Laguna Tropical Pale Ale
Slipstream Brewing Co.
- From:
- Slipstream Brewing Co.
- Australia
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.22 | pDev: 3.42%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 22, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Shimmering pale gold like sand beneath the tropical sun, this fruity beauty is bursting with mango, pineapple, and guava characters. Perfect for long summer afternoons. Garnish with a little umbrella and a wedge of pineapple.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.33/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
3.33/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
I recognise that I'm stretching the envelope to add Laguna as a EPA Mild. But it is Mild. And it is is not hoppy like Aussie PAs and certainly not like APAs. So with envelope stretched, I sally forth.
Laguna could Look like more, more foam and more color. Also average for its "Style," Laguna's Smells could have more fruit and fewer hops. Tastes are balanced; but the EPA style typically has a long, lingering hop finish. Instead, Laguna attacks with hops and they dissipate. Light-mouthed. Oddly not refreshing, except maybe if your liquids are low.
My first from Slipstream, so I went on their website. A common story. Husband and wife team. Visits and gets inspiration from the American craft movement. Come back home and startup Down Under. Seven years later, they open their second taproom, this one in the Sunshine Coast. All good. All deserving of good Overall Hugs, particularly if they help folks keep their fluids up to meet the rigours of this climate. Cheers, Mates !
Nov 22, 2025Laguna could Look like more, more foam and more color. Also average for its "Style," Laguna's Smells could have more fruit and fewer hops. Tastes are balanced; but the EPA style typically has a long, lingering hop finish. Instead, Laguna attacks with hops and they dissipate. Light-mouthed. Oddly not refreshing, except maybe if your liquids are low.
My first from Slipstream, so I went on their website. A common story. Husband and wife team. Visits and gets inspiration from the American craft movement. Come back home and startup Down Under. Seven years later, they open their second taproom, this one in the Sunshine Coast. All good. All deserving of good Overall Hugs, particularly if they help folks keep their fluids up to meet the rigours of this climate. Cheers, Mates !
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
3.12/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Slipstream are on a bit of a roll lately with their tasty Southern Hemisphere limited release and now this Laguna Tropical Pale Ale - which is made with a selection of southern hemisphere hops... one might even assume they had an over-supply of hops from the last limited release, or that they just have a thing for southern hemisphere hops, either way: bottoms up! This American Pale Ale clocks in at a whopping 4.1% ABV and the name of this brew implies tropical fruit is the focus. Hopefully the low(ish) ABV doesn’t mean the flavour will be lacking, but hey it’s not easy to get a flavoursome beer that low, I still haven’t touched their Billy Cart Pale due to it being mid-strength (I’ve got way too many full-strength brews to review in the meantime).
Poured from a 375ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Hazed pale yellow body with a white head that is way too happy to see me [down boy!] at 1.5 inches, it drops back reasonably quick though leaving a wispy sea foam layer on top. Lot’s of carbonation action inside the glass with big bubbles, a bit too much action IMO. 6/10.
S: Grassy passionfruit hops to the fore, Galaxy my old friend, hints of peach and mango as well. Nothing noted malt-wise, which is fine for a hop-driven APA. Aroma is nice and lively, like the carbonation. 7/10.
T: Disappointingly on the lighter side flavour-wise. Hops to the fore with passionfruit, grassy, mango and rubbery notes. Malt is a thin dry biscuit layer that doesn’t really do much at all, just sits there in a wingback chair reading the newspaper like an old man “thanks for nothing malt!”. That said there’s really nothing wrong with the flavours or balance, it’s simply a boring APA sorry to say, which is exactly what I feared during in the preamble. 6/10.
M: Lightish, a bit watery and over-carbed - no match for other more sophisticated APAs out there in the beerosphere (aka Earth). 6/10.
D: As expected this was a “meh!” beer from Slipstream. It’s way too light in flavour and body, and one wonders why this was even brewed - who is the target audience? By now you would expect there is a niche for everyone that drinks beer from the tradie macro Lager drinkers, to the entry-level craft metros, all the way up to the fanatical hipster craft lovers. Slipstream have already won me (somewhat) over with their last limited release, why did they drop the ball here? 6/10.
Food match: Fish n’ chips with a garden salad.
Jan 07, 2018Poured from a 375ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Hazed pale yellow body with a white head that is way too happy to see me [down boy!] at 1.5 inches, it drops back reasonably quick though leaving a wispy sea foam layer on top. Lot’s of carbonation action inside the glass with big bubbles, a bit too much action IMO. 6/10.
S: Grassy passionfruit hops to the fore, Galaxy my old friend, hints of peach and mango as well. Nothing noted malt-wise, which is fine for a hop-driven APA. Aroma is nice and lively, like the carbonation. 7/10.
T: Disappointingly on the lighter side flavour-wise. Hops to the fore with passionfruit, grassy, mango and rubbery notes. Malt is a thin dry biscuit layer that doesn’t really do much at all, just sits there in a wingback chair reading the newspaper like an old man “thanks for nothing malt!”. That said there’s really nothing wrong with the flavours or balance, it’s simply a boring APA sorry to say, which is exactly what I feared during in the preamble. 6/10.
M: Lightish, a bit watery and over-carbed - no match for other more sophisticated APAs out there in the beerosphere (aka Earth). 6/10.
D: As expected this was a “meh!” beer from Slipstream. It’s way too light in flavour and body, and one wonders why this was even brewed - who is the target audience? By now you would expect there is a niche for everyone that drinks beer from the tradie macro Lager drinkers, to the entry-level craft metros, all the way up to the fanatical hipster craft lovers. Slipstream have already won me (somewhat) over with their last limited release, why did they drop the ball here? 6/10.
Food match: Fish n’ chips with a garden salad.
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