Head Banger
Strathcona Beer Company
- From:
- Strathcona Beer Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10.4%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 3.8%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 11, 2024
- Added:
- Dec 13, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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This Triple India Pale Ale is absolutely packed with Double Dry Hopped Galaxy, Enigma, Mosaic and Citra with a base of Pilsner malt, flaked wheat, oats and fermented with a special blend of secret yeast. Robust flavors of passionfruit, citrus and raspberry.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
3.85/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Can: Poured a slightly hazy/cloudy yellow color ale with a large white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of citrusy hoppy notes with some light tropical floral hops undertones. Taste is also a good mix of citrusy hoppy notes with some mango/tropical juicy citrus hops notes and floral undertones and some residual sugar. Body is below average with good carbonation. Easy drinking double NEIPA with great tropical flavors.
Jan 11, 2024
Rated by Vancurious
4.01/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Enjoying the sweet bitter experience. Really getting the hops, alcohol percentage is deceivingly innocent.
Oct 25, 2023
Rated by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.9/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
fresh n good. from bowen Island. tasty and hop forward without rough edges.
Feb 09, 2021
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Strathcona Beer 'Head Banger' Triple IPA @ 9.5% , served from a 473 ml can
A-pour is light gold from the can to a hazy gold in the glass with a medium white head , leaving a spotty lace along the Spiegelau
S-tons of dry hopping
T-floral more than fruit triple IPA , dry finish
MF-ok decent carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-big beer , careful sneeky ABV buzz
prost LampertLand
Jun 07, 2020A-pour is light gold from the can to a hazy gold in the glass with a medium white head , leaving a spotty lace along the Spiegelau
S-tons of dry hopping
T-floral more than fruit triple IPA , dry finish
MF-ok decent carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-big beer , careful sneeky ABV buzz
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by AmeriCanadian from Tennessee
3.8/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
16 oz / 473 mL can of unknown age poured into a tulip glass.
Yellow-gold coloring, medium haze, fully opaque, with zero turbidity. Mild off-white head with minimal retention and spotty lacing. Solid-looking but not really very memorable.
This is a big boy on the nose. Has that West Coast imperial IPA thing going for it up front, with sweet malts, huge dankness, pine, and overripe citrus. Smells boozy, but in a good way. Add sweet wine grapes, mango, raspberry, hemp, and a little mint. Very fruity but extremely dank.
There's a fair amount of heat on the tongue, but the 10% isn't as obvious as it could be. The flavor profile isn't nearly as tight and nuanced as the nose. Lots of sweet malts, resin, citrus, and stone fruit, but unfortunately there's an astringent, medicinal element on the back end. Like fruit-flavored medicine or way-overripe berries, though not nearly that sweet. Perhaps it's just the booze coming through on the tongue. Perhaps this can is old and the hops have fallen off dramatically, leaving behind dank, syrupy malt sweetness that's kind of morphed into something else. Whatever it is, it's drinkable (despite my poor stabs at describing it, above) but fairly extreme and definitely not what I was hoping for after the nose.
Feel is full and coating without being syrupy, largely flat, and a little hot. Would be curious to try a can or glass that I know is fresh to see if my experience was negatively impacted by age.
Jan 12, 2020Yellow-gold coloring, medium haze, fully opaque, with zero turbidity. Mild off-white head with minimal retention and spotty lacing. Solid-looking but not really very memorable.
This is a big boy on the nose. Has that West Coast imperial IPA thing going for it up front, with sweet malts, huge dankness, pine, and overripe citrus. Smells boozy, but in a good way. Add sweet wine grapes, mango, raspberry, hemp, and a little mint. Very fruity but extremely dank.
There's a fair amount of heat on the tongue, but the 10% isn't as obvious as it could be. The flavor profile isn't nearly as tight and nuanced as the nose. Lots of sweet malts, resin, citrus, and stone fruit, but unfortunately there's an astringent, medicinal element on the back end. Like fruit-flavored medicine or way-overripe berries, though not nearly that sweet. Perhaps it's just the booze coming through on the tongue. Perhaps this can is old and the hops have fallen off dramatically, leaving behind dank, syrupy malt sweetness that's kind of morphed into something else. Whatever it is, it's drinkable (despite my poor stabs at describing it, above) but fairly extreme and definitely not what I was hoping for after the nose.
Feel is full and coating without being syrupy, largely flat, and a little hot. Would be curious to try a can or glass that I know is fresh to see if my experience was negatively impacted by age.
Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
4.27/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a 473ml can. 55 IBU. This Triple India Pale Ale is packed with Double Dry Hopped Galaxy, Enigma, Mosaic and Citra with a base of Maris Otter, Bohemian Pilsner, golden oats, flaked wheat and fermented with a special blend of secret yeast.(from Canadian Beer News)
Pours a off clear orange/amber with a thin white head. The nose is awesome full of citrus and tropical fruits.
At 10.4 ABV this one hits hard but it is hidden very well.
Super tasty Triple IPA but take it slow it is a Head Banger.
Dec 13, 2018Pours a off clear orange/amber with a thin white head. The nose is awesome full of citrus and tropical fruits.
At 10.4 ABV this one hits hard but it is hidden very well.
Super tasty Triple IPA but take it slow it is a Head Banger.
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