West Coast IPA (Circa 1998)
Zebulon Artisan Ales
- From:
- Zebulon Artisan Ales
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.37 | pDev: 3.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 02, 2026
- Added:
- Apr 08, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wmeckley44 from Tennessee
4.61/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.61/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
On tap at Zebulon in Weaverville NC, into a becher pint.
Pours a rich, dark gold with some good offwhite foam. Aroma is mandarin oranges, pine, rosemary, and juicy grapefruit. Flavor is heavy on the grapefruit and rosemary, with the pine being a little secondary. I get some juniper as well and it's smoothly, deliciously bitter. Amber malts come in on the back end to smooth out the bitterness and it ends a little sticky but very clean. Feel is great, just heavy enough to seem like an IPA but very easy drinking with a crazy long finish.
Overall, this reminds me of 3Floyds, especially Zombie Ice, but with a much smoother, more restrained bitterness, much more complexity, and a lot better mouthfeel. The sort of heavy grapefruit and malt forward combination is extremely familiar but so much more refined here. What a beautiful beer.
May 02, 2026Pours a rich, dark gold with some good offwhite foam. Aroma is mandarin oranges, pine, rosemary, and juicy grapefruit. Flavor is heavy on the grapefruit and rosemary, with the pine being a little secondary. I get some juniper as well and it's smoothly, deliciously bitter. Amber malts come in on the back end to smooth out the bitterness and it ends a little sticky but very clean. Feel is great, just heavy enough to seem like an IPA but very easy drinking with a crazy long finish.
Overall, this reminds me of 3Floyds, especially Zombie Ice, but with a much smoother, more restrained bitterness, much more complexity, and a lot better mouthfeel. The sort of heavy grapefruit and malt forward combination is extremely familiar but so much more refined here. What a beautiful beer.
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