3-way IPA Wet Hop Collaboration
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.4 | pDev: 6.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 03, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 01, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.22/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.22/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Appearance - Pours a medium amber with three fingers of foamy off-white head.
Smell - leafy, floral, citrus, and earthy hops, hint of grapefuit peel, bready caramel malts, spicy yeast, toffee, and candied fruit aromas.
Taste - Leafy,floral, citrus, and earthy hops upfront which are very mild followed by the bready caramel malts, toffee, and candied fruit. The hint of grapefruit is non-existent while the yeast is there. Very malt forward which is disappointing.
Mouthfeel - Light to medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes off dry with the malty sweetness lingering.
Overall - An IPA that started off with promise but did not quite deliver in the taste. Disappointing that this is very malt forward and the freshness of the hops were non-existent.
Dec 17, 2017Smell - leafy, floral, citrus, and earthy hops, hint of grapefuit peel, bready caramel malts, spicy yeast, toffee, and candied fruit aromas.
Taste - Leafy,floral, citrus, and earthy hops upfront which are very mild followed by the bready caramel malts, toffee, and candied fruit. The hint of grapefruit is non-existent while the yeast is there. Very malt forward which is disappointing.
Mouthfeel - Light to medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes off dry with the malty sweetness lingering.
Overall - An IPA that started off with promise but did not quite deliver in the taste. Disappointing that this is very malt forward and the freshness of the hops were non-existent.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.32/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.32/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473ml can, a collaboration with Common Crown Brewing and Northern Girls Hopyard. Wow, the Big Rock marketing department managed to find 3 different ways to say '3-way' on the label pap - congrats!
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some dissipating fog bank lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells weakly of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, a bit of candied fruitiness, and very, very subtle earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, thin toffee, some sweet orange, lemon, and berry-like fruity esters, a hint of yeast, and more well understated weedy, herbal, and musky floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, and mostly still good 'n malty - the hops, if anything, turning a bit metallic.
Overall - yeah, this is an offering for the gateway crowd, as Alberta hops don't seem to yet possess the gusto to which we have become accustomed in our IPAs. Not a bad brew, just underwhelming, and I'm starting to wish that I had 2 other people to share the rest of this with.
Dec 07, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some dissipating fog bank lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells weakly of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, a bit of candied fruitiness, and very, very subtle earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, thin toffee, some sweet orange, lemon, and berry-like fruity esters, a hint of yeast, and more well understated weedy, herbal, and musky floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, and mostly still good 'n malty - the hops, if anything, turning a bit metallic.
Overall - yeah, this is an offering for the gateway crowd, as Alberta hops don't seem to yet possess the gusto to which we have become accustomed in our IPAs. Not a bad brew, just underwhelming, and I'm starting to wish that I had 2 other people to share the rest of this with.
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