Bine
Root Down Brewing Company
- From:
- Root Down Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #1,262 - ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #14,553 - Avg:
- 4.05 | pDev: 8.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 16, 2026
- Added:
- Sep 02, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Ratings by DoubleSimcoe:
Rated by DoubleSimcoe from Pennsylvania
3.25/5 rDev -19.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Jun 30, 2018
3.25/5 rDev -19.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Jun 30, 2018
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by DavetotheB from Pennsylvania
3.94/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at Branch Creek Tap House
Darker in color-copper/gold.
Nice weedy dank aroma.
Earthy, piney, dirt, bitter in the taste department.
Sticky, full-bodied.
A well put together WCIPA.
Aug 30, 2024Darker in color-copper/gold.
Nice weedy dank aroma.
Earthy, piney, dirt, bitter in the taste department.
Sticky, full-bodied.
A well put together WCIPA.
Rated by 322wingedfoot from Pennsylvania
3.79/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pretty much a straight-forward West Coast IPA. No obvious canning date, so not sure how fresh — or not — this can was.
May 05, 2024
Reviewed by DIM from Pennsylvania
4.24/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Nice change of pace from all the tropical fruit bombs I've been having lately. Pithy grapefruit rind and bitter, resinous pine with scant caramel balance.
Jul 03, 2019
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.25/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I often feel like The CANQuest (tm) is outta CANtrol any more! I have a serious backlog that I am CANstantly trying to get caught up, people keep laying more CANs on me, I go to buy a few CANs & come home with a case … It is unreal! For insCANce, where in the h**l did this one come from? I was a frequent traveler to PHXville in 2015 when I was in training in KofP for the state, but Root Down did not exist back then! Me = scoobied.
From the CAN: "7.1% alc./vol."
That last bit may seem frivolous, but I lost a LOT of reviews when this site removed "Serving Style" & I now want to delineate when I have different serving styles.
I Crack!ed open the vent & beCAN a slow, gentle Glug on this CAN of unknown origin. I was highly relieved when it simply foamed up to form just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with excellent retention, leaving loads of lacing in its wake as it fell. Color was Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5) with NE-quality clarity, prompting an impromptu visit from The Gelt Gang of Croesus, Mammon & Midas, all clamoring for a taste. Nose was going really old skool with a smell of pine resin. That's it. Nothing else. Just pine. Unadorned. Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium-to-full, not quite creamy, but big for an AIPA. The taste was like licking pine sap running down the bark of a pine tree in the middle of a pine forest in the middle of winter as snow falls all around you. Lemme break it down for you - it was cool, minty, pine & unlike anything in recent memory. This was what AIPAs tasted like 20+ years ago! Not Black/Cascadian. Not tropical fruit. Pine and/or grapefruit. Simple, just like me. Finish was cool, dry, minty & redolent with pine. 8=O More, please! YMMV.
Mar 16, 2019From the CAN: "7.1% alc./vol."
That last bit may seem frivolous, but I lost a LOT of reviews when this site removed "Serving Style" & I now want to delineate when I have different serving styles.
I Crack!ed open the vent & beCAN a slow, gentle Glug on this CAN of unknown origin. I was highly relieved when it simply foamed up to form just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with excellent retention, leaving loads of lacing in its wake as it fell. Color was Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5) with NE-quality clarity, prompting an impromptu visit from The Gelt Gang of Croesus, Mammon & Midas, all clamoring for a taste. Nose was going really old skool with a smell of pine resin. That's it. Nothing else. Just pine. Unadorned. Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium-to-full, not quite creamy, but big for an AIPA. The taste was like licking pine sap running down the bark of a pine tree in the middle of a pine forest in the middle of winter as snow falls all around you. Lemme break it down for you - it was cool, minty, pine & unlike anything in recent memory. This was what AIPAs tasted like 20+ years ago! Not Black/Cascadian. Not tropical fruit. Pine and/or grapefruit. Simple, just like me. Finish was cool, dry, minty & redolent with pine. 8=O More, please! YMMV.
Reviewed by Casey3236 from Pennsylvania
4.4/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.4/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Hop profile is amazing. Resinous, piney. Don't hate this because you can see through it. As good as any of the IPAs out there today. Will drive keeps whenever I see it
Feb 19, 2019
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