Beak Breaker Double IPA
Pelican Brewing Company
- From:
- Pelican Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #2,221 - ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #14,133 - Avg:
- 4.01 | pDev: 9.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 28
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 02, 2025
- Added:
- Aug 06, 2016
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 23
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
What do hopheads love about hops? Great big punchy aromas. At Pelican Brewing we’ve been packing hop aroma into beer for over 20 years. Beak Breaker is our newest homage to aromatic innovation. With massive additions of Mosaic, Citra, and Centennial hops this beer delivers a bright citrus-tropical aroma with notes of ruby red grapefruit and sweet pine, blasting your olfactory sense…enough to break your beak!
90 IBU
90 IBU
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Reviewed by ricke49 from Oregon
4.39/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.39/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Great, readily available DIPA. 19.2 oz can at a small town Oregon, Grocery Outlet at $3.99. Canned 56 days ago.
Taste is hoppy grapefruit, intense - yet pleasantly not overwhelming.
If this is really only the best 1,823rd DIPA (according to BA rankings), then we live in a Mythically Wonderful Country!
Apr 16, 2025Taste is hoppy grapefruit, intense - yet pleasantly not overwhelming.
If this is really only the best 1,823rd DIPA (according to BA rankings), then we live in a Mythically Wonderful Country!
Reviewed by CoasterRider from Washington
4.11/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.11/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Rated 5/1/2020. This is the real deal. Good, strong IIPA, with good flavor balance between malt and hops. Pours a clear golden color with a small head which is typical for an IIPA. The bad thing is that it is easy drinking and could be dangerous.
Rated 8-25-2023
Jan 29, 2025Rated 8-25-2023
Reviewed by zeff80 from Missouri
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
19.2oz can. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of grapefruit, orange, caramel and pine notes. Sweet tropical fruit taste with toasted caramel and a piney bitterness.
Jul 20, 2024
Reviewed by Treyliff from West Virginia
3.94/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at Tillamook cheese factory
A- clear golden with a one finger foamy white head that reduces to a ring
S- resinous pine, grapefruit, grass, bready malt undertone
T- zesty grapefruit and orange, grassy, resinous pine, sight sleet malty finish, lingers of pine
M- medium body with moderate carbonation, foamy mouthfeel that continues into the finish
Jul 12, 2024A- clear golden with a one finger foamy white head that reduces to a ring
S- resinous pine, grapefruit, grass, bready malt undertone
T- zesty grapefruit and orange, grassy, resinous pine, sight sleet malty finish, lingers of pine
M- medium body with moderate carbonation, foamy mouthfeel that continues into the finish
Rated by RJLarse from Washington
4.35/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pale gold color with a thin white head. Pine and tropical fruit aromas. Taste is grapefruit and pine. Clean finish
Sep 04, 2022
Reviewed by jmdrpi from Pennsylvania
3.81/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
19.2 oz stovepipe can
Clear, medium golden color, thick bone white head. Big mango and citrus hop aroma. Similar flavor, clean hop flavors and fairly strong bitterness. Medium bodied.
Apr 26, 2022Clear, medium golden color, thick bone white head. Big mango and citrus hop aroma. Similar flavor, clean hop flavors and fairly strong bitterness. Medium bodied.
Rated by Scotchboy from Idaho
3.57/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Traditional NW IPA here, malty and bready sweet with some strong hop bitterness.
Feb 28, 2022
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.83/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Had on tap. Semi-cloudy yellow body, finger of white foam, spotted lacing. Orange and lime with piney hop aromas. Taste I get the bitters front and center, has a vegetable tone underneath the pine, general citrus waltz with the hops. Feel is light for a dipa, but very clean, crisp and has good hop cutting. Solid all around
Sep 13, 2021
Reviewed by barnzy78 from Illinois
4.37/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.37/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
16oz can
date stamped 06.07.21
L: brilliant tangerine body, some haze; tall & frothy ivory head
S: mango, citrus, pine, light caramel
T: mango, pungent pine, orange, grapefruit, pineapple, light caramel, nutty grain
F: full body, ample carbonation, pungently bitter and dry finish with some residual malty sweetness
O: nice meld of sweet malt and bitter hops; I’ll get it again next time I’m on the west coast
Aug 09, 2021date stamped 06.07.21
L: brilliant tangerine body, some haze; tall & frothy ivory head
S: mango, citrus, pine, light caramel
T: mango, pungent pine, orange, grapefruit, pineapple, light caramel, nutty grain
F: full body, ample carbonation, pungently bitter and dry finish with some residual malty sweetness
O: nice meld of sweet malt and bitter hops; I’ll get it again next time I’m on the west coast
Reviewed by gandres from Philippines
4.14/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.14/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Friday, July 30, 2021 1:55 PM
12 ounce can poured to wine glass
Sight: golden amber, clear with some haziness, medium off white foam that disappears slowly, minimal lacing
Smell: Fragrant, but too much, smell of hops and malts/grains
Taste: high bitterness
Mouthfeel: good carbonation, tart, good follow through, dry finish, bitter aftertaste
Overall: very good beer ok to repeat, not look for BA RB
Jul 30, 202112 ounce can poured to wine glass
Sight: golden amber, clear with some haziness, medium off white foam that disappears slowly, minimal lacing
Smell: Fragrant, but too much, smell of hops and malts/grains
Taste: high bitterness
Mouthfeel: good carbonation, tart, good follow through, dry finish, bitter aftertaste
Overall: very good beer ok to repeat, not look for BA RB
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