Beers similar to Great Escape

Buddelship Brauerei

West Coast IPA·Germany·6.5% ABV·One of 216 West Coast IPAs in hopIQ·

hopIQ found 10 beers that share Great Escape's hoppy and bitter character. Great Escape is a West Coast IPA, labelled by the brewery as a classic of the style. Simcoe cryo and Polaris are the hops, pale barley malt is the base, and the numbers read 6.5% ABV and 60 IBU. Water, malt, hops and yeast are all that goes in, and it comes from Hamburg-based Buddelship, which brewed over 70 beers in more than 30 styles in its early years.

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10 beers like Great Escape

1

Anspach & Hobday IPA

Anspach & Hobday

United Kingdom · West Coast IPA · 6%

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94%

FLAVOUR MATCH

As with Great Escape, same malt character and dryness, plus tropical notes.

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Structure: very close

Compared to Great Escapetropicaldank

Structure: Same structure — body, sweetness, bitterness and texture all land on the same spot.

Structure: very close

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Anderson Valley Brewing Company

United States · West Coast IPA · 7.6%

TWIN

93%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Alongside Great Escape on malt character and dryness: adds fruit notes, noticeably more bitter.

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Structure: more bitter, a notch stronger

Compared to Great Escapefruityresinous

Structure: Very close — a touch more bitterness, a touch less sweetness.

Structure: more bitter, a notch stronger

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London Brewing Co.

United Kingdom · West Coast IPA · 6%

TWIN

93%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Shares dryness and pine notes with Great Escape; adds resin notes, but drops malt character.

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Structure: very close

Compared to Great Escaperesinoustropicalberrymalty

Structure: Same structure — body, sweetness, bitterness and texture all land on the same spot.

Structure: very close

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4

Beachwood Brewing

United States · West Coast IPA · 7.1%

92%

MATCH

Keeps dryness and pine notes like Great Escape; adds resin notes.

Structure: very close

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Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes

Switzerland · West Coast IPA · 6.5%

91%

MATCH

A touch more yeast character — malt character and dryness as with Great Escape.

Structure: very close

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Monkey Fist IPA

Shipyard Brewing Company

United States · West Coast IPA · 6%

91%

MATCH

Like Great Escape on dryness and pine notes — adds orange notes, but without the malt character.

Structure: very close

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Craft Beer Is Dead

Superflux Beer Company

Canada · West Coast IPA · 6.5%

89%

MATCH

Mirrors Great Escape's dryness and pine notes — plus resin notes, sweeter, minus malt character.

Structure: sweeter

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Superflux Beer Company

Canada · West Coast IPA · 6.5%

89%

MATCH

Same dryness and pine notes as Great Escape, adds resin notes, sweeter, but without the malt character.

Structure: sweeter

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Every Everything

The Lost Abbey

United States · West Coast IPA · 6.7%

89%

MATCH

Same dryness and pine notes as Great Escape, adds resin notes, but without the malt character.

Structure: very close

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Beachwood Brewing

United States · West Coast IPA · 7.1%

89%

MATCH

Same dryness and pine notes as Great Escape, adds resin notes.

Structure: very close

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