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Lupu-Luau IPA
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- From:
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- Delaware, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.3%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 10.29%
- Reviews:
- 123
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 16, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 25, 2017
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 88
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
The first Hawaiian Luau in 1819 bucked tradition while maintaining respect for a rich legacy, so when we set out to create this namesake IPA, we found our own way to rebel against restrictive limits of known brewing ingredients while honoring Dogfish's brewing tradition.
What began as an exploration of all things hazy and pale, Lupu-Luau morphed into a coconut-centric IPA. We combined Pils malt with flaked barley, rolled oats, and malted and raw wheat to bring the haze. Then we brought coconut to the party in 3 different ways with toasted coconut, dehydrated coconut water and an experimental hop variety that provides a unique coconut & woody aromas.
What began as an exploration of all things hazy and pale, Lupu-Luau morphed into a coconut-centric IPA. We combined Pils malt with flaked barley, rolled oats, and malted and raw wheat to bring the haze. Then we brought coconut to the party in 3 different ways with toasted coconut, dehydrated coconut water and an experimental hop variety that provides a unique coconut & woody aromas.
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Ratings by StoutElk_92:
Reviewed by StoutElk_92 from Massachusetts
4.42/5 rDev +16.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.42/5 rDev +16.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
12 oz. bottled on 06/24/17
Pours hazy gold with a dense creamy frothy white foam head. Smells like coconut, vanilla, grapefruit, pineapple, passionfruit, orange citrus, caramelized crackery malts, with floral woody earthy herbal grassy pine. Tastes like coconut, vanilla, grapefruit, pineapple, passionfruit, orange citrus, caramelized crackery malt, with bitter floral woody earthy herbal grassy pine. Feels medium bodied, creamy with smooth moderate carbonation. Overall a nice and interesting coconut IPA.
Jul 12, 2017Pours hazy gold with a dense creamy frothy white foam head. Smells like coconut, vanilla, grapefruit, pineapple, passionfruit, orange citrus, caramelized crackery malts, with floral woody earthy herbal grassy pine. Tastes like coconut, vanilla, grapefruit, pineapple, passionfruit, orange citrus, caramelized crackery malt, with bitter floral woody earthy herbal grassy pine. Feels medium bodied, creamy with smooth moderate carbonation. Overall a nice and interesting coconut IPA.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by hman43 from North Carolina
3.81/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Look: It pours golden and clear with a full slightly off white head. Head retention is excellent.
Smell: The initial aromas are of coconut and tropical fruit with pineapple. There is a very low level of oat and grainy sweetness.
Taste: It has several flavors going on at one time which include coconut, tropical fruit, citrus and a light floral note. There is a very low level of grainy sweetness.
Feel: It has a medium body with a slight bite to the bitterness.
Overall, the flavors blend together fairly well to create an interesting ipa.
Jun 14, 2019Smell: The initial aromas are of coconut and tropical fruit with pineapple. There is a very low level of oat and grainy sweetness.
Taste: It has several flavors going on at one time which include coconut, tropical fruit, citrus and a light floral note. There is a very low level of grainy sweetness.
Feel: It has a medium body with a slight bite to the bitterness.
Overall, the flavors blend together fairly well to create an interesting ipa.
Reviewed by rapayn01 from Kentucky
3.75/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Had a small pour on a flight in September 2017 at a local pizza parlor. It was not a bad IPA, especially if you like the flavor of coconut. Oddly, I like coconut flavor (in Asian foods, for example), but not the grainy texture when it's used in baked goods.
May 11, 2019
Rated by Oh_Dark_Star from Washington
4.38/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.38/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
This one has a creamy quality which surprisingly seems to come from the coconut.
May 04, 2019
Reviewed by CHickman from New York
3.75/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Looks hazy gold color with a 1-2 finger off white head that faded slowly and left good spotty lacing. Smells of coconut, pineapple, orange, lime, lemonade and biscuit. It smells and tastes like a pina colada, but not in a fake way.
Apr 07, 2019
Reviewed by Act25 from New Jersey
3.92/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
This is more unusual and better than BAers say. A little too much coconut, but less than Oskars.
a) Pours creamy, hazy golden body crowned with lasting and massively lacing head.
s) Passionfruit, pineapple and citrus fruit aromas are too slight over coconut.
t) This fruit salad erupts with powerful flavors with that additional, odd and strong vanilla-coconut back drop. Laid out on a bready, fresh crossant, buttery base.
f) The feel is creamy, buttery and yet puckery. Complex warring but balanced textures are great.
o) The fruit and vanilla clean up nicely with a bitter, fresh hoppy ending. Truly original and would offer my friends.
Mar 28, 2019a) Pours creamy, hazy golden body crowned with lasting and massively lacing head.
s) Passionfruit, pineapple and citrus fruit aromas are too slight over coconut.
t) This fruit salad erupts with powerful flavors with that additional, odd and strong vanilla-coconut back drop. Laid out on a bready, fresh crossant, buttery base.
f) The feel is creamy, buttery and yet puckery. Complex warring but balanced textures are great.
o) The fruit and vanilla clean up nicely with a bitter, fresh hoppy ending. Truly original and would offer my friends.
Lupu-Luau IPA from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
401 ratings
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