Punch Bowl Grapefruit IPA
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 9.62%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 22, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 08, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Citra , Mosaic and Amarillo hops to create tropical , fruity flavours such as stone fruit , berries and melon.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
4.35/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Can: Poured a cloudy bright orangey color ale with a medium size foamy head with OK retention and some lacing. Aroma of fresh citrus hops with some grapefruit juice is quite enticing. Taste is a mix of fresh citrus hop with some grapefruit juices with some residuals sugar notes which offset most of the bitterness. Body is full with good carbonation. Great IPA and I liked the fact that the grapefruit notes are quite bold.
Nov 10, 2016
Reviewed by AMZB from Canada (ON)
2.98/5 rDev -24.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.98/5 rDev -24.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
I really loved the original Punch Bowl. I can't figure out why they would ruin it by adding grapefruit juice. The grapefruit is overpowering and doesn't really mix well with the flavour profile of the beer. A disappointment.
Jul 28, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473ml can - wow, the original Punch Bowl was citrusy enough, so I guess the answer is, more grapefruit, eh?
This beer pours a somewhat glassy, medium bronzed amber colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of fresh-squeezed red grapefruit juice, grainy pale malt, a touch of herbal and grassy green hoppiness, and some ne'er do-well metallic alcohol. The taste is bready and lightly honeyed caramel malt, Texas red grapefruit, some lesser orange and lemon/lime citrus zest, further sugary fruit notes, and a laid-back leafy, piney, and floral hop bitterness.
The carbonation is adequate for the supportive job at hand via its genteel frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, the various citrus esters more of the polished than raw sort, surprisingly. It finishes off-dry, the (grape)fruitiness still outweighing any lingering pale and/or caramel maltiness.
Overall, this is still quite refreshing, very much in the manner of its more pineapple-focused predecessor. Lots of various fruit beyond the titular guest star making gravy here, so much so that I might mistake this one for a trendy-ass radler, except, of course, for the mostly well-hidden 13-proof wowee sauce quotient. Good stuff - enjoy crushing this at the lake, or wherever, this summer.
Jul 24, 2016This beer pours a somewhat glassy, medium bronzed amber colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of fresh-squeezed red grapefruit juice, grainy pale malt, a touch of herbal and grassy green hoppiness, and some ne'er do-well metallic alcohol. The taste is bready and lightly honeyed caramel malt, Texas red grapefruit, some lesser orange and lemon/lime citrus zest, further sugary fruit notes, and a laid-back leafy, piney, and floral hop bitterness.
The carbonation is adequate for the supportive job at hand via its genteel frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, the various citrus esters more of the polished than raw sort, surprisingly. It finishes off-dry, the (grape)fruitiness still outweighing any lingering pale and/or caramel maltiness.
Overall, this is still quite refreshing, very much in the manner of its more pineapple-focused predecessor. Lots of various fruit beyond the titular guest star making gravy here, so much so that I might mistake this one for a trendy-ass radler, except, of course, for the mostly well-hidden 13-proof wowee sauce quotient. Good stuff - enjoy crushing this at the lake, or wherever, this summer.
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