Devilfish SMaSH IPA
Old Yale Brewing Co.
- From:
- Old Yale Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 19.73%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 11, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 29, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
This daringly simple IPA was crafted using only the essentials: special amber malt and Ella hops. The Devilfish’s tropical notes and smooth finish are best savoured with a spicy seafood dish.
IBU: 40
Single Malt and Single Hop IPA
Hops: Ella
Malts: Special Amber
IBU: 40
Single Malt and Single Hop IPA
Hops: Ella
Malts: Special Amber
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a dark amber with three fingers of bubbly off-white head.
Smell - Citrus hops, bready malts, tropical fruit (mango, pineapple) , caramel.
Taste - Balanced flavours of citrus hops and bready malts. Sweetness of caramel runs through it, along with essences of tropical fruits. Bitterness is at a moderate level.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. A tad sticky on the palate with a lingering citrus hop aftertaste.
Overall - I don't think I've ever tried a single malt and single hop version of an IPA. There's a nice balance in flavour that starts initially with citrus hops, then followed by the bready malts. Stunning appearance.
Jun 11, 2017Smell - Citrus hops, bready malts, tropical fruit (mango, pineapple) , caramel.
Taste - Balanced flavours of citrus hops and bready malts. Sweetness of caramel runs through it, along with essences of tropical fruits. Bitterness is at a moderate level.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. A tad sticky on the palate with a lingering citrus hop aftertaste.
Overall - I don't think I've ever tried a single malt and single hop version of an IPA. There's a nice balance in flavour that starts initially with citrus hops, then followed by the bready malts. Stunning appearance.
Reviewed by dbl_delta from Pennsylvania
3.88/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650 ml undated bottle into pint glass. Pours a clear golden amber color with an off white head. Initial impression is a nice balance between the tropical fruit and floral notes of the Ella hops, and the caramel malt. Enough hops bite to make it interesting, but enough malt to keep it from being one dimensional.
My first offering from Old Yale, and I'm favorably impressed!
Jun 01, 2017My first offering from Old Yale, and I'm favorably impressed!
Reviewed by smekermann from Canada (BC)
1.3/5 rDev -64.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.25
1.3/5 rDev -64.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.25
Maybe I bought an off bottle or maybe it was old or something (no best before or bottling date on the label), but this beer was undrinkable. As soon as I opened the bottle, it started spewing off foam, barely managed to pour a quarter glass of it before the head started overflowing.
Smell was terrible - this oxidized, metallic smell with whiffs of faint herbal hops and sickly sweet malts.
It tasted as well as it smelled - godawful. Metallic. There might've been some hops in there. I couldn't tell, I was too busy getting lead poisoning.
Not even gonna bother with any other descriptors, really. This beer was a drainpour after two sips.
edit: I mean, even if this was eight months old, it's still unbelievably bad. I've had older IPAs that have tasted better. Pretty sure it's infected.
Aug 25, 2016Smell was terrible - this oxidized, metallic smell with whiffs of faint herbal hops and sickly sweet malts.
It tasted as well as it smelled - godawful. Metallic. There might've been some hops in there. I couldn't tell, I was too busy getting lead poisoning.
Not even gonna bother with any other descriptors, really. This beer was a drainpour after two sips.
edit: I mean, even if this was eight months old, it's still unbelievably bad. I've had older IPAs that have tasted better. Pretty sure it's infected.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.74/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Old Yale Brewing 'Devilfish SMaSH IPA' @ 5.5% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6.80
A-pour is gold from the bottle to a hazey amber in the glass with a fluffy medium size off-white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-malt more than hop
T-again the malt stands out ,
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-just an ok beer , weak IPA
prost LampertLand
May 23, 2016A-pour is gold from the bottle to a hazey amber in the glass with a fluffy medium size off-white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-malt more than hop
T-again the malt stands out ,
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-just an ok beer , weak IPA
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.71/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - didn't quite get the 'SMaSH' meaning until I, y'know, read the label! A single-malt ('special amber'), and single hop (Ella) affair.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of hanging Space Invaders bad guy lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of sugary mandarin orange and Texas red grapefruit citrus, pink bubblegum, muddled, but generous tropical fruit, caramel/toffee malt, and further musty, floral, and perfumed hop bitters. The taste is grainy, kind of biscuity caramel malt, some mixed and muted tropical fruit esters, wan and wandering yeast, a touch of stale black licorice, and a complex array of herbal, leafy, floral, and weirdly vegetal hoppiness.
The bubbles are adequate in their supportive and sometimes playful/come hither frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and equally insouciant in its attempt at smoothness - the spicy and floral nature of this particular hop the culprit, apparently. It finishes trending dry, the graininess mostly bled out, and the same set of villains from the mouthfeel strengthening their hold.
I gotta say, this one showed real promise at first, with all those sweet tropical fruit aromas, and such. However, that was never really delivered upon, as the floral and spicy essences come around, and in a rather clumsy, and disjointed manner. Overall, not a bad brew, and adventurous, sure, but the end result is not worthy of repeat engagement.
Jan 12, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of hanging Space Invaders bad guy lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of sugary mandarin orange and Texas red grapefruit citrus, pink bubblegum, muddled, but generous tropical fruit, caramel/toffee malt, and further musty, floral, and perfumed hop bitters. The taste is grainy, kind of biscuity caramel malt, some mixed and muted tropical fruit esters, wan and wandering yeast, a touch of stale black licorice, and a complex array of herbal, leafy, floral, and weirdly vegetal hoppiness.
The bubbles are adequate in their supportive and sometimes playful/come hither frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and equally insouciant in its attempt at smoothness - the spicy and floral nature of this particular hop the culprit, apparently. It finishes trending dry, the graininess mostly bled out, and the same set of villains from the mouthfeel strengthening their hold.
I gotta say, this one showed real promise at first, with all those sweet tropical fruit aromas, and such. However, that was never really delivered upon, as the floral and spicy essences come around, and in a rather clumsy, and disjointed manner. Overall, not a bad brew, and adventurous, sure, but the end result is not worthy of repeat engagement.
Reviewed by BCborn from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev +9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle
A- light hazy amber color with off-white head, tight small bubbles
S- lots of tropical fruits, blood orange sweetness
T- light tropical-citrus-sweet flavors up front, then more grapefruit light bitterness at end, clean finish
M- medium, light carbonation
O- Fairly light tasting IPA with no real bitterness, Nice beer.
Dec 29, 2015A- light hazy amber color with off-white head, tight small bubbles
S- lots of tropical fruits, blood orange sweetness
T- light tropical-citrus-sweet flavors up front, then more grapefruit light bitterness at end, clean finish
M- medium, light carbonation
O- Fairly light tasting IPA with no real bitterness, Nice beer.
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