Hop-Wah Phonic IPA
Settle Down Easy Brewing Company
- From:
- Settle Down Easy Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.4%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 5.82%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 19, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 03, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Our West Coast IPA boasting pure flavor and aroma. A lovely blend of West Coast hops, this beer is extremely approachable for everyone. Tropical, fruity, a pretty straw color, and a light body allow the hops to take center stage, plug in, and let it rip.
57 IBU
57 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by RBorsato from Virginia
4/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Clear gold. Tropical, citrusy and fruity West Coast IPA. Good balance with solid bitterness. Medium bodied with a dry bitter finish.
Dec 15, 2025
Reviewed by jmdrpi from Pennsylvania
3.89/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.89/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
On draft at the brewery
Clear, yellow gold color, foamy white head. Citrusy hop aroma. Taste is similar, with clean bitterness. Mwdium bodied. Pretty faithful WC IPA
Feb 16, 2023Clear, yellow gold color, foamy white head. Citrusy hop aroma. Taste is similar, with clean bitterness. Mwdium bodied. Pretty faithful WC IPA
Reviewed by VABA from Virginia
4.09/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.09/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A-Pours a very nice light amber color with a slight head and lacing
A-Aroma had tropical, fruity and citrus hints
T-The taste follows the nose with tropical, fruity and citrus flavors
M-A light bodied slightly carbonated beer
O-A nice West Coast IPA
Jul 20, 2019A-Aroma had tropical, fruity and citrus hints
T-The taste follows the nose with tropical, fruity and citrus flavors
M-A light bodied slightly carbonated beer
O-A nice West Coast IPA
Reviewed by Bloodbuzz99 from Georgia
4.15/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Had on tap at brewery 5.17.19
Easily the best of the beers I sampled. It’s the new version of the old school west coast IPA that are seeing a rebirth. The hop profile leans slightly more medicinal than piney.
May 20, 2019Easily the best of the beers I sampled. It’s the new version of the old school west coast IPA that are seeing a rebirth. The hop profile leans slightly more medicinal than piney.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.96/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
On tap at brewery (revised week later):
Nice clear golden with a foamy white head. It did take the beertender a few pulls of the tap to clear the head from the thin IPA glass. Nice lacing that slowly fades to persistent spots.
A slightly pungent hop-forward smell, with a tolerable amount of onion/garlic. Mix of grass (both kinds) and light grapefruit pith mainly.
A week later the pungency has faded a tad and the pith has become a tad more prevalent.
Taste has a decent clean malt backbone, with a bit of bite from both carbonation and onion bite. Quick mellowing produces lemongrass, herbal hops, slight dankness, and a bit of a lemon-citrus accent. The beer leans slightly bitter until the very end, where a dry, slightly sticky feel exposes a deeper, resinous bitterness.
A week later l am getting a little bit more earth up front, but it’s still fairly herbal. The lemon citrus accent rolls into a more grapefruit pithy taste than I got last week.
This is a nice IPA that is fairly bitter but won’t rake your tongue with the levels of it. Fresh, it reminded me somewhat of Stone’s base IPAs, and I’d have been interested to do a side-by-side of them. With the added earth tones I’m getting today, it isn’t reminding me of the classic at all any more.
Mar 29, 2019Nice clear golden with a foamy white head. It did take the beertender a few pulls of the tap to clear the head from the thin IPA glass. Nice lacing that slowly fades to persistent spots.
A slightly pungent hop-forward smell, with a tolerable amount of onion/garlic. Mix of grass (both kinds) and light grapefruit pith mainly.
A week later the pungency has faded a tad and the pith has become a tad more prevalent.
Taste has a decent clean malt backbone, with a bit of bite from both carbonation and onion bite. Quick mellowing produces lemongrass, herbal hops, slight dankness, and a bit of a lemon-citrus accent. The beer leans slightly bitter until the very end, where a dry, slightly sticky feel exposes a deeper, resinous bitterness.
A week later l am getting a little bit more earth up front, but it’s still fairly herbal. The lemon citrus accent rolls into a more grapefruit pithy taste than I got last week.
This is a nice IPA that is fairly bitter but won’t rake your tongue with the levels of it. Fresh, it reminded me somewhat of Stone’s base IPAs, and I’d have been interested to do a side-by-side of them. With the added earth tones I’m getting today, it isn’t reminding me of the classic at all any more.
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