Broken Islands
Vancouver Island Brewing
- From:
- Vancouver Island Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
Ranked #1,499 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #20,853 - Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 4.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 31, 2026
- Added:
- Jul 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
This hazy IPA is anything but expected. There’s some something new to be discovered around every corner: bold citrus aromas and flavours lead to a lingering, juicy finish.
57 IBU
57 IBU
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.57/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
1600th review!
Appearance - Pours a hazy gold pineapple with three fingers of frothy white head.
Smell - citrus and earthy hops, citrus and orange peel, hint of peach, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - mild citrus and earthy hops upfront. The citrus, orange peel, and hint of peach are lost in translation as the bready malts dominate this brew. The earthy yeast rounds out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the hops and malts lingering.
Overall - A brew that started off on the right foot. However, this brew doesn't do the New England IPA characterization well. If this were an APA then it would be different story, alas.
Aug 01, 2020Appearance - Pours a hazy gold pineapple with three fingers of frothy white head.
Smell - citrus and earthy hops, citrus and orange peel, hint of peach, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - mild citrus and earthy hops upfront. The citrus, orange peel, and hint of peach are lost in translation as the bready malts dominate this brew. The earthy yeast rounds out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the hops and malts lingering.
Overall - A brew that started off on the right foot. However, this brew doesn't do the New England IPA characterization well. If this were an APA then it would be different story, alas.
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3.94/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Look: Cloudy dark straw color. Moderate head that died down after a couple of minutes but still covered the surface. Foam stayed on the side of the glass after the head had dropped.
Smell: Yeast and bread scents. Swirling the glass kicked up a bitter resin scent of the hops.
Taste: Nutty malt flavor predominates. Hops are well balanced and continue the resin scent as a flavor. Bitters are present from the beginning through the aftertaste.
Feel: Builds to a thick, chewy foam.
Overall: Good representative of the style. I would have liked to have some florals pop from the hops, but the resin flavor is a nice differentiator. The bitters add up from mouthful to mouthful, in much the same way as some hot pepper dishes build up through a meal.
May 03, 2019Smell: Yeast and bread scents. Swirling the glass kicked up a bitter resin scent of the hops.
Taste: Nutty malt flavor predominates. Hops are well balanced and continue the resin scent as a flavor. Bitters are present from the beginning through the aftertaste.
Feel: Builds to a thick, chewy foam.
Overall: Good representative of the style. I would have liked to have some florals pop from the hops, but the resin flavor is a nice differentiator. The bitters add up from mouthful to mouthful, in much the same way as some hot pepper dishes build up through a meal.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.77/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Vancouver Island Brewing 'Broken Islands' @ 6.0% , served from a 473 ml can
A-pour is a light gold from the can to a hazy gold in the glass with a medium white head leaving a spotty lace along the spielgelau
S-citrus
T-fruity
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-still not a fan of NEIPA
prost LampertLand
Apr 21, 2019A-pour is a light gold from the can to a hazy gold in the glass with a medium white head leaving a spotty lace along the spielgelau
S-citrus
T-fruity
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-still not a fan of NEIPA
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by ExVashonGujy from Washington
3.91/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
If the brewery didn't call this a "Hazy IPA", I wouldn't have known it. I'm not a big fan of NE IPAs, but I've had several, and they are usually lighter in color and creamier in mouthfeel. This one has a typical IPA appearance, and it's just slightly cloudy. Nothing like what some folks call "murkbombs." That's a plus, not a minus, to me.
This beer is a slightly malty IPA, hoppy in aroma and taste. It's got a little bit of fruit, but less than many IPAs. It's slightly sweet.
Overall, it's a very good IPA.
Nov 02, 2018This beer is a slightly malty IPA, hoppy in aroma and taste. It's got a little bit of fruit, but less than many IPAs. It's slightly sweet.
Overall, it's a very good IPA.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.72/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - so named after an apparently complex chain of islands off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves a bit of random splotchy lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and grainy pale malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, some hard water stoniness, and plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, orange and red grapefruit citrus peel, some damp minerality, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hops showing the most lingering gusto.
Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the IPA sub-style, nailing pretty much all of the typical talking points. Simple in its bearing, and easy to put back on a waning September (wait, what?) afternoon. Good to see this brewery stepping up its game of late, I gotta say!
Sep 01, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves a bit of random splotchy lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and grainy pale malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, some hard water stoniness, and plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, orange and red grapefruit citrus peel, some damp minerality, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hops showing the most lingering gusto.
Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the IPA sub-style, nailing pretty much all of the typical talking points. Simple in its bearing, and easy to put back on a waning September (wait, what?) afternoon. Good to see this brewery stepping up its game of late, I gotta say!
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