Ballast Point Big Eye IPA

Brewed by Ballast Point Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle: Courtesy of Foolish_Mortal via trade. Lots of grapefruit hops and a some floral hints in the aroma. Pours a dark transparent amber with a nice white head with decent retention. Nice lacing. Very hoppy from start to finish with a caramel balance that comes into play somewhere in the middle only to fade and leave a hops to take over again in the finish and aftertaste. A very nice IPA.

Pours deep golden with a whipped white head. Big nose of orange, passion fruits and a slight pineyness. The flavor is all c-hops, pungent and beautiful. Very little maltiness but a fair amount of residual sweetness. Body is med. Clean ferment. The finish is appropriately bitter but of the harsher variety that I tend not to like. This is definitely a west-coast IPA but needs a little more balance.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color, frothy white head, good lacing. Aroma is a grapefruity hoppy smell, plenty pungent. Sweet malty flavor, hop bitterness is evident right after that, and there’s a hint of a piney taste in the finish, hoppiness sticks around in the mouth very well. Mouthfeel is fairly smooth, medium bodied, carbonation is a bit on the light side. Overall, a decent IPA, nothing overly special, but everyday drinkable and complemented my burger very well.

Lugged this one back from California a while back. Very pretty, clear, orange and copper with a great looking white head that faded slowly and left good lacing. Aroma was slightly not the thing I typically like - meaning there was that vegetal thing going on, like cooked broccoli. This was mixed in with a touch of earth and a floral, honeysuckle element. Taste was dirty grapefruit and a bit of dandelion green, vegetal and bitter. Some people may really go for this, but it isn’t a hop profile I care for. Centennial?

Clear amber-coppery brew with no head at all.Nose is heavy on the citrusy hops with an underlying sweet maltiness. Unusual,upon first sip I get a perfumey blast almost before I get any bitter grapefruit from the hops.Leaves a perfume flavor on the tongue which is a little wierd.Overall this would be a great session brew for me.Thanks to Foolish_Mortal for this.

Nice citrus in the nose. Pours a murky copper color w good head and lacing. Great grapefruit bitterness and flavor with a good malt background. This sample has a little oxidation but I did hold on to it for too long. Overall very nice IPA. I want more.

Thanks to Foolish_Mortal for this fine Ballast Point! This pours a brilliant Copper that fills the rest of the glass with a tall sticky merengue head. Pine aroma, their hopping seems to be similar for their other two bottled brews and it’s not bad. Well balanced, with hoppy bitterness and caramel malt playing out the two roles well. When in SD, don’t overlook this "other" brewery!

Very nice for this hophead. It pours a bright orange with a frothy white head that leaves some serious lacing on the sides of the glass. The aroma is predominantly hops (grapefruit and pine), as should be, atop a caramel malt smell. Medium bodied and well carbonated, the flavor is a sturdy sweel caramel smothered in some good hop bitterness. There’s a lingering lightly bitter finish that leaves you calling for a refill.

Redish golden with dispearing head. Hopflower ,grass and sweetness in the aroma. Taste is hoppy with some sweetness.

Pours light orange color, thin white head. Smells hoppy, but not overpowering with hops, citrusy smell. Tastes spicy and bitter at first then the middle is sweet oranges. Finishes bitter but doesn’t last like other IPAs. This has a very interesting taste. I like it.