Sunshine City IPA
Green Bench Brewing Co.
- From:
- Green Bench Brewing Co.
- Florida, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #778 - ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #10,927 - Avg:
- 4.05 | pDev: 7.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 76
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 23, 2026
- Added:
- Aug 02, 2015
- Wants:
- 15
- Gots:
- 62
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
A celebration of our beautiful sunny city, St. Petersburg, Sunshine City IPA was designed to be as bright as the warmest summer day. Packed with hop flavor and aroma, we double dry hop this beer with equal parts Mosaic, Citra, and Azacca hops, for an intensely tropical profile reminiscent of tangerine, nectar, and peach.
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Reviewed by jonphisher from New Jersey
4.01/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours lemonade and straw; opaque, wit like look; fluffy attractive white cap.
Nose is all about refreshing zippy fruit; not tropical really though; orange and tangerine come to mind; peach rings; zest; as it warms some lighter tropical notes come out.
The taste leans into refreshing fruit bowl mix; again noting really tropical just like a fresh fruit salad; replace melon with citrus and a little peach; light straw like malt.
Body is medium; one bright and zippy ipa; this is refreshing summer ipa through and through; good bitterness and dry clean finish.
Feb 09, 2026Nose is all about refreshing zippy fruit; not tropical really though; orange and tangerine come to mind; peach rings; zest; as it warms some lighter tropical notes come out.
The taste leans into refreshing fruit bowl mix; again noting really tropical just like a fresh fruit salad; replace melon with citrus and a little peach; light straw like malt.
Body is medium; one bright and zippy ipa; this is refreshing summer ipa through and through; good bitterness and dry clean finish.
Reviewed by TCgenny from New York
4.19/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Canned 10/3 and cracked 11/19 pours solid amber body with a creamy head 2 finger that lasts. Aroma is herbal, light fruit, really inviting. Taste is excellent: mild sweet passion fruit , 68 ibu is definitely here, feel is soft carbonation, smacky smacky, a lot of unexplainable things happening on the palate, feels like puberty: I can’t put in words, but I’m awkward , and tingly.
This is really, really good.
Nov 19, 2025This is really, really good.
Reviewed by jzlyo from Iowa
4.15/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Aroma is fruit and big citrus, classic WCIPA. The flavor is malts/grains, good carbonation citrus in the middle and a long and very bitter hop finish.
Nov 01, 2025
Rated by Davidstan from Alabama
4.18/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Very smooth American IPA. Brewery makes a solid Pils also
Apr 22, 2024
Rated by FRANKHAZE from Florida
4.54/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.54/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
One of my go-to brews. Juicy, dry. Get you some of this hoppy nectar.
Jan 08, 2024
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