GVL IPA
Brewery 85
- From:
- Brewery 85
- South Carolina, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.41 | pDev: 15.84%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 25, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 01, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
Finally, Greenville has an IPA to call it’s own! Folks have been waiting quite a while for us to produce an IPA and we’ve finally answered the called.
This well-balanced beer has all of the hallmarks of an American style IPA. Slight booze. This beer has a strong malt base buffered with a nice addition of smooth, white American wheat. Citrus/Green aromas are rounded out with slight spice notes.
Boiled with Warrior, Centennial, Amarillo… Then we dry-hopped the bejesus out of it with more Centennial & Amarillo!
This well-balanced beer has all of the hallmarks of an American style IPA. Slight booze. This beer has a strong malt base buffered with a nice addition of smooth, white American wheat. Citrus/Green aromas are rounded out with slight spice notes.
Boiled with Warrior, Centennial, Amarillo… Then we dry-hopped the bejesus out of it with more Centennial & Amarillo!
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Reviewed by WoodBrew from Ohio
3.72/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
My bestie from Charlotte, NC gave me a can of this beer. It poured slightly hazy copper with big fizzy head that is leaving some lace. The scent had musty bitter citrus and pine notes. The taste was sweet malt base with bitter hop flare....pine coming through after the swallow. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a good beer.
Feb 26, 2021
Reviewed by dwaters59 from South Carolina
1.66/5 rDev -51.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
1.66/5 rDev -51.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
Looks like a clouded wheat beer
Smells yeasty dank
Tastes too malty to be ipa. Dank after taste. No citrus and its soapy until the head disappears and it warms. Alcohol is not over bearing.
Feels sharp like highly carbonated.
Would not buy or drink again. I prefer citrus, non dank (No after taste), high and ipas.
I'm yet to find a beer brewed in SC worth the purchase. Must be the water. NC seems to have a lot of excellent beers.
Oct 27, 2017Smells yeasty dank
Tastes too malty to be ipa. Dank after taste. No citrus and its soapy until the head disappears and it warms. Alcohol is not over bearing.
Feels sharp like highly carbonated.
Would not buy or drink again. I prefer citrus, non dank (No after taste), high and ipas.
I'm yet to find a beer brewed in SC worth the purchase. Must be the water. NC seems to have a lot of excellent beers.
Reviewed by Bru-ster from South Carolina
3.06/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.06/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Bougfht single can from Total Wine Greenville, SC. Once again another IPA that is relatively high in alcohol, drinkable, but entering into a very overcrowded field of hop biting IPAs. I am predisposed to not enjoying many of these high alcoholic hoppy IPAs - hance my rating.
If you like hoppy high alcohol beers it is drnkable
Feb 03, 2016If you like hoppy high alcohol beers it is drnkable
Reviewed by dbrauneis from North Carolina
3.53/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A: Pours a hazy deep burnt orange in color with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising from the bottom of the glass with moderate amounts of copper highlights. The beer has a half finger tall foamy off-white head that reduces to a mottled thin film covering the entire surface of the beer with a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate amounts of lacing are observed.
S: Moderate aromas of caramel malts with a hint of sweetness and citrus/grapefruit pith + herbal hops. Lighter aromas of floral + grassy hops.
T: Upfront there is a moderate flavor of caramel + grainy malts with a light to moderate amounts of caramel sweetness. That is followed by moderate flavors of citrus/grapefruit pith, herbal, floral, and grassy hops which impart a moderate amount of assertive bitterness which linger for a short while.
M: Medium bodied with just slightly lower than moderate amounts of carbonation.
O: Enjoyable with well hidden alcohol and pretty easy to drink. When first opened there is a hint of soapiness that goes away as the beer comes up to temperature.
Dec 12, 2015S: Moderate aromas of caramel malts with a hint of sweetness and citrus/grapefruit pith + herbal hops. Lighter aromas of floral + grassy hops.
T: Upfront there is a moderate flavor of caramel + grainy malts with a light to moderate amounts of caramel sweetness. That is followed by moderate flavors of citrus/grapefruit pith, herbal, floral, and grassy hops which impart a moderate amount of assertive bitterness which linger for a short while.
M: Medium bodied with just slightly lower than moderate amounts of carbonation.
O: Enjoyable with well hidden alcohol and pretty easy to drink. When first opened there is a hint of soapiness that goes away as the beer comes up to temperature.
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
3.57/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A: The beer is hazy yellowish amber in color and has a slight amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a half finger high off white head that has very good retention properties and consistently left a short head covering the surface.
S: Light to moderate aromas of spicy hops are present in the nose along with some underlying hints of caramel hops.
T: The taste starts out with a little bit of soapiness and quickly transitions to flavors of spicy hops along with some hints of caramel malts. There is a light to moderate amount of bitterness.
M: It feels medium-bodied and slightly crisp on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer finishes nicely, but the soapiness in the initial taste is a little detracting.
Serving type: can
Dec 12, 2015S: Light to moderate aromas of spicy hops are present in the nose along with some underlying hints of caramel hops.
T: The taste starts out with a little bit of soapiness and quickly transitions to flavors of spicy hops along with some hints of caramel malts. There is a light to moderate amount of bitterness.
M: It feels medium-bodied and slightly crisp on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer finishes nicely, but the soapiness in the initial taste is a little detracting.
Serving type: can
Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.49/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
On tap at the brewery taproom.
Deep orange-copper body with a moderately durable head.
Aroma: sweet and rather mildly hoppy for style.
The flavor is more hoppy, and while sweet upfront, turns medium+ bitter by the aftertaste. Grassy, grapefruit, citrus rind and floral elements here.
Feel: medium+ body with medium-low carbonation.
Sep 11, 2015Deep orange-copper body with a moderately durable head.
Aroma: sweet and rather mildly hoppy for style.
The flavor is more hoppy, and while sweet upfront, turns medium+ bitter by the aftertaste. Grassy, grapefruit, citrus rind and floral elements here.
Feel: medium+ body with medium-low carbonation.
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