Westbrook Shane's Big DIPA
A monstrously big and hoppy Double IPA. The recipe for this beer was developed by Brewer Shane Cummings. F**kin’ A!
3.8
155 reviews
Mount Pleasant, United States
Community reviews
Golden with a medium white head. Aroma is mild grapefruit hops with a touch of grass. Flavor is crisp citrus hops with a dry finish. Strong bitter aftertaste.
Wife: 3.8
Pours hazy golden with white head. Aroma of pine, grapefruit, tropical fruit. Good malty backbone. Assertive bitterness.
Bottle At home. Pours hazy orange amber. Nose is wonderful bouquet of hoppyness. Tastes of grapefruits, lots of cantaloupe, mango, hint of pine, resin, some caramel. Semi sweet and bitter finish. Quite a pleasant beer.
Subdued aroma of hops, pine resin and a hint of malt. Pours a hazy caramel color, a short lasting white well laced head. Dry feel, medium body taste of hops, dried fruit, apricots and a hint of malt. Slightly bitter finish.
Bomber to frosted mug, not very floral in the smell, golden hazey brew, darker golden head. Great tasting ipa.
A really hoppy and earthy double ipa. Nice and bitter and hoppy start with a grassy bitter finish. Really smooth and not boozy for its alcohol content. Pours orange in color with a white head. Had at home.
Golden with white head. Bottle pour at christpunchers pad. Hoppy and orange intense happiness. Peach and dank fruit hoppiness. Very tasty
Bottle at Au Trappiste, Bern; 9% ABV, bottled 2/21/14
Hazy golden color. Being old, the aroma is still strong but not fresh, quite animal. Lean body, powerful, moderately sweet, with loads of resiny hops; the fruity side includes grapefruit, lemon, bitter orange peel.
Excellent. I can only long for a fresh bottle.
On tap, poured into a snifter glass. The aromas are light and muted, with a neutral, funky bread crust, and a light orange note. It pours a murky, dull orange with a white, soapy head. The taste is a smooth, balanced medium high citrus bittersweet. The beer is viscous and oily, with a flattish carbonation. The full is bright with grapefruit and bread crust with a smooth, light toffee malt. The finish crisp and clean with a light spice note and leaves an aftertaste that’s lightly caramel and has a bread crust. There’s no detecting the APV until after you’ve had a couple, and you wonder what happened to your balance.
Very good IPA. Good aroma and nice color. Well bodied with a smooth and fresh aftertaste
Draft: pours hazy straw color with a thin but frothy white head, aroma is hoppy, grassy, some citrus, taste is hoppy, bitter with a dry finish. Nice DIPA.
from Au Trappiste - light hazy dark blond beer with a long lasting foam left; strong resiney hoppines with notes of apricot and peaches; full-bodied, sticky and with some sweetness below overwhelmed by a robust bitterness; very resiney hoppy finish, light spicy and fruity
On tap at the brewery pours a hazy orange with a ring of white head. Nose has orange, candy, vinous, white grape. Flavor is malty, orange, soap, yeast, white grape, grass. Sticky finish.
Warm golden colour, white head. Aroma of hops, lots of hops. Sweat, pine, tropical fruits. Bitter flavour, hops, malty backbone, grapefruit, pine. Bitter hoppy finish, citrus, pine.
(from draught @ CBC blue session, Copenhagen 2014. Thanks for sharing today’s beers, RateBeer crew!)
(Bottle @ VilleValla Pub, Linköping, Dec 12 2014) Pours a hazy medium orange with a moderate foamy white head. Aroma of citrus peel, resiny, a bit of pine, some faint tropical fruit notes, caramel malt sweetness and a fair amount of grain, exposed by hop fade I think, On the palate, sweet and fairly fruity at first, grapefruit, orange peel, a little tropical, pine resin builds in the middle. Becomes reasonably bitter later on with fairly robust caramel/pale malt core giving way to resin and, again, a fair amount of grain. Hop bitterness moderately high toward the finish with a bit of alcohol heat and that grain lingering on the tongue. Medium bodied and slightly oily with average carb. This was still a pretty decent IPA even though the bottle was clearly not fresh. The exposed grain bothered me but it would have been much better with that covered and the stronger hop flavour that did it. Will happily rerate fresh cause I think this is a pretty good one.
