IPA
Trimtab Brewing Company
- From:
- Trimtab Brewing Company
- Alabama, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #2,709 - ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #22,548 - Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 10.31%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 39
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 09, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 07, 2014
- Wants:
- 10
- Gots:
- 75
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
Our namesake beer, TrimTab IPA is a balanced, sessionable IPA that explores intense hop aroma and flavor without excessive bitterness. A huge amount of Pacifica hops are added in a dry hop, which adds to this beer's distinctive orange marmalade, rose petal and peppercorn character. Ripe citrus fruit aromas and flavors dominate, creating a beer that is an iconic example of TrimTab's commitment to making expressive and complex, yet balanced craft beer. It's an effort to answer the question, "what it means to be a Southern IPA?"
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Reviewed by MaddDoGG5150 from California
4.06/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Aroma: Citrus and tropical fruit. A little bit of bready, malty characteristics.
Taste: A well balanced blend of herbal and citrus hops, some ripened fruit and malt in the background. A nice level of bitterness throughout. Somewhat of a dry finish.
Overall: This is pretty good. Both east and west coast charictristics. The balance makes it all work. This Alabama beer is quite enjoyable to drink.
Dec 24, 2022Taste: A well balanced blend of herbal and citrus hops, some ripened fruit and malt in the background. A nice level of bitterness throughout. Somewhat of a dry finish.
Overall: This is pretty good. Both east and west coast charictristics. The balance makes it all work. This Alabama beer is quite enjoyable to drink.
Reviewed by Radome from Florida
3.42/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Tasted from a 12 oz can bought in the panhandle of FL.
L - Golden color with a slight haze. Huge, fluffy, creamy head piles high and lasts.
S - Aroma is mainly from hops; citrus and tropical fruit, but it is not especially pungent for an IPA. Later in the inhale there is a bit of lightly toasted bread from the malt.
T - Bready malt is present, but is offset by crisp, citrus hops flavors. The balance is a bit too far in the direction of malt for the style.
F - Medium to thick body is definitely not crisp enough for an IPA. Moderate carbonation. Medium hops bitterness. Low alcohol presence.
O - This is a good, enjoyable beer, but it falls short in several areas as an IPA. I'd call it an American Pale Ale.
Sep 13, 2020L - Golden color with a slight haze. Huge, fluffy, creamy head piles high and lasts.
S - Aroma is mainly from hops; citrus and tropical fruit, but it is not especially pungent for an IPA. Later in the inhale there is a bit of lightly toasted bread from the malt.
T - Bready malt is present, but is offset by crisp, citrus hops flavors. The balance is a bit too far in the direction of malt for the style.
F - Medium to thick body is definitely not crisp enough for an IPA. Moderate carbonation. Medium hops bitterness. Low alcohol presence.
O - This is a good, enjoyable beer, but it falls short in several areas as an IPA. I'd call it an American Pale Ale.
Reviewed by osheamatth from New York
4.06/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A very very nice IPA out of Alabama. Golden and clear with frothy lacing. Smells delightfully of very ripe pineapple and fresh pine needles. Keeps some of those aroma notes in the palate but drops off slightly but adds some decent bite. Finishes nice and clean.
Feb 26, 2020
Reviewed by jmc65267 from Georgia
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Very enjoyable beer. Has a nice fruity flavor which is definitely the best but the smell is great as well and it backs it up. I would definitely get again.
Jan 30, 2020Reviewed by hoptheology from South Dakota
3.91/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.91/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
12 oz can, best by 5/20/20, I think it was canned last Monday. Purchased right here in Birmingham from Hop City.
Smokestack snifter.
Pours a transparent (I almost can watch TV through it) golden honey color with a creamy tall west-coast looking off-white head of 3 fingers, receding to 1 finger of bubbly head, destroying the glass as it recedes.
Aroma of honey, cantaloupe, spicy grapefruit, marshmallow, graham, floral hops, and honeydew melon.
Flavor is spicy fruit salad and vanilla/marshmallow. Some lingering honey, orange marmalade, pine, and sage, and finishes on ruby red grapefruit. Very unique profile. Easy drinking. Lots of resins.
Feel is really oily and really smooth, with a medium to mild carbonation (a bit light for the style), with mild heat and lots of scrubbing resins.
Overall, I can't place this IPA in any category. I want to say it's west-coast, but the vanilla and fruit salad throw that one for a loop. It's not east coast either. It just is. You gotta try it once.
Jan 27, 2020Smokestack snifter.
Pours a transparent (I almost can watch TV through it) golden honey color with a creamy tall west-coast looking off-white head of 3 fingers, receding to 1 finger of bubbly head, destroying the glass as it recedes.
Aroma of honey, cantaloupe, spicy grapefruit, marshmallow, graham, floral hops, and honeydew melon.
Flavor is spicy fruit salad and vanilla/marshmallow. Some lingering honey, orange marmalade, pine, and sage, and finishes on ruby red grapefruit. Very unique profile. Easy drinking. Lots of resins.
Feel is really oily and really smooth, with a medium to mild carbonation (a bit light for the style), with mild heat and lots of scrubbing resins.
Overall, I can't place this IPA in any category. I want to say it's west-coast, but the vanilla and fruit salad throw that one for a loop. It's not east coast either. It just is. You gotta try it once.
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