Shipyard Fuggles IPA
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This light copper single hop India Pale Ale is brewed only with the Fuggles hops. It has a smooth, dry, and crisp flavor with floral aroma and apple plum palate.
First Brewed:
April 1997
Malt Style:
2-Row British Pale Ale, Crystal, Malted Wheat
Yeast:
Top-Fermenting English
Hops:
Fuggles
Color:
Light Copper
IBUs:
49
OG:
1.055
This light copper single hop India Pale Ale is brewed only with the Fuggles hops. It has a smooth, dry, and crisp flavor with floral aroma and apple plum palate.
First Brewed:
April 1997
Malt Style:
2-Row British Pale Ale, Crystal, Malted Wheat
Yeast:
Top-Fermenting English
Hops:
Fuggles
Color:
Light Copper
IBUs:
49
OG:
1.055
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1002 reviews
Portland, United States
Community reviews
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 1/2/2016. Pours slightly hazy orange/amber color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of lemon zest, orange peel, wood, plum, pear, apple, light pepper, pine, honey, light caramel, toasted bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of earthy hops, fruity yeast, and bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon zest, orange peel, wood, plum, pear, apple, light pepper, pine, honey, light caramel, toasted bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Good amount of piney/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon/orange peel, wood, pepper, pine, plum, pear, apple, honey, toasted bread, and herbal/grassy hop earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of earthy hops, fruity yeast, and bready malt flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness after the finish from bitterness. Some mild but acceptable levels of diacetyl present in the aromas and flavors. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately sticky, and lightly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice English IPA style. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of earthy hops, fruity yeast, and bready malt flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. This was a bit fruitier than I’d prefer, but was not horribly off balance either. A nicely enjoyable offering.
A terrible IPA but a good beer after a long day. Pours a darker golden amber with a thin off white head, splotchy lacing. The nose is off with light spicy and biscuity malts, a pinch of leaves and mild grass. Earthy and very mild with a unique fruit hop punch. Bitterness is moderate but well balanced. Apples, pear, plum?
Draft. Dark orange with little to no head by the time it reached the table. Nothing really stood out for me other than the bitterness from the beginning to the end. After my taste bud had been killed which took about 1/2 pint, it was drinkable but nothing I need to drink again.
Bottle 355 ml. Amber color with excellent foam. Aroma: floral, fruity (grapes), earthy and pine, light malty. Taste: fresh sweet-sour fruits (pear), good hop bitterness, dry finish, good balance and drinkability.
Lightly clouded yellow, white head. Earthy, lightly dank nose. Predominantly bitter. Lighter body, some oiliness. Medium finish. Fine. Fuggle-forward IPA is an interesting choice.
Bottle to shaker glass, pours amber, one finger quick slightly off white head. Little lace, no retention. Aroma of caramel and herbs. Taste is sweet, lightly earthy bitter. Light bodied, lively carbonation, soapy mouth feel. Finishes earthy bitter and dry. Tasting notes of herbs, grass, caramel and pear. This drinks more like an English bitter than an IPA. Different but drinkable.
copper pour with thin off white head. there’s a orange, floral, and sour dough aroma. flavors of bread, grass, grapefruit, and lemon. nothing spectacular but enjoyable overall.
Orange pour, quick white head. Nose is malt, hint of hops. Bitter. Middle is medium malt backbone and hop flowers. Finish is dry and bitter. Pretty good.
Pours a hazy orange. Has a malty, caramel and orange aroma. Taste is malty with caramel and fruits with citrus hops. A dry aftertaste.
355ml bottle. Clear, orangey golden colour with small, frothy, fading, minimally lacing, white head. Hoppy aroma, minimally floral, a touch of apple, gooseberry, grainy, biscuity background. Taste is minimally sweet malty, slightly fruity and floral hoppy, a touch of gooseberry, apple, diluted plum wine. Old school, British, boring.
35cl Bottle from drankgigant.nl. Golden orange colour, white head. Aroma of caramel, light malty, a bit herbal, floral and earthy. Flavour follows, subtle floral and earthy bitterness with some toffee. Light bodied. Decent English IPA.
Bottle, 355 ml from Coppers 8 till 8, Newcastle. Shared with JFK10000. Pours orange with off-white head. Light fruits and toasted malty aroma and flavor. Sweetish with dry bitter finish.
