The Facts
Style: India Pale Ale
ABV: 7.0%
Brewer: Ballast Point
Location: San Diego, CA
Alas, summer comes to an end today…. but not necessarily for us Californians! Our Indian Summer is just getting started, evident by me melting away at the park on Sunday and desperately seeking a dip in a pool.🏊🍺🌞
Maybe you’re already embracing the fall train or maybe your hanging onto summer for dear life. But whichever you are, boy do I got the beer for you!! Warm you up on the cold day or cool you down on a warm day, this grapefruit flavored IPA is the season transition beer for your every need.👌 The fruitiness in this IPA makes it the perfect in-between season beer balancing bitter winter flavors and citrus summer flavors.
TASTE TEST: Smells fruity, I can def smell the natural grapefruit flavor. Pours a light golden, slightly lighter and brighter looking than most IPAs. Taste the grapefruit right off the bat. I feel like if your expecting a hoppy IPA then this tastes much more delightfully fruity but if your expecting a fruity beer its going to taste quite bitter, maybe even without citrus at all. Nutty. Lemonade. Ooo cotton candy on the tongue for a split second. Yeah actually now that I say that I can smell the cotton candy too! Weird haha. Anyway, def still pretty hoppy.
Well cheers to you cold beer by a pool, you won’t be lasting much longer but I’ll support you while you do! Not jumping ship for fall just yet—well at least not today. 😁 This poolside can of grapefruit goodness will serve as my commemoration, honoring the end of bikinis, sand, and palm trees. Oh wait, were in California so that never HAS to end. 😉👙🌴
The Grapefruit Sculpin 🐡 gained lotsss of traction over summer so I think it deserves to be recognized. All IPA lovers will enjoy it but not necessarily the lighter beer lovers can say the same despite the fruit flavor. Either way it should be had for sun-soaked pleasure. 🍻
CRUCIAL BIT OF ADDITIONAL INFO: I must state for the record, that I don’t drink canned beers because they are usually filled with beer flavored fizzy water lol…aka the pits…however I think I’m going to have to change my perspective because canned beers are making a comeback! Believe me!…(But I’ll continue this topic at a later date)
Stuff // Beer: Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin can found at: Bevmo, Whole Foods / Swimsuit: Triangl / Sunglasses: Marc by Marc Jacobs (old) similar //
Colors (left to right) // Pantone 138U / Pantone 7402U / Pantone 7546C / Pantone 318U / Pantone 1795U //
