Topcutter - Fresh Hop
Bale Breaker Brewing Company in Yakima, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Autumn|
Score
7.27
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Hop harvest in the Yakima Valley brings a fleeting moment of magic each September - and for the first time ever, we're releasing Fresh Hop Topcutter IPA to capture that magic in every sip. Brewed minutes after the fresh Simcoe® hops were picked from our family's farm, this special-edition of our flagship IPA bursts with the signature pine, citrus, and stone fruit character of Topcutter, but with an extra juicy vibrance and resinous depth that only fresh hops can deliver. We brewed it fresh. You better drink it fresh.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sort of dullish amber, some berry and stone fruit hop. Mellow pale malt. Moderate bitterness, grapefruity bite and a bit of weediness. Solid.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2026
at 21:29
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can from Boise Co-op. Clear golden pour, small white foamy head settles down to thin skin. Piney, hoppy aroma. Taste is piney, bitter, hop oil, resinous. Sticky feel with some lingering hard bitterness. Quite a punch.
Tried
from Can
from
Boise Co-Op - The Village
on 24 Oct 2025
at 04:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Bale Breaker - Seattle, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma has fresh doughy malt, some fresh pine, and bready malt. Flavour is very wet, with lots of fresh pine, doughy notes, and some wet wood. Real nice fresh hop expression. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bale Breaker & Yonder Cider Taproom
on 05 Oct 2025
at 07:19
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz can. Aroma has notes of cantaloupe, crackery malt, orange, pineapple, cannabis, pine. Pours nearly clear with lots of floaties hanging in suspension underneath a one+ finger cream white head with great retention. Taste has a moderate to high pithy bitterness that lingers on the palate long after the swallow. Piney, citrus pith flavors.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2025
at 01:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Bale Breaker / Yonder taproom. Pours clear gold with a white head. Tons of bright pine and sweet malts on the nose. Flavour has a great fresh pine character, full of sharp pine but with no bitterness. Fantastic.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bale Breaker & Yonder Cider Taproom
on 04 Oct 2025
at 00:06