My first beer from this brewery. Clear orange blonde with low sparkling, under a medium, lightly lacing, very regular, finely textured, clotted cream-coloured head. Aroma is not unlike many of the blonde Belgian ales hopped with Fuggle / Styrian Golding: an earthy, elegant, somewhat soapy and minty hoppiness remaining gentle enough to leave space for fruity esters and sweetish malts. I get brown bread, marmelade, soap, young cheese, mango, some caramel, hazelnuts, faint hint of eucalyptus, acacia honey, dough, peach and biscuit - in all: strikingly weak hop presence for an American IPA. Sweetish onset of honey and candied fruits but in a very subdued, ’quiet’ way, pretty soft carbonation, hint of salty minerals, toasted malts taking over, a bit nutty and ’biscuity’, bittering and in that sense blending well with the ensuing hop bitterness, which retains an earthy, soapy, leafy, peppery character, nothing of the high alpha acids hops I had expected (and, quite honestly, hoped for), yet long and dry, just remaining ’low’ and - frankly - a bit boring. This is not an IPA to me, not even completely in the classical English sense of the word (which was the first thing that sprung to mind when missing the American citrus hops in the nose); this seems to be more close to a (very) hoppy Belgian blonde. Which is not a disappointment per se because in this category it would hold its own pretty well, I just expected American hoppiness from it.
Bottle a golden yellow colored beer with a white head aroma malts citrus fruits and hops flavor malts citrus fruits and bitter hops in the aftertaste
From tap. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small off white head. Aroma is toasted malty and light fruity. Sweet, fruity snd slight earthy hoppy. Bitter, drry snd towards herbal. Rather bitter finish.
Pours amber with a thick foamy white head that stays long. Nose is mild hops. Taste is fresh, slightly bitter, and leaves a floral aftertaste. A bit thin for me, but quite refreshing and tasty.
Pours a clear copper holding few carbs and topped by a finger of white fissy head. Retention is minimal and some rare lacing is seen. The nose is sweaty with some faint caramel and booze. The taste is soapy and resinous as you would expect with some caramel up front and some toasted malts in the back. Sharp hops offer a lingering finish. The brew does have a cooked vegetable aspect that is not so enjoyable so be warned. Cheers!
This is a very disappointing IPA. Bet lets face it they were shooting for a british version not an American version. But I am in America, this is an American brewery. So the aroma taste is very week and not what you would want from an IPA. light grain light musk. Not to good.
Dunkel gyllen farve med lyst skum. Lukt av gress, frukt, sitrus og humle. Smak av gress, karamell, frukt, sitrus og humle. Fruktig og bitter avslutning.
Duft av citrus, eik, malt og honning. Dunkel gulbrun farge. Tynn hinne skum, heng langs kant. Litt syrlig smak av eik, citrus og en anelse honning.
330ml bottle at home - pours hazy orange with white head - some citrus aroma. Taste is malt/caramel - medium bodied. Ok
Yellow with a white I , disappearing head. Smells a bit of rot and old fruit with hops and corn. Leaves. Tastes of sour wheat with alcohol and a sulfar yeast finish. Sort of like a Labatte Ice Stong Lagar Beer. Not impressed.
Only 79p per bottle in Home Bargains.
Not hoppy enough to be a truly great IPA but nice all the same.
Quite floral at times with bitter finish.
Definite plum notes at the finish as well.
On tap. Hazy amber with fast disappearing head. Aroma is bit malty,really weak flavour. Boring beer
12oz brown bottle. Pours out a golden shade, a touch unclear. Soapy and thin white head on top. Nose has grassy hops. Taste has lemon and grassy hops. Grass and earthy hops in the fade out, low bitterness. Aftertaste has dirt and grass. Not a fan.
Spice herbal malt aroma. Clear Amber colour poor head and lacing. Herbal spice malt flavour. Fizzy lingering palate.
McCoppins bottle (14-Oct-2014) Stale herbal aroma.Herbal lemongrass pepper flavour.Bitter herbal lemon aftertaste.
Poured from 12oz brown bottle into a nonic pint glass. It poured a light orange amber colour with weak white foam. Malty and hoppy, a fairly true-to-style and balanced English-style IPA but nothing too special. Light-medium body, somewhat bready mouthfeel, lingering fruity and earthy aftertaste. Decent but disappointing. Considering they allegedly use UK Fuggle hops, the revered dual-strain Ringwood Brewery dual-strain yeast, top-cropped in open fermentors...this should taste WAY better than it does.
355ml bottle pours a golden color with a finger and a half of white head that leaves some nice lacing rings on the glass. Aroma is light fruits and caramel. Taste is a grassy and spicy hop bitterness with a nicely balanced caramel malt and light fruit sweetness. Light bodied with moderate carbonation. Much like an English bitter, but with more hops.
Aroma of fruit, apples, plums, some hops. No head or lacing. Not a great IPA, but not awful either.