[6264-20140419] Tap. Orange citrus hops aroma. Hazy, orange body with medium-lasting foamy white head. Bitter orange peel bitter flavour has a sweet tangerine finish. Bitter medium body. Good. (8/4/8/4/16) 4.0+
(@ Torst, Brooklyn, NY)
Cobrizo muy tupido con espuma marfil bastante uniforme. aromas de miel, azúcar moreno, melocotón y piña. Cuerpo denso con inicio dulce y afrutado de melocotón y miel con un final de amargor amable, cítrico y seco, duradero y bien equilibrado.
Bottle, Beer Moth, Manchester. Crept into the glass a hazy orange colour with a small white head. Nose was generous with the citrus/tropical fruits and piney hop. Sweet hoppy flavour with notes of caramel, resin and pineapple. Decent ABV smother and bitterness on point. Medium to fullish body. Would love to try a super fresh bottle. This was a very tasty DIPA and I’m feeling the star hopping connotations.
Small sample from bottle at Camping Ratebeer ’14. Pours hazy yellow with a small to medium beige head. Aroma of yellow fruits, lots of hops, some maltiness and pine, quite nice. Taste is fruity with tropical fruits, hops, hay, some maltiness and an over medium bitter finish. Medium body and carbo. Nice.
Pours hazy amber with medium fluffy white head
Aromas has hoppy citrus, floral, pine, grapefruits, resin
Very well balanced taste with good amount of citrusy and tropical hoppyness built up by great caramel maltyness
Vollmundig hopfiger Antrunk und weiterer Verlauf, blumig und fruchtig. Im Mittelteil eher noch intensiver, der Hopfen drängt zudem die Bitterkeit ab. Hell würzig, intensiver, nicht nachlassender Hopfen. Geringe Süße, kaum schmeckbarer Alkohol. 12/13/11/13/11/12
sampled at a bottle share. im not an ipa person, but if you are this is one to get ahold of.
Bottle courtesy of obguthr, thank you sir! Slightly hazy golden yellow color. Nice aroma of dusty haystacks, fruit. Taste is nice, bitter tropical fruit.
Tap at CBC 2014. Beer in the glass deep golden, small head. Hoppy-fruity aroma. Starts hoppy, quite bitter, some fruity notes of grapefruit and some lemon. Bitter finish. Okay.
On tap. Darker pour, a little reddish. Assuming this is the right beer, it was just listed as IPA. Kinda just a standard boozy IPA. Nice beer.
Keg at the Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014, blue session. 02/05/2014. Aroma is earthy resinous piney hop, some citrus. Bright golden coloured pour with a lasting white head. Flavour is composed of sticky resionous pine, clean caramel maltsPalate is sticky chewy hop resin, somewhat sweet. Good drinkable DIPA. Maybe a little sweet for my taste.
Bottle from Beermoth, Manchester. Hazy, orangey gold. Thick, dense, lasting, just off white head. Lovely, fusty, slightly dank hop. Buttery, grapefruit marmalade on toast. Taste is thick, dried fruit sweet, first off, then a hefty, slightly metallic bitterness. Palate is full, thick, and oily. Finishes rich sweet, and heavy, zesty bitter. Daft easy to drink.
@ Camping Ratebeer, yellow/orange beer, both citrus in the aroma and taste, very good beer
On tap at CBC 2014. Hazy amber with off white head. Aroma is fruity, caramel, pineapple, marmalade, tropical fruit and mango. Taste is sweet, powerful, bitter, resin and lots of various tropical fruits. Really nice
Mooie warmgele kleur met een goede kraag. Ruikt honing, hop, vanille. Smaakt bitter, hop, grapefruit. Goede bittere afdronk.