Henry Weinhard's Woodland Pass IPA
Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Company
- From:
- Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 71
- Avg:
- 3.07 | pDev: 19.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 144
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 01, 2025
- Added:
- Mar 05, 2008
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 41
SCORE
71
Okay
71
Okay
Originally developed for British sailors stationed in India, IPAs were aggressively hopped to help prevent spoilage on long ocean voyages. Now that spoilage isn’t as big a problem, we’ve eased up on the hoppiness just a hair to let the caramel malts shine through. It’s a big beer with big flavor that really lets you appreciate hops in all their glory.
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Reviewed by CoasterRider from Washington
3.64/5 rDev +18.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev +18.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
I remember this beer from the picture of the bottle. This was before the craft beer industry took off. This was back when it was still brewed by Blitz-Weinhard. I remember liking it at the time and though it was good and mellow taste.
Feb 01, 2025Rated by RobHarrold from Florida
4/5 rDev +30.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +30.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Can someone please tell me where is the closest place to Florida that I can buy Private Reserve? Or maybe someone willing to ship it? Thanx!!!!!!
Sep 16, 2017
Reviewed by Offa from California
3.61/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
This is a good, solid beer, although more of a pale ale than actual IPA, and yet leaning slightly to the hoppy side. Amber/copper-gold, it has a small, creamy off-white head very slowly shrinking to foamy ring, wisps, some lace.
Aroma is very nice - berries, toasty bread, caramelised toast, grass, golden raisins.
Taste is nice light, zesty, grassy-berry bitterness with toasty bread, light raisiny-caramelly sweetness, leaning slightly to slightly spicy bitterness. Bready finish. Not coplex. but solid and very enjoyable light pale ale with firm character. It's great with roasted almonds.
Mar 19, 2016Aroma is very nice - berries, toasty bread, caramelised toast, grass, golden raisins.
Taste is nice light, zesty, grassy-berry bitterness with toasty bread, light raisiny-caramelly sweetness, leaning slightly to slightly spicy bitterness. Bready finish. Not coplex. but solid and very enjoyable light pale ale with firm character. It's great with roasted almonds.
Rated by d0nald from New York
1.26/5 rDev -59%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
1.26/5 rDev -59%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
ugh!!
Sep 30, 2015Reviewed by AdamSnodgrass from Oregon
1.15/5 rDev -62.5%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.25
1.15/5 rDev -62.5%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.25
Umm. A joke. Smells like malt liquor. Looks like malt liquor. Hoppy? NO! Bitter? YES ! Hint of Caramel? NO!
Malty? YES! TASTES LIKE MALT LIQUOR. If it was a malt liquor I would give it a 2 out of 5 though. But overall very distant from an IPA.
Jun 25, 2015Malty? YES! TASTES LIKE MALT LIQUOR. If it was a malt liquor I would give it a 2 out of 5 though. But overall very distant from an IPA.
Reviewed by Kon_Doc-08 from Wisconsin
4.26/5 rDev +38.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.26/5 rDev +38.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
This is the beer that started me off with wanting to drink all beers in the world. Has a special place in my heart and I think its a pretty dam good beer.
May 15, 2015
Rated by founddrama from Vermont
2.11/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.11/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
I'm not getting the "hint if caramel" that they boast, and it's more metallic tasting than bitter. Serviceable, but not much of an IPA.
Mar 29, 2015
Reviewed by Cyberkedi from Georgia
3.42/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Comes out of the tap a hazy golden amber with a pale golden-buff head - didn’t get much of a head, but that apparently is an artifact of the pour, and it leaves generous lacing. Aroma is hoppy and fruity, mainly apple with a little banana, not spectacular or strong but still inviting. Strongly hoppy flavor is somewhat bitter with woody and fruity notes. Texture has plenty of fizz and sass though just average body. Not the best IPA I have ever had, but certainly worth at least a try.
Mar 14, 2015
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