8th & 5th IPA
WeldWerks Brewing Co.
- From:
- WeldWerks Brewing Co.
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.15 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 19, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 17, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Double Dry-Hopped West Coast-style Double IPA
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
16 fl oz pull-tab can nabbed at Weldwerks yesterday. Label depicts what I presume is an overhead view of Greeley, Colorado.
"Double dry-hopped West Coast-Style Double IPA." 8.3% ABV.
Served cold into a conical pint glass.
AROMA: Caramalt, toast, marmalade, treacle.
Floral hop aromatics, pith, mango, fruit creamsicle, tangerine, papaya.
The back end is loaded with 2-row and caramalt sweetness. Seems warm alcohol wise and it has an English tug to it with the marmalade/caramalt flavours.
Suggests a slightly boozy IIPA with a pleasant but not standout hop profile that bends tropical.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Orange marmalade, tangerine creamsicle, and rich caramalt give this an English IPA-redolent open before additional layers of tropical fruit (papaya, mango), honeyed malt, and 2-row sweetness hit later on.
An obvious undertone of alcohol warmth is present throughout, and as sweet as it is from the slightly unwelcome richer malts (caramalt, maybe crystal malt), the beer still doesn't taste balanced.
Smooth, wet, medium to full-bodied, well carbonated, fairly thick, coating, filling. Has some heft on the palate, which when coupled with its obvious alcohol warmth makes it less drinkable than an IIPA like, say, Lagunitas' Lagunitas Sucks.
The honeyed sweetness and marmalade flavour disrupt the beer's build for me, taking it firmly away from the classic so-called "West Coast style" hop profile Weldwerks claims they were targeting. Not the classic C-hop hop profile or Amarillo/Simcoe/Citra hop profile I'd associate with classic San Diego-brewed IIPAs (which in my view are the gold standard for the style along with Russian River's expressions thereof).
OVERALL: It's drinkable but doesn't measure up to the best IIPAs brewed in Colorado, let alone most of the others brewed at Weldwerks. I don't love its hop profile, and even if I did its hop profile doesn't evoke the 2010-2015 Californian & Portlander IPAs I associate with the so-called "West Coast style"...it's a beer that doesn't succeed in doing what they set out to do and isn't terribly impressive as an IIPA in its own right outside their stated intentions.
I can't say it's a bad attempt at the style, but I'd much sooner pay less for Lagunitas Sucks or another good widely distributed expression of the style and I won't seek this one out in the future even if it is enjoyable enough and free of any off-flavours or faults.
C+ (3.15) / ABOVE AVERAGE
***
12/26/20:
C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
Dec 19, 2020"Double dry-hopped West Coast-Style Double IPA." 8.3% ABV.
Served cold into a conical pint glass.
AROMA: Caramalt, toast, marmalade, treacle.
Floral hop aromatics, pith, mango, fruit creamsicle, tangerine, papaya.
The back end is loaded with 2-row and caramalt sweetness. Seems warm alcohol wise and it has an English tug to it with the marmalade/caramalt flavours.
Suggests a slightly boozy IIPA with a pleasant but not standout hop profile that bends tropical.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Orange marmalade, tangerine creamsicle, and rich caramalt give this an English IPA-redolent open before additional layers of tropical fruit (papaya, mango), honeyed malt, and 2-row sweetness hit later on.
An obvious undertone of alcohol warmth is present throughout, and as sweet as it is from the slightly unwelcome richer malts (caramalt, maybe crystal malt), the beer still doesn't taste balanced.
Smooth, wet, medium to full-bodied, well carbonated, fairly thick, coating, filling. Has some heft on the palate, which when coupled with its obvious alcohol warmth makes it less drinkable than an IIPA like, say, Lagunitas' Lagunitas Sucks.
The honeyed sweetness and marmalade flavour disrupt the beer's build for me, taking it firmly away from the classic so-called "West Coast style" hop profile Weldwerks claims they were targeting. Not the classic C-hop hop profile or Amarillo/Simcoe/Citra hop profile I'd associate with classic San Diego-brewed IIPAs (which in my view are the gold standard for the style along with Russian River's expressions thereof).
OVERALL: It's drinkable but doesn't measure up to the best IIPAs brewed in Colorado, let alone most of the others brewed at Weldwerks. I don't love its hop profile, and even if I did its hop profile doesn't evoke the 2010-2015 Californian & Portlander IPAs I associate with the so-called "West Coast style"...it's a beer that doesn't succeed in doing what they set out to do and isn't terribly impressive as an IIPA in its own right outside their stated intentions.
I can't say it's a bad attempt at the style, but I'd much sooner pay less for Lagunitas Sucks or another good widely distributed expression of the style and I won't seek this one out in the future even if it is enjoyable enough and free of any off-flavours or faults.
C+ (3.15) / ABOVE AVERAGE
***
12/26/20:
C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
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