Triple IPA
West Side Brewing

12 ounce can, date of 04/18/25 stamped on the bottom. Thanks to Brutaltruth for this! Served in a Teku glass, the beer pours a somewhat hazy golden/orange color with about an inch off-white head that stuck around a while and has a nice amount of lacing. I like the aroma, the brew smells like grapefruit, tropical fruit, apricot, pine and some orange peel. For the most part the taste is similar to the aroma, but with the addition of some bready malt flavors. There's also a nice hoppy bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel/body is medium/full, it's coating and a bit creamy with a good amount of carbonation. I liked this one, definitely worth trying if you get the chance!

I'm trying this off the tapper at the brewery as part of a four sample flight. It poured a clear golden with white head that is leaving some lace. The scent had citrus and pine resin notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with good citrus peel and pine resin presence. The mouthfeel was medium in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a solid beer.

Pours a cloudy copper with a finger of foam, quickly dissipating to a white ring and soapy lacing. Nose is tropical fruit, oranges and roasted malt. Taste follows suit in that order with a nice chewy malty finish. Overall; pretty good.

 

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned on 3/23/21. Pours a slightly cloudy orange with a 2 finger off white head that leaves massive trails of lace with exceptional lace. 4.5

Aroma is pine, biscuit, marijuana, tangerine, apricot, and a big whiff of grapefruit rind. 4.25

Taste follows pine, marijuana, tangerine, biscuit, apricot, and grapefruit lingers on the palate sip after bold sip. 4.25

Mouthfeel is big, plenty of life, maybe a little dry, and at 12.5% I think the alcohol is hidden very well with a ton of flavor, but still really easy drinking. 4.25

Overall this is best high alcohol West Coast Style TIPA I have had in a long time. Man is this a nice change on the palate. 4.25 Thanks jzeilinger for this impressive brew. 4.25

 

Canned on 03-23-21.

A - Dark gold color with light carbonation and dense white, creamy lacing.

S - Dank and juicy citrus, tropical fruit, passion fruit, and berry.

T - Crackery malt base with lots of citrus, spice, and pine over the top. Finishes on the piney side with a pleasant lingering bitterness and citrus residue. Initially, the ABV totally slaps you, while subsiding a little bit, it doesn't completely go away and even wreaks a little bit of havoc on the overall flavor.

M - Thick, viscous, and full bodied with prickly carbonation giving way to a soft creamy texture on the tongue. There's warming in the back of the throat as it oozes down your pie hole.

O - This is a boozy little monkey, be forewarned.

 

 

 

From the growler in a snifter via The Growler Stop in New Town.
This mighty fine imperial pours a luminous chill hazed golden amber
with a nice head of white foam that settles to a thick ring, thick layer,
and shows some excellent lacing. Nose of sticky pine, pineapple, mango,
papaya, and sweet honey malts with subtle alcohol notes. Flavors hit the
right note with honey sweet malts and subtle light breaded malts over a
heavy layer of pine and citrus hop notes. Pineapple and papaya join mango
and herbal hops, yet are balanced with a solid malt backbone and subtle
grain notes amongst the booze. Nice mouth feel; medium body, smooth,
sticky, medium light carbonation that is refreshing, and a medium dry and
very tropical/pine accentuated warming finish.

Excellent----and I am no hop head, but this one rocks.

Cheers