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Deschutes Inversion IPA

Deschutes Inversion IPA - India Pale Ale (IPA)

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 Percentile 
88
overall
Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

Bend, Oregon USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4273.52/5.03.51/5.06.8%78Shaker, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
After months of experimentation, energy and obsession, Deschutes Brewery’s brewers have triumphed once again with their newest creation - Inversion IPA. Inversion’s trio of American hops delivers an over-the-top nose with hints of orange and grapefruit. Inversion is then dry-hopped for seven days resulting in an added hoppy kick. To balance the hop character of Inversion, Deschutes’ brewers used crystal and caraston malts that weave throughout the beer providing soft, complex caramel flavors. Inversion IPA is smooth and delicious. Just like clear days up on the mountain, Inversion IPA will deliver a path to higher ground. Inversion will be available year-round starting in early April on draft and in 6-packs. Inversion IPA is a phenomenal NW-style IPA, beckoning all beer drinkers and enticing IPA lovers to invert their world and find clarity above the routine of the everyday. Alc. By Vol. 6.8% IBUs 75
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 nicolascage (105), Copenhagen (Virum), Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/514/20
Oct 3, 2007  
Draft. American ipa. Sharp bitterness, with a malty, well balanced bitterness. Very nice hop profile.


 sirpsycho (342), Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 29, 2007  
Bottle. Amber color, aroma of slight pine, hops, citrus. Flavor was a subdued version of the aroma, has a nice bite to it, but it doesn’t annoy. Not bad.


 RSRIZZO (1345), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/53/102/54/20
Sep 23, 2007  
Had this beer on 7/3/2006. Aroma has a nice maltiness to it with faint tones of hops on the back. Color is a deep golden with good carbonation and a nice tight head. Taste is soapy and bitter. Starting with a medium body it goes down with the bite of bitterness coming on. Finish comes on with a soap like taste that is followed by a sharp bitterness and ends with a taste that is like biting into the peel of an orange. All of this leaves you with a sharp bitter feel in the back of your mouth. It is way to bitter and unbalanced for me.


buddahmind (39), Boise, Idaho, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/104/519/20
Sep 20, 2007  
My current favorite brand of my favorite style. I like this beer...a little too much. I could go on and on about its balance and beauty and big fat smack of ecstacy but I’ll just say, "BUY IT!" If you can’t buy it. I’m truly sorry.


 OD40oz (600), Box Elder, South Dakota, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/58/20
Sep 19, 2007  
A cloudy amber with an off-white colored head. I’m not a fan of IPA but this one isn’t bad for an IPA. Thats still not saying much.


 BBB63 (4199), La Porte, Indiana, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/512/20
Sep 12, 2007  
Bottle from Matt and served in a standard pint glass: Clean deep amber hue with frothy head and good lace. The aroma has notes of leafy and resiny hops, wintergreen and pine, caramel and butterscotch, grapefruit and apricot esters. The taste is a a tad sweet but very balance in the end with resiny piney citric hops to the rescue. The mild spice and leafy finish is quite nice. Yep, I get some wintergreen on the palate too, strange but neato! The mouth feel is smooth for the genre, not aggressive or biting but dry and metallic upon the finish. Honestly this is probably better cold but I ended up liking it.


 BeerPrince (1701), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Sep 9, 2007  
Hazy amber with off white head. Aroma of citrus hops with a touch of grass. Hoppy start and finish but the malt base down th emiddle is a little lacking. Good but not great.


 keith0718 (157), Olathe, Kansas, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Sep 7, 2007  
I had this one a long time ago during a party and didn’t take the time to rate it. Really, if it’s a good beer, I remember it and its defining characteristics.



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