Shipyard IPA - Shipyard Brewing Co.

Todd

Massachusetts

2.6/5  rDev -20.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Presentation: 12oz brown bottle. Freshness date on the side of the label. Not diggin' the new "IPA" shouting label ...

Appearance: Deep golden beer, touch of haze (goes away as the beer warms), crowned with a quickly settling, tight, creamy white lace with tentacles that cling to the glass.

Smell: Floral, perfume/estery, dry Bazooka bubble-gum. Mild, real mild, diacetyl in the background.

Taste & Mouthfeel: Smooth and creamy, light-bodied. Big grain tannin character that lends a cracked grain, earth, dry, husky flavour and feel on the palate. This is a very dry beer. A bit "dirty" in character.

Malt sweetness is quite low, although a bready pale malt flavour and malt body shows through as the beer warms up, along with a dab of buttery diacetyl. Hop flavour has hints of citric rind, salt and a mineral edge as it snaps at the palate. Bitter overall. Fruity esters and more soft bubble-gum-like flavours. Odd "eggy" sulfur flavour and "cheesey" hop flavour thrown in the middle. Dry grain tannins in the finish with a leafy hop note and touch of hop oil on the tongue -- finish is very unpleasant, seems like it'll never go way.

Notes & Drinkability: This is a tannin ridden beer, unbalanced, astringent, hard to swallow more than one and needs some cleaning up in my opinion. It's a dirty beer. On the right highway for the style, but took the wrong exit.

Serving type: bottle

11-26-2002 21:25:06 | More by Todd

Jason

Massachusetts

3.95/5  rDev +20.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

On tap at Redbones BBQ

Creamy looking white lace and perfect clarity. Clean and crisp palate, nice uniform maltiness. Hops are clean and sharp with a woody earthy bite. Touch of buttery diacetyl towards the end which finishes mostly dry. Went very well with the catfish fingers.

Serving type: on-tap

09-01-2002 03:12:59 | More by Jason

Weas

Arkansas

3.75/5  rDev +14.7%

05-21-2013 22:33:00 | More by Weas

johntfox

Florida

3.5/5  rDev +7%

05-21-2013 18:05:11 | More by johntfox

Lee45102

Ohio

3.25/5  rDev -0.6%

05-21-2013 01:52:52 | More by Lee45102

Lazy_Genius

Florida

3.25/5  rDev -0.6%

05-20-2013 23:49:35 | More by Lazy_Genius

lcdawg

Mississippi

3.25/5  rDev -0.6%

05-20-2013 16:25:50 | More by lcdawg

mendvicdog

Maryland

3/5  rDev -8.3%

05-10-2013 20:03:54 | More by mendvicdog

blknikon

Massachusetts

2.75/5  rDev -15.9%

05-07-2013 23:23:19 | More by blknikon

bellb

Connecticut

3/5  rDev -8.3%

05-04-2013 23:22:36 | More by bellb

naturallight1

Nevada

3/5  rDev -8.3%

04-28-2013 00:46:26 | More by naturallight1

Kelp

New Hampshire

3/5  rDev -8.3%

04-27-2013 20:07:24 | More by Kelp

gwiedman1

New York

4.75/5  rDev +45.3%

04-27-2013 19:54:08 | More by gwiedman1

trotnixon

Maine

3/5  rDev -8.3%

04-24-2013 10:42:35 | More by trotnixon

pcsnyder

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev -0.6%

04-23-2013 14:23:29 | More by pcsnyder

Ograd001

Connecticut

3.5/5  rDev +7%

04-23-2013 02:01:22 | More by Ograd001

estlinska

Arkansas

3.39/5  rDev +3.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25

Served from the bottle and poured into a standard shaker glass. The beer pours with a good 1-2cm of bubbly head that dissipates rather quickly and leaves very minimal lacing on the glass. The color is a pale amber color that reminds me of some cheap sun-bleached orange fabric. The light penetration is pretty good with some mild chill haze that clears as the beer warms a little bit. The nose comes right out and introduces itself as a big glass of fuggles. It really is like opening a package of fuggles hop pellets. It is very earthy and very vegatal like a freshly dug carrot or radish. It wasn't an unpleasant smell at all. There was also some mild sweet caramel to the background as well, but the fuggles were all over it. The tast was again very earthy and vegetal, but more like zucchini bread than the aforementioned carrots and radishes. The bitterness was smooth and easy. Mouthfeel was super-dry and fairly bitter; maybe a little too far on the dry scale. As far as an IPA goes, this is very British given the excusive use of the Fuggles hops. I really enjoy the single hopped beer concept, and this IPA really does give you a full dose of fuggles so that I will always be able to find it in a beer. That said, the vegetal side of this hops really needs something with it to cool it off.

Serving type: bottle

04-16-2013 16:08:44 | More by estlinska

tehzachatak

Massachusetts

1.75/5  rDev -46.5%

04-12-2013 16:58:49 | More by tehzachatak

carndog

Massachusetts

3.75/5  rDev +14.7%

04-12-2013 02:39:54 | More by carndog

Segelstrom

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev +22.3%

04-10-2013 12:18:53 | More by Segelstrom

Alexmc2

Rhode Island

3.04/5  rDev -7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

Beer pours a golden amber. Small head dissipating quickly, not a whole lot of lacing going on in the glass as you drink. Smell is a light toasted malt with some citrus with a small metallic note. Initial taste is a mildly bitter citrus, fairly thin. Generic IPA, nothing to write home about. Actually grabbed this one in Montreal, where they don't seem to know what IPA is, so it was a pleasant change of pace from the choices of Blonde/Red/Stout there.

Serving type: bottle

04-10-2013 00:38:36 | More by Alexmc2

bigbeers84

Minnesota

3/5  rDev -8.3%

03-28-2013 10:12:17 | More by bigbeers84

JMS1512

New Jersey

3/5  rDev -8.3%

03-27-2013 21:58:23 | More by JMS1512

brheuer

New Jersey

3.5/5  rDev +7%

03-25-2013 00:22:42 | More by brheuer

Molson2000

Ontario (Canada)

3/5  rDev -8.3%

03-15-2013 23:01:00 | More by Molson2000