Thunderhop IPA
Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.88
|
|
The ThunderHop I.P.A. has an intense bitterness, flavor and aroma. We chose to use two varieties of American hops in the brewing process. The color is copper to amber and the aroma is noticeably hoppy due to the use of Glaciers in the dry hop process. You will also pick up a complexity from fruit-like esters. The body is big and malty with some caramel sweetness.
Sign up to add a tick or review
6.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Dancing Camel. Thanks David Cohen. Clear amber. Aroma with some hops, flowers, guava, some malt and light grainy hints. Flavor has light sweetish notes with faint malt and lots of hoppy bitterness. Medium-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2011
at 07:20
5.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
A dark reddish amber IPA with a thick moka head. In aroma, pleasant floral hops with wild grass notes. In mouth, a bitter and unbalanced version, lacking malts, bilous notes, watery. On tap at PA Flavor, April 9th, 2011.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Apr 2011
at 19:54
7.6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
FRO Throwdown: Copper hazy. Citrus and resin, grapefruit. Serious grapefruit hop flavors, bready malts in the background. Wow on the hop flavoring. Long bitter finish.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2009
at 22:29
7.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours amber cloudy, white head. Aroma, hoppy and fruity (lime / orange) Taste, I am not usually a big IPA / oppy fan, but this brew was damn sweet on the palate with still some hops bitetrness. Well balanced with malts and the fruits and the right dose of hops. This is one excellent 2xIPA. Zeus really hit this one with lightning bolts and did something amazing with this beer. The Gods are with us.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2008
at 17:23
7.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Courtesy of sebletitje. Pours deep orange with copper hues and off white head. The aroma has solid malt notes pairing up with tangelo and grapefruit juice. The taste has some creamy malt sweetness mixing with a mouth full of grapefruit hops and tangelo. Very nice mixture of flavors where the malty sweetness and the solid hops are in a tasty proportion to one another with the hops having the bolder character. Very nice IPA and decent IIPA.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2008
at 21:51
7.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Has a nice reddish copper hue with a head that lets me know it is hop heavy. That said, aromas are fairly mild and it is hard to pick up much more than some mild hops presence. Flavor is very nice, though and is a wonderful recovery from the mild nose. Big pine and citrus hops presence with enough caramel malt to keep it from coming across as watery or pure hops. At times the alcohol is too much and comes through as a little astringent, at other times it blends nicely. It’s a little rough around some of the edges, but better than most.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2008
at 23:35
6.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cappelli’s in Washington, PA. This brew pours a mostly clear dark amber color with a thin white head that dissipates slowly. Hoppy aroma with touches of pine and citrus. Medium-bodied with a moderately bitter hoppy character. Notes of pine and grapefruit with a small amount of malt in the background as well. The finish is hoppy with a lingering bitterness left behind. Overall there is just enough malt to keep this beer from becoming overly astringent but it is still pretty close to being too far in that direction. Still it is above average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2008
at 11:14
3.6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Perfect example of an over the top hopped ale. Darker than most. Rank bitter and excessive hop preservative effects. If you like IPA, DIPA, or IIPA; gotta try this. Not quite as 8% as the listing would indicate. Has a numbing effect on the olfactory and palate. Bitter, chewed on grapefruit rind, excessively long finish. Common for this rude style.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2008
at 14:24
7.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled on draft this beer poured a dark amber color with a medium sized soapy white head that left good lacing. The aroma was sweet pine, resin and grapefruit. The flavor was a nicely complex mix of piney, fruity and floral hops. There body was rather light and lacking malt backbone but the hoppy finish was long and pleasant.Well done.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jul 2007
at 18:54