Aslin Beer Company Mind the Hop

Mind the Hop

 

Aslin Beer Company in Alexandria, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Rotating
Score
7.14
ABV: 9.4% IBU: - Ticks: 37
Mind the Hop is a Double IPA that really hits home for us. One of the first beers we ever made. MTH is Double Dry Hopped with Citra which gives it notes of citrus and tropical fruit salad. Light pine and a little bitterness help round it out.

Admin Note: Like other Aslin IPAs, recipes bounce back and forth between double dry-hopping and not. The cans aren't labeled differently.
 

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sampled from the tap at the DC location. Pours a clear light copper with a white head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has dank citrus, vidallia onion and a bit of melon with cookie backing. Flavor has sweet onion with sweet grains, cookie and a bit of resin in the finish.

Tried from Draft at Aslin Beer Company - The District on 21 Nov 2025 at 20:07


6

Canned. Poours cloudy milky pale yellow. Tropical fruits and such. Pretty ok.

Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 01:59


6.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Very hazy straw yellow coloured body with a thinnish one to two centimetre tall frothy off-white head that fades fast, but leaves an ugly lace on the top and sides of the glass. Aroma of mangoes, oranges, wheat, curacao and a touch of pure caster sugar with some softer yeast and bread in the nose, too. Full-bodied; Very rich sugary, sweet and fruity flavours dominate with some deep wheat and oaty maltiness noticeable, but the orange, grapefruit and mango fruit flavours do come through as well, but the sweetness is strongest. Aftertaste is deep, dank, syrupy and sweet, with some relatively strong sugars that persist from beginning to end, with some noticeable fruit qualities, a lot of oat and wheat malt body and absolutely no bitterness, but this is a bit too sweet and cloying for me. Overall, a decent IPA that shows Imperial Status in the richness and sugary qualities and while the alcohol is hidden pretty well, this is pretty straight-forward and new-school, non-bitter and too sweet and cloying. Decent enough to try for the price, but not worth buying again! I sampled this four pack of sixteen ounce, pint-sized cans, purchased from Giant Food [grocery] in Manassas, Virginia on 18-December-2022 for US$9,99/four pack sampled at my house here in Washington on 03-January-2023.

Tried from Can on 01 Mar 2024 at 06:54


6

Grapefruit juice color pour. Grapefruit flavor with lily and pine palate. Light bodied light carbonation

Tried on 11 Sep 2023 at 19:43


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Orange peel nose, plastic underneath. Clear amber, medium head. Clementines, lemongrass, subtle hint of honey. Full body, soft carbonation.

Tried on 10 Sep 2023 at 21:03


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft at 50/50 Taphouse. Hazy yellow golden pour, small stursy white head. Aroma is cistrusy with light floral notes. Taste is grapefruit and pineapple, juicy with a nice heft.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2023 at 13:07


7

Tried on 08 Jul 2023 at 17:21


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Draught in Herndon: hazy orange with white head. Mango papaya and guava aromas. Taste is boozy, quite sweet, tangy. With boost.

Tried on 29 May 2023 at 02:42


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 09/02/23. Murky orange with a decent just off white cap. Nose is bitter orange, light floral nip, grass, pine needle, melon, papaya. Taste comprises orange zest, ripe pineapple, grass, airy malts, mango, soft malts. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with juicy come lightly resinous hop bitterness. Decent easy drinking DIPA ... comes in under the stated 9.5%.

Tried on 09 Feb 2023 at 19:21


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Panda 🐼 at home big thanks to Wingman. A translucent golden orange coloured pour with a halo of off white head. Aroma is light soapy citrus , dank, orange, grass. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, bready grains, sticky orange, some green mango, creamy orange, wood. Palate is semi sweet, light tang, moderate fine carbonation. Xolid.

Tried on 04 Feb 2023 at 18:00