Hop Beard
Fonta Flora Brewery in Nebo, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
7.27
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Mountain Man IPA
Very floral, fruity and dry "Appalachian" style IPA brewed with a blend of CTZ, Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra. Expect notes of tropical fruit, deep stone fruits and sticky pine.
Very floral, fruity and dry "Appalachian" style IPA brewed with a blend of CTZ, Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra. Expect notes of tropical fruit, deep stone fruits and sticky pine.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Misted pale amber with a 1/2cm white head. Aroma of peach, mango, pine that's a little cleaning product. Light bodied and clean to the point that it loses substance. Stone fruit, some tropical fruit, a toppy pine needle note at the moderately bitter finish. OK.
Tried
on 11 May 2026
at 12:53
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours clear gold into a willi. White head with little retention recedes to skim surface. Caramel and tangerine aromas. Crisp with sweet caramel and pine upfront turning to sucralose and lemon joy in the medium length soapy finish.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2025
at 23:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Beer Stop. Beautiful artwork on the can (different to the pic). Hazed yellow. Slim tight white foam. Malt and piny lemon hops. Easy drinking. Some bitterness.
Site was down so the rate is shitter than normal.
Site was down so the rate is shitter than normal.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2025
at 20:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy golden beer, thin white head. Aroma has grapefruit and bittersweet lemon. Flavour has grapefruit and grassy hop up front, pine, dry lemon, a bit of bittersweet orange. Quite floral and peppery in the finish. Crisp, refreshing and pretty punchy.
Tried
on 02 Aug 2024
at 16:25
7/10
Tried
on 19 Jul 2024
at 21:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
10th July 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear gold beer, small and short lived bubbly pale cream colour head. Light palate, fairly smooth, decent fine minerally carbonation coming through on the back end. Smooth pale malts, a light creamy sweetness, imparting a mild dryness as well. Hops are light cooling pine over a juicy smooth and reasonably bright citrus. Touch of citrus peel and whisper of skunk. Some tropical fruits on the back end. Light and semi dry finish. Clean, hop juicy and drinkable.
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear gold beer, small and short lived bubbly pale cream colour head. Light palate, fairly smooth, decent fine minerally carbonation coming through on the back end. Smooth pale malts, a light creamy sweetness, imparting a mild dryness as well. Hops are light cooling pine over a juicy smooth and reasonably bright citrus. Touch of citrus peel and whisper of skunk. Some tropical fruits on the back end. Light and semi dry finish. Clean, hop juicy and drinkable.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2024
at 16:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 23/06/24. Almost clear golden blonde topped with a good sized white crown. Nose is crisp malts, orange zest, grass, melon, papaya, pine nip, light floral trace. Taste comprises airy malts, tangerine, grass, melon, mandarin, Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with balanced juicy come grassy hop bitterness. Decent crushable hop shizzle ... clean and easy.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jun 2024
at 17:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Cloudy orange with medium white head. Nice stone fruit aroma, tad too sweet though. Moderate bitterness in finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Fonta Flora Brewery - Whippoorwill Farm
on 16 Nov 2022
at 06:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Fonta Flora. Thanks Jason! Pours a clear gold with a finger of white foam that dissipates. Lovely nose of papaya, citrus and gummy bear aromas. Dried tropical fruit along with more gummy bear and pithy, piney bitterness on the finish. Clean and well-made.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2020
at 18:25
8.2/10
Tried
on 01 Dec 2020
at 16:17