Drake's IPA

Brewed with extra hops and malt in the English tradition, but with West Coast style. This deep golden India Pale Ale is artfully balanced with a fresh, powerful aroma and a luscious finish.

3.7

553 reviews

San Leandro, United States

Community reviews

3.6 Barwa miedziana. Piana biała, szybko opada. W aromacie mocno żywiczne, sosnowe. W smaku podobnie, silny aromat leśny. Wysycenie średnie, goryczka średnia, nie zalega.

3.6 355ml bottle at House Of Belgium, Xiamen. Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of pine. Some sweet malt. Bitter finish.

3.9 Very nice and balanced. A golden amber with a white head. Hops with a very mild bitterness that is slightly dry but doesn't ruin things by going overboard.

3.9 Piney, orange peel nose, some resinous notes. Medium body, some sweetness, nice balanced bitterness. Wonderful hop flavor with a faint biscuity note. Lingering bitter finish, no harshness. A wonderful West Coast IPA. Earlier Rating: 8/30/2014 Total Score: 3.9 Nice malty nose with pine-resin notes. Pours a dark copper with a good head. Rich bitterness with no harshness, balanced well with the malt, and a nice lingering hoppy finish. Excellent IPA.

3.2 Brewed with extra hops and malt in the English tradition, but with West Coast style. This deep golden India Pale Ale is artfully balanced with a fresh, powerful aroma and a luscious finish.

4.8 The westcoast style IPA. Very dankkk!! Full extreme smell and taste of hop. Thebest ipa i ever had.

3.7 Really good well balanced IPA. Plenty of hop aroma and flavour there, with balanced malt typical of the west coast style. One I had wanted to try for a while, didn't disappoint.

3.6 Bottle. Amber with a white head. A: grapefruit, kumquat, pine, light bread. Some blackcurrant. Quite thin for its strength and the plainish sweet malt - whilst pleasant and clean - doesn't really provide enough of a platform for the strong citrus and pine, or for the strong bitterness at the end. Pretty good but the world has moved on.

3.6 Tap at the Alehouse Project, Melbourne. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin white head and some broken lace. The aroma is malt, tropical fruit citrus hop. The flavour is moderate bitter light sweet with a crisp, fresh malt, fruity, light dry pepper spice, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

3.5 250ml on tap at Parallel universe. Thin white head. Lovely hoppy aroma. Thin white head. Lovely bitterness. Very good.

3.8 Bottle from Whole Foods. Medium to dark golden with huge fluffy head. Aroma leads with the hops, some of the grains, light citrus. Taste as well is hop forward, lemon zest, orange peel. Citrus oil, mild bitterness. A hark back to the day when IPA ruled the beer scene.

4.1 Craftfully made IPA, beautiful balanced and smooth flavour, high on raisin and caramel, but also some tropical flower touches. Hardly any bitterness, this how a west-coast IPA is supposed to taste.

3.4 I pretty bitter IPA. High on the ibus somto be expt ct d. Needed a glass of water after this one.

3.4 7% SFO AIRPORT. 5 hour layover. JUST OK. Not enough flavor for me. Needs more hops and more malt.

4.5 Full of taste. For me a very very good IPA.

4.2 From Jan 2008 I got this bottle from South Bay Drugs & Liquors. It pours from 12oz bottle a hazy gold with a good 1 finger head of foam and it has a lot of lacing. The smell is very nice. Lots of hops there but equally strong in the malt and together, it makes for a very bitter-seet nose. I like. The taste is as if not more impressive than the smell. Grapefruit and floral hop flavours in abundance but the malt sweetness somewhat takes the edge off the bitterness and it's *almost* a complete balance for this IPA....nah, there'd have to be a bigger malt profile here to do that. Hops win flavour domination....by more than a nose. It has a good medium mouthfeel to it and the carbonation is fairly high. It finishes on the bitter side. I'd say this is more of an American IPA but it's reasonably near the ballpark. That said, this is quite a good IPA regardless and one I'd drink again without hesitation.

4.1 Bottle from Good Spirits Co. Wine & Beer, Glasgow. Beer served in 8°C, Duvel Glass. Pours brown golden, medium head. Aroma is like a tropical fruit pulp, mango, pear, molasses. Taste is fruity, pine and herbal hops, earthy. Medium bitterness, long lasting in the aftertaste.

3.9 Aroma of grapefruit and herbs. Taste is a good hit of citrusy hops but not as fruity as some other ipas because its more balanced out by a spicy, earthy, herbal undertone. Has a lingering dry bitterness. Solid and tasty, but not a home run for me.

