Samuel Adams Wicked Tropical IPA
Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Company)
- From:
- Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Company)
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- New England IPA
Ranked #10,358 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #56,376 - Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 13.88%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 25, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 14, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Doubtful_Guest from Connecticut
3/5 rDev -15%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 5
3/5 rDev -15%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 5
How they got the bubbles into this can of Hawaiian Tropic sunscreen, I’ll never know. Bro, I think I just drank a scented marker. Mouthfeel: Nerds
Wack AF
I said to this beer, just sit your @ss on the curb and STFU.
Feb 25, 2025Wack AF
I said to this beer, just sit your @ss on the curb and STFU.
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance - The beer pours a hazy orange-straw color with a small head of white foam. The head has a decent level of retention, fading over time and leaving a moderate amount of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell - The aroma is strong of a bready smell mixed with lots of tropical fruits of tangerine, and pineapple as well as a decent showing of coconut and some lemongrass. Along with these smells comes touch of herb and a little bit of a musty and hay smell.
Taste - The taste begins with a moderately bready malt flavor paired with the grapefruit hop and some of the tropical fruits that were in the nose. The tropical was mainly of papaya and mango, but mixed with some other tropicals of coconut and pineapple. As the taste advances some lemon and lemongrass and some hay join in, all while the grapefruit fades a tad, and some hay joins in, leaving one with a moderately to lightly hopped and somewhat more malty and lightly tropical flavored taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel - The body was moderately thick with a carbonation level that was lower. Overall the feel was decent and made for an easy sipper.
Overall - An OK hazy. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing too stellar either.
Aug 14, 2024Appearance - The beer pours a hazy orange-straw color with a small head of white foam. The head has a decent level of retention, fading over time and leaving a moderate amount of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell - The aroma is strong of a bready smell mixed with lots of tropical fruits of tangerine, and pineapple as well as a decent showing of coconut and some lemongrass. Along with these smells comes touch of herb and a little bit of a musty and hay smell.
Taste - The taste begins with a moderately bready malt flavor paired with the grapefruit hop and some of the tropical fruits that were in the nose. The tropical was mainly of papaya and mango, but mixed with some other tropicals of coconut and pineapple. As the taste advances some lemon and lemongrass and some hay join in, all while the grapefruit fades a tad, and some hay joins in, leaving one with a moderately to lightly hopped and somewhat more malty and lightly tropical flavored taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel - The body was moderately thick with a carbonation level that was lower. Overall the feel was decent and made for an easy sipper.
Overall - An OK hazy. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing too stellar either.
Reviewed by Peach63 from New York
4/5 rDev +13.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +13.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hazy pale orange with a 1.5" white head, which lasts. Moderate lacing.
Aroma of mango, pineapple, light pine.
Taste is mango, pineapple, guava.
Medium body, light carbonation. Semidry finish.
A nice fruity IPA.
Jun 18, 2023Aroma of mango, pineapple, light pine.
Taste is mango, pineapple, guava.
Medium body, light carbonation. Semidry finish.
A nice fruity IPA.
Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.46/5 rDev -2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.46/5 rDev -2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
From the can, it pours a hazy light amber color with a nice, long lasting, white head that leaves lacing. The nose gets a pleasant citrus/pineapple scent. Definitely not a smooth brew, it hits sharply initially, followed by light flavor.
May 26, 2023
Reviewed by AdmiralOzone from Minnesota
3.39/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.39/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Pours a hazy golden yellow, large white long-lasting head. Nice lacing. Aroma is tropical fruit and some coconut. Flavor follows the nose. Feel is medium bodied and low in carbonation. Overall, like the rest of this mixed "Wicked" 12 pack, I'm underwhelmed.
Apr 11, 2023
Rated by Dalkri from Massachusetts
3/5 rDev -15%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -15%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Meh. This is my least favorite of the "Wicked" lineup.
Mar 01, 2023
Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire
3.77/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12oz can dated best before February 2023.
Pours hazy gold with two inches of rocky froth. Plenty of tattered lacing and persistent retention. Candied apricots and melons in the nose. Medium bodied with a soft but thinnish mouthfeel. Tropical citrus on the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Pear, apricot, honeydew. Finishes juicy.
Dec 23, 2022Pours hazy gold with two inches of rocky froth. Plenty of tattered lacing and persistent retention. Candied apricots and melons in the nose. Medium bodied with a soft but thinnish mouthfeel. Tropical citrus on the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Pear, apricot, honeydew. Finishes juicy.
Rated by SmoothOverEverything from Ohio
3/5 rDev -15%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -15%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Not sweet enough or tropical enough. Just lacking a little bit of taste, similar to the double hazy
Sep 03, 2022
Reviewed by jadpsu from Georgia
3.6/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.6/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
LOOK: Pours a moderately hazy light pale straw yellow with a major all white head that has good retention and supplies lots of side glass lace.
AROMA: The side can marketing says papaya, coconut and Pina Colada and I get it. Also a basement dour dank odor that is not welcome.
TASTE: The papaya, coconut combination is not appealing for me.
Drying, sour.
Not in my wheelhouse.
Aug 12, 2022AROMA: The side can marketing says papaya, coconut and Pina Colada and I get it. Also a basement dour dank odor that is not welcome.
TASTE: The papaya, coconut combination is not appealing for me.
Drying, sour.
Not in my wheelhouse.
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