So-Cal Style IPA
Granville Island Brewery

So-Cal Style IPASo-Cal Style IPA
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From:
Granville Island Brewery
 
British Columbia, Canada
Style:
American IPA
ABV:
7.8%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.73 | pDev: 7.24%
Reviews:
5
Ratings:
11
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 15, 2018
Added:
Oct 01, 2016
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Reviewed by SSS from Canada (QC)

4.18/5  rDev +12.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A-Orange to Amber in color, off-white head that dissipates quickly
S- aroma is on the dank side, with pine and dark fruit coming through with a raisin type sweetness
M-Medium body with a slightly resinous feel, carbonation is on the lower end
T-Sweet all the way through with a subtle tangy bitterness that comes as an aftertaste.
O-I was pleasantly surprised with this beer, not expecting too much from a sellout company
Sep 15, 2018
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Reviewed by TheBierdimpfe from Canada (QC)

3.6/5  rDev -3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Hazy amber color with lots of activity. Creamy beige 2-3 finger head, lasting around 15 minutes, with strong legs and good swirl reaction. Flavors of caramel, brown sugar, butter, orange, light grapefruits, sweet barley, and herbal hops. Smooth, almost oily and silky, medium to full body with a moderate crisp. Medium to strong strength finish, dominant maillard effect, mostly tropical and zesty but also a bit piney. Too much caramel and muffled hops. The texture is real nice though, and the freshness is quite good. Overall good quality craft.
Aug 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.88 by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)

Jan 27, 2018
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Reviewed by Clutch28 from Canada (SK)

3.84/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A: Hazy orange that either fails to simulate hop haze or is bottle conditioned but fails to mention it. Pours with a voulmous but short lasting head of pure white.

S: Herbal, faint cirtus along the candied orange peel variety. Mere hints of breadiness.

T: Carmelly and herbal again, no real hop bite as suggested. Hoppiness while not as advertised is pleasant enough, but certainly not the bitter hit you would expect.

F: Weighty in the glass but medium mouthfeel. Does not lack for carbonation.

O: Decent but not a patch on true West Coast IPA's Seems to be banking on the cache of West Coast IPA's rather then trying to actually produce one. Still a decent beer, but needs either a repackaging or a retooling.
Dec 22, 2017
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Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)

3.56/5  rDev -4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
From a 650ml bottle.80 IBU
A: Pours a pale orange amber with a creamy white head and nice lacing.
S: Bread and yeast with a hint of hops,not much there.
T: Bread notes with some bitter hops.
F: Medium body somewhat thick feel.carbonation is good.
O: Not a very good IPA at all calling it a So-Cal is a joke. Fail.
Nov 12, 2017
 
Rated: 3.26 by StormAles from Canada (ON)

Oct 27, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by BCborn from Canada (BC)

Sep 30, 2017
 
Rated: 4.03 by mistahmojoryan from Canada (SK)

Sep 21, 2017
 
Rated: 3.71 by ZachT from Canada (BC)

Nov 13, 2016
 
Rated: 3.52 by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)

Oct 11, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.48/5  rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - the latest in the 'small batch' series from the original Granville Island brewpub currently making the rounds.

This beer pours a kind of murky, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy and sort of creamy off-white head, which leaves some streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.

It smells of semi-sweet, buttered bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, more sitting on the counter oleo unpleasantness, some subtle mixed citrus fruitiness, and equally benign leafy and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel/toffee malt, a muddled domestic and tropical citrus fruitiness, buttered breakfast biscuits, and more tempered leafy, weedy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is actually quite understated, in its generally morose frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee booze-accented creaminess arising like it really doesn't know what's happening. It finishes on the overly sweet side, the same buttered bready maltiness presiding,

Yeah, I'm starting to think that the 'So-Cal' in this particular offering's marketing ethos is shorthand for 'So-Called', because this is absolutely nothing like the versions of that IPA style that one might be intimately familiar with up to this point, yeah? Sorry GIB, but this is yet another unremarkable reference fail, full stop.
Oct 02, 2016
So-Cal Style IPA from Granville Island Brewery
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 11 ratings