spotty lacing down the glass as the beer was drank.
Smell: Getting some citrus and lemon from the Amarillo hops. Nice caramel, doughy, and biscuity hops with warm alcohol in the rear.
Taste: The hop flavor is definitely there, but there is a heavy alcohol note to the beer and a light bitterness tingly throughout the palate.
Mouthfeel: Smooth, medium bodied, a little booze, light tingly bitterness, and medium carbonation.
Overall: Not a bad collaboration beer. A bit steep for a 4 pack and was expecting a bit more hop flavor and smoother alcohol finish.
Grapefruit Dead from 18th Street Brewery - Gary Taproom
Beer rating:
94 out of
100 with
156 ratings
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