IPA
Pump House Brewery
- From:
- Pump House Brewery
- New Brunswick, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 13.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 14
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 11, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 12, 2007
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 8
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
The first taste impression is of a very agreeable hop bitterness. Just enough to make you appreciate hops again, without being astringent or puckering. The citrus aroma plays very well together with the hop bitterness, while a pleasant maltiness in the background completes the picture of a prime example for a well balanced IPA.
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Reviewed by dbl_delta from Pennsylvania
3.43/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
On tap at The Pub on Main Street in St. George, NB. Pours a clear golden color with a very fluffy (almost doughy) head. Initial impression was a watery lager with some weak hops added as an afterthought. Not good. Avoid.
May 31, 2018
Reviewed by polloenfuego from Canada (NB)
2.98/5 rDev -19.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.98/5 rDev -19.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
For a craft brewer, this just not seem like something they should put their name on. Tastes malty and watery . There are hops there but not enough to offend "Joe six-pack" who I think is the target market. It's a weak offering and I would recommend avoiding it.
Dec 23, 2017
Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)
3.63/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Clear copper in colour with smallish head. Mild floral nose, firm malt backbone with crisp hoppy finish. Flavours more English than American.
Jun 06, 2017
Rated by Lewnanny from Canada (NB)
3.47/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.47/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A bit too much hop tasting, for me.
A good beer, but not in my prefered one
Sep 03, 2016A good beer, but not in my prefered one
Rated by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.66/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.66/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A nice beer, but the taste profile here is not what I think of when I think "West Coast IPA." Quite malty and well-balanced.
Sep 21, 2015
Reviewed by PorterPro125 from Canada (NB)
3.96/5 rDev +7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Serving Type: 341 mL Bottle
A- Pours a clear, light amber colour that is topped by a beautiful 1 1/2 finger white head. This beer leaves a ton of lacing on the glass. Although I don't normally comment on the appearance of packaging due to its lack of relevance on how great the beer is, I have to say that the label for this beer is damn beautiful. There is something about it's simplicity and rough paper texture that is just simply great.
S- The aroma of this beer is extremely floral. It almost seems like a perfume like (not in a bad way) scent with some citrus/ semi-sweet notes coming in. Extremely pleasant and I must say that it has to be the best smelling IPA I've had the pleasure to drink.
T- Like any well made beer, the taste almost perfectly mirrors the aroma. A ton of floral notes that are now backed (like the label states) by a perfect maltiness. The finish is a soft citrus bitterness. Extremely well balanced and extremely delicious.
M- Low to Medium carbonation with a medium body. This IPA is extremely smooth and easy to drink.
O- Although this is my first West Coast IPA and although it may not be a "true" West Coast IPA, I have to say that I fell instantly in love with the style. Its floral and citrus notes really sit well with me when compared to the other IPA's I've had. While this IPA is stated as having an 80 IBU rating, it drinks much like a beer with 40 IBU's or less. Sure, the bitterness is there but it isn't an upfront, sharp bitterness. It's more of a subtle, soft bitterness that doesn't make you cringe; it's a bitterness that a now much prefer. A recommend this beer to anyone looking to try out a great IPA and get a sample of what West Coast IPA's have to offer without going to the West Coast. This ale is extremely well made and has led me to seek out other offerings of the style. Two thumbs up from me!
Jan 11, 2015A- Pours a clear, light amber colour that is topped by a beautiful 1 1/2 finger white head. This beer leaves a ton of lacing on the glass. Although I don't normally comment on the appearance of packaging due to its lack of relevance on how great the beer is, I have to say that the label for this beer is damn beautiful. There is something about it's simplicity and rough paper texture that is just simply great.
S- The aroma of this beer is extremely floral. It almost seems like a perfume like (not in a bad way) scent with some citrus/ semi-sweet notes coming in. Extremely pleasant and I must say that it has to be the best smelling IPA I've had the pleasure to drink.
T- Like any well made beer, the taste almost perfectly mirrors the aroma. A ton of floral notes that are now backed (like the label states) by a perfect maltiness. The finish is a soft citrus bitterness. Extremely well balanced and extremely delicious.
M- Low to Medium carbonation with a medium body. This IPA is extremely smooth and easy to drink.
O- Although this is my first West Coast IPA and although it may not be a "true" West Coast IPA, I have to say that I fell instantly in love with the style. Its floral and citrus notes really sit well with me when compared to the other IPA's I've had. While this IPA is stated as having an 80 IBU rating, it drinks much like a beer with 40 IBU's or less. Sure, the bitterness is there but it isn't an upfront, sharp bitterness. It's more of a subtle, soft bitterness that doesn't make you cringe; it's a bitterness that a now much prefer. A recommend this beer to anyone looking to try out a great IPA and get a sample of what West Coast IPA's have to offer without going to the West Coast. This ale is extremely well made and has led me to seek out other offerings of the style. Two thumbs up from me!
Reviewed by Organdrew from Canada (QC)
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
Bought a pack at the local liquor branch, was debating my regular buy or this. Decided to support local and due to pumphouse from Moncton NB always being consistent in quality and value. Bought a 6-pack and drank straight from bottle.
Look: At first glance, Bottle looked like it was made in a basement, with cheap labelling. LAbel actually looks nice for some odd reason of its cheap paper quality and off-level label. cant judge a book by its cover. Bottle is mostly opaque, can't tell color of liquid inside.
Smell: yeast, malty, some sort of fruit... plums?
Taste: first sip gives way to sweetness. A fruit becomes instantly apparent.. then to bitterness, kinda like the opposite of sour patch kids. Hops' bitterness definitely apparent, but not overwhelming. Light compared to some other IPA and hop beers I've tried. slightly layered, with a hoppy front and matly sweet overtone or background. Nice balance.
Mouthfeel: not too heavy, not too light. medium. Well maybe a little on the lighter side for an IPA, but boldness is apparent so we can't call it light. slightly thick with apparent carbonation. Not too heavy or boozy but alcohol can be deduced if sought out.
Overall: I like this beer. I was skeptical due to it being cheaper and the label is rather unique, but nice. Moncton Pump house breweries is consistent in delivering taste and value. I wouldn't label this a top beer out there, but one I will buy again and enjoy. My fave style so far is IPA, the hoppyness is amicable, and the maltiness gives good balance and sweetness that wants you to take another drink. I would recommend, and is the best beer in this style i've tried. Boundary ale was my favorite, and this beer offers a slight different experience from the latter, less citrus and more sweetness. Kinda like if you would mix Innis and gunn with Boundary. Just my opinion. Okay so, good, tasty, recommended, will buy again, that's all you need to hear. Impressed!
Sep 13, 2014Look: At first glance, Bottle looked like it was made in a basement, with cheap labelling. LAbel actually looks nice for some odd reason of its cheap paper quality and off-level label. cant judge a book by its cover. Bottle is mostly opaque, can't tell color of liquid inside.
Smell: yeast, malty, some sort of fruit... plums?
Taste: first sip gives way to sweetness. A fruit becomes instantly apparent.. then to bitterness, kinda like the opposite of sour patch kids. Hops' bitterness definitely apparent, but not overwhelming. Light compared to some other IPA and hop beers I've tried. slightly layered, with a hoppy front and matly sweet overtone or background. Nice balance.
Mouthfeel: not too heavy, not too light. medium. Well maybe a little on the lighter side for an IPA, but boldness is apparent so we can't call it light. slightly thick with apparent carbonation. Not too heavy or boozy but alcohol can be deduced if sought out.
Overall: I like this beer. I was skeptical due to it being cheaper and the label is rather unique, but nice. Moncton Pump house breweries is consistent in delivering taste and value. I wouldn't label this a top beer out there, but one I will buy again and enjoy. My fave style so far is IPA, the hoppyness is amicable, and the maltiness gives good balance and sweetness that wants you to take another drink. I would recommend, and is the best beer in this style i've tried. Boundary ale was my favorite, and this beer offers a slight different experience from the latter, less citrus and more sweetness. Kinda like if you would mix Innis and gunn with Boundary. Just my opinion. Okay so, good, tasty, recommended, will buy again, that's all you need to hear. Impressed!
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.9/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
341ml bottle, 6.5% ABV. Simple paper label, which for some reason resonates with me, perhaps because of its resemblance to old-school hockey jerseys.
This beer pours a clear, medium orange-brick amber hue, with two flabby fingers of puffy and tightly foamy ecru head, which leaves a bit of patchy, sudsy lace in spots around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet bready caramel malt, nougat, a touch of treacle, orange cream, lemon and grapefruit bitters, and some increasingly prominent floral, almost perfumed (gee, I wonder why?) hops. The taste is softly bitter grapefruit and orange flesh, sweet caramel/toffee malt, more candy-bar nougat goodness, an indistinct darker fruitiness, and leafy, floral, and mildly spicy hops.
The carbonation is quite low-key, and innocuous in its ethereal frothiness, the body a decently solid medium weight, and rather smooth, the malt muffling the hops' meek attempt at insurrection here. It finishes on the sweet side, the slow burning story more about the complex and complicated malt than any kind of hoppy kick to the teeth.
Another example of the pain we Canucks must endure in defining many of our well-made, homegrown IPAs - are they English, or are they American? Well, often, they are neither, in fact they fall predictably somewhere in the middle - very much like the rest of our perceptible culture. Let's just call this tasty, then - more malty than hoppy (but still with oodles 'n oodles of both), and worthy of the Canadian proto-style, in spades.
Jul 22, 2014This beer pours a clear, medium orange-brick amber hue, with two flabby fingers of puffy and tightly foamy ecru head, which leaves a bit of patchy, sudsy lace in spots around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet bready caramel malt, nougat, a touch of treacle, orange cream, lemon and grapefruit bitters, and some increasingly prominent floral, almost perfumed (gee, I wonder why?) hops. The taste is softly bitter grapefruit and orange flesh, sweet caramel/toffee malt, more candy-bar nougat goodness, an indistinct darker fruitiness, and leafy, floral, and mildly spicy hops.
The carbonation is quite low-key, and innocuous in its ethereal frothiness, the body a decently solid medium weight, and rather smooth, the malt muffling the hops' meek attempt at insurrection here. It finishes on the sweet side, the slow burning story more about the complex and complicated malt than any kind of hoppy kick to the teeth.
Another example of the pain we Canucks must endure in defining many of our well-made, homegrown IPAs - are they English, or are they American? Well, often, they are neither, in fact they fall predictably somewhere in the middle - very much like the rest of our perceptible culture. Let's just call this tasty, then - more malty than hoppy (but still with oodles 'n oodles of both), and worthy of the Canadian proto-style, in spades.
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