4.8 Une ipa à la limite de l'imperial ipa, puisque le niveau abv d'une part pouvait le justifier avec 7 % au compteur, et d'autre part l'intensité des saveurs est adéquate au style "impérialiste", avec quand même 65 ebu bien sentis. Notre belle a été médaillée d'or au GABF de 2002. Elle a donc 15 ans de route, et semble bien calibrée pour durer. Il est vrai que dans la ville de Caterpillar on fait des engins solides … Couleur caramel un peu roux (et pas mou ..), à la clarté nette. Bulles très fines, partout, à montée lente. Mousse brun clair, à flocons moyens, stable à 2 mm. Arômes de sève de pin, malt cara, miel de châtaignier, pointe de "vieux temps" (de la belle époque du vieux temps, et pas de l'actuel … Ce qui est un vrai jeu de mots, j'en conviens ..). 1ère bouche souple à l'entame sur la résine et pointe de whisky non affiné. Arrière-bouche à la belle amertume résineuse. 2ème à l'ensemble avec lichee, résine, ananas. Arrière-bouche très soft, malgré ce bon niveau ebu. 3ème au bel enchaînement avec du tabac brun. Arrière-bouche longue, complexe. La longueur donne beaucoup de nuances très élaborées, grande fusion résine/fruit/amertume. Jambes huileuses, mais collantes sur toute la hauteur. Levure un peu fruitée, belle ligne. Alcool correct, il aide la longueur à approfondir les saveurs. Finale dont on pouvait espérer un peu plus... CONCLUSION : après une très belle longueur complexe, on espérait un final plus flamboyant au pays des caterpillar … Mais on peut se fier à ce solide engin drakulesque … (10/4/10/5/19)

2.6 Draft in SFO next to some sorority girls talking about rager and parties. Decent brew.

3.7 Aromat: owocowy, cytrusy i żywice, trochę tropikalnych owoców, przyjemny, średnio intensywny. Wygląd: złociste, średnio przejrzyste, biała piana, średnia, drobnopęcherzykowa, szybko zanika. Osad w butelce. Smak: mocno owocowe, słodycz owocowa tropików, mango, ananas, mandarynka. Całkiem przyzwoita goryczka grejpfrutowa i żywiczna. Dobry balans, ciało ok, fajna owocowość, smaczne piwo. 7/4/7/4/15

3.8 Six pack of bottles. Pours out a slightly hazy light copper color. Frothy off-white head settles to a thin lace. Light citrus and spice notes. Slightly earthy and herbal. Body on the lighter side. Plenty of bitterness. Some bitter grapefruit peel. Dry finish. Decent IPA. Update: Upgrade!

3.4 Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and light pine flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light pine lingers with light caramel. Earlier Rating: 6/23/2004 Total Score: 4.1 Bottle. Dark orange amber with a big white head. Nice tar and grapefruit aroma. Sweet caramel malt flavor that’s almost creamy with a big pine/grapefruit ending. Nicely put together beer. Not a big bitter ending and not overly heavy - great mouthfeel. Good beer.

3.5 Tap. Pours clear amber. Aroma and flavor are pale and caramel malts, citrus and floral hops, crisp bitterness, and a piney finish.

3.6 Draft. Pours clear gold with a creamy off white head. Tastes like grapefruit hops, caramel malt, juicy citrus, and light nuttyness. Light/medium body and carbonation. Smells like grapefruit hops, nutty malt, and a hint of caramel.

3.4 Aroma: grass is dominant, notes of citrus are slightly noticeable. Taste: citrus and grass, probably some pine. Moderate intensity. Decent IPA

3.4 12 oz bottle. Pours yellow-gold with little head and lace. Light aroma with tastes of hay, grains, bread, pine, grapefruit. Significant carbonation and mouthfeel. Overall refreshing, flavorful and tasty. Good balance between malt and pine hops. Wife likes it more than I do.

3.0 Bottle. Deep golden with a lively white head. Sweet malts, marmalade, background notes of pine, plastic, and a little toast, with a long. Otter finish. Just ok.

3.8 355ml bottle from Good Spirits Co. Wine & Beer, Glasgow (£3.80): Very nice stuff from Drake’s here & an unexpected taste from the beer given I was expected a tonne of hops before cracking the bottle open. The beer was definitely closer to an American pale ale of today than it was an IPA but it was first brewed 15 years ago & a lot has changed since then, still the beer was excellent with a lot of caramel flavours & a strong, malty taste in the early going. The nose in particular was a sweet one with only a few pine hops & floral notes backing them up, the balance was still maintained though & the beer went down very easily indeed; good stuff & one I wouldn’t mind cracking open again at some point.

4.4 Very cloudy, beautiful yellow glow. Very fresh peachy, pear, floral, grassy. Lots of hop character but most of all lots of hop variation! Nice bitterness, nothing too strong. On the dry side, which I like, not too alcohol but quite full. Wow impressive ipa and that says a lot after trying about 30+ over the course of last week! Impressive brewing achievement. Nothing less. (66cl bottle from market at Stinson Beach)