West Coast Kiwi
North Park Beer Company

Type: 16-oz. can
Reviewed as: American IPA
Glass: Melvin 14-oz. Spiegelau IPA glass
Price: $16.99 for a 4-pack
From: North Park Beer Company in North Park (San Diego), Calif.
Purchased: June 26, 2020
Consumed: June 28, 2020
Misc.: Canned on June 12, 2020

Split a 4-pack of this with Sonny. The online description read, “Grab your board and ride this glorious wave of New Zealand hopped liquid that's as good as gold! Generously double dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin, Moutere, Wai-iti, and New Zealand grown Cascade comes together with citrusy notes of lime zest, tangerine, and grapefruit, punchy tropical fruity flavors of guava, lychee, and passion fruit, some stone fruity peach and apricot, all crashing into pine forest and danky resins in the background. Yeah nah, this bird can surf bruh!”

Poured a medium yellow clear color with 1-to-2 fingers of off-white frothy head. Could see lots of bubbles coming up along the sides and bottom of the glass. Decent lacing. Good retention. (Sight - 3.75)

Smelled green vegetable, pine forest, resin, grapefruit peel, stone fruit, peach, apricot, tangerine rind and lime zest. For hops I think more Cascade than anything else. Didn’t get much Nelson, and not that familiar with Moutere and Wai’iti. A little better out of the can. (Smell - 3.75)

Taste followed the nose for the most part. In order got green vegetable, pine forest, resin, caramel malt, grapefruit peel, stone fruit, peach, apricot, Cascade, lime zest, tangerine rind and black pepper. (Taste - 3.75)

Medium body. Oily texture. Average carbonation. Bitter finish. This was the best part of this beer in my opinion. (Feel - 4.25)

Was hoping for more, but a very good American IPA. (Overall - 3.75)

3.80 | 86 | B+

Amber color with adequate foam in the Leute Bokbier glass. Slim bodied with less spritz than a lot of IPAs. It's an interesting mix of hops. Aroma hints at peach with the usual dank and resiny notes. The flavor is quite lemony, or perhaps unripe honeydew melon with lime juice squeezed on it.

Tangy with a stemmy astringency. Some mineral taste and modest bitterness in the aftertaste. And the bitterness does go on but not unpleasantly. Overall, quite drinkable From the 16 oz can purchased from Bine & Vine.

 

Can from beer mule Watsonville.
Approximately 10 days old.
Look: clear light amber, fluffy white dense head.
Smell: Nelson dankness, stonefruit.
Taste: Dank, grassy and sweet fruity combo. Honey. Mild cereal. Mildly bitter.
Feel: medium, dry. Perfect wcipa feel. Not too thin but keeps you wanting more.
Overall: this is an awesome wcipa. It has everything you could want.