Outpost #2 - Hop Miner
Uncharted Brew Co. in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij de HopHemelBrewed at/by: Brouwerij de HopHemel
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Special
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Score
7.04
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This is the second stop in the UNCHARTED OUTPOSTS series — a travelling project where Uncharted Brew Co takes full creative control on hijacked stainless.
Brewed at our heavenly friends of Hophemel for the 2026 Beer Experience Festival, UNCHARTED HOP MINER is a Black West Coast IPA that digs deep. It’s sharp and dry in the glass, bursting with grapefruit zest and sticky pine, finishing with a tight, assertive bitterness that stays raw and unpolished — pure underground energy.
Whirlpool: Cascade/Amarillo
Dry Hop: Cascade/Citra/Centennial
Other tanks, same burning fuel.
Brewed at our heavenly friends of Hophemel for the 2026 Beer Experience Festival, UNCHARTED HOP MINER is a Black West Coast IPA that digs deep. It’s sharp and dry in the glass, bursting with grapefruit zest and sticky pine, finishing with a tight, assertive bitterness that stays raw and unpolished — pure underground energy.
Whirlpool: Cascade/Amarillo
Dