Grapefruit IPA
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- From:
- Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 31, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 30, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.43/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
16oz pint at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square - apparently this is a different brew than their Grapefruit DIPA from a little while back, and similar to Honest Paul, but with different hops. I love bar employees!
This beer appears a dark, seemingly cascading peach amber colour, with one skinny-ass finger of weakly puffy, finely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some randomly eroded limestone cliff lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of sort of acrid white grapefruit flesh, pine tree detritus, gritty and grainy pale malt, a hint of phenolic yeast, further indistinct citrus rind, and more plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, an ethereal biscuity caramel sweetness, edgy mixed peppercorns, kind of stale-seeming domestic citrus essences (not really all that grapefruit-specific), more gently untethered yeast, and a still underwhelming leafy, herbal, and perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly subdued in its quotidian frothiness, the body a adequate medium weight, and so-so smooth, with that weird yeasty spiciness making a minor fuss here. It finishes trending dry, the bland citrus element unfortunately given free lingering reign.
Overall, yeah, I don't know what really went wrong, but I have certainly seen it before with this brewing concern. There is arguably little to no grapefruit here, and barely more appreciable IPA character. More of a saucy ESB than anything, which is a mild insult to that style.
Jul 31, 2017This beer appears a dark, seemingly cascading peach amber colour, with one skinny-ass finger of weakly puffy, finely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some randomly eroded limestone cliff lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of sort of acrid white grapefruit flesh, pine tree detritus, gritty and grainy pale malt, a hint of phenolic yeast, further indistinct citrus rind, and more plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, an ethereal biscuity caramel sweetness, edgy mixed peppercorns, kind of stale-seeming domestic citrus essences (not really all that grapefruit-specific), more gently untethered yeast, and a still underwhelming leafy, herbal, and perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly subdued in its quotidian frothiness, the body a adequate medium weight, and so-so smooth, with that weird yeasty spiciness making a minor fuss here. It finishes trending dry, the bland citrus element unfortunately given free lingering reign.
Overall, yeah, I don't know what really went wrong, but I have certainly seen it before with this brewing concern. There is arguably little to no grapefruit here, and barely more appreciable IPA character. More of a saucy ESB than anything, which is a mild insult to that style.
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