Is West Coast IPA Okay?
BlackStack Brewing
- From:
- BlackStack Brewing
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.3%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 8.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 13, 2022
- Added:
- Jul 02, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This crisp and clean experimental IPA features Simcoe, Mosaic and Strata hops.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota
3.13/5 rDev -17%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.13/5 rDev -17%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
16 oz can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.
L: Pours clear, bright straw yellow with a 1.5 inch soapy white head with okay retention down to edge foam. Light sticky lacing. Fair carbonation. No sediment whatsoever.
S: Lightly tropical, melon, white bread dough, stone fruit. It is very lightly dank alongside light alcohol as the beer warms.
T: Sweet bready malts, perhaps pilsner malts??, caramel, grains, light citrus, melon and melon rind. Light bitterness lingers. Fairly well balanced.
F: Crisp, clean, medium-light bodied mouthfeel with a medium length finish. It drinks and feels like a strong pilsner actually.
O: Kind of out of it's style it has the taste and feel of a sweet, highly hopped pilsner. Less WCIPA than most in the style, it drinks easily and is fairly tasty. It is good overall.
Nov 11, 2021L: Pours clear, bright straw yellow with a 1.5 inch soapy white head with okay retention down to edge foam. Light sticky lacing. Fair carbonation. No sediment whatsoever.
S: Lightly tropical, melon, white bread dough, stone fruit. It is very lightly dank alongside light alcohol as the beer warms.
T: Sweet bready malts, perhaps pilsner malts??, caramel, grains, light citrus, melon and melon rind. Light bitterness lingers. Fairly well balanced.
F: Crisp, clean, medium-light bodied mouthfeel with a medium length finish. It drinks and feels like a strong pilsner actually.
O: Kind of out of it's style it has the taste and feel of a sweet, highly hopped pilsner. Less WCIPA than most in the style, it drinks easily and is fairly tasty. It is good overall.
Reviewed by chum_husk from Minnesota
3.71/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
16oz pounder
It isn't hazy but it had big ole nasty looking chunks of sediment in mine: this is a major plus in my book. Smells mildly dank and stank. Drinks very dank and like ripened grapefruit, tangerine, and armpit (in a good way)
Banger, but eh at the same time. Not exactly to style, as the other complainers have noted
Oct 22, 2021It isn't hazy but it had big ole nasty looking chunks of sediment in mine: this is a major plus in my book. Smells mildly dank and stank. Drinks very dank and like ripened grapefruit, tangerine, and armpit (in a good way)
Banger, but eh at the same time. Not exactly to style, as the other complainers have noted
Reviewed by morimech from Minnesota
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Is it West Coast just because it isn't hazy? Those are my thoughts. Hardly any bitterness and still kind of sweet. The hops give it a citrus and tropical fruit flavor. A little bit of herbal and catty sneaks in to alter the hop profile. It tastes good, just not West Coast.
Oct 21, 2021
Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona
3.87/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a slight haze golden straw color. Smell is fruity and tropical. Notes of citrus,berry and mango. Mouth feel is semi-bitter with not a lot of malt, not a fan was not very WC to style more like anAPA to me.
Jul 13, 2020
Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
4/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Can. White head with lace. Cloudy yellow gold.
Tastes almost too juicy to be a west coast ipa. It’s not a NE ipa, but it deohas a juicy vibe. Mango and orange with a bit of melon. Earthy and floral. I just don’t get much dank or resin. There is a lot of bitterness in the finish. Tough to rate this one. Great ipa, but not what I want in a west coast.
Jul 11, 2020Tastes almost too juicy to be a west coast ipa. It’s not a NE ipa, but it deohas a juicy vibe. Mango and orange with a bit of melon. Earthy and floral. I just don’t get much dank or resin. There is a lot of bitterness in the finish. Tough to rate this one. Great ipa, but not what I want in a west coast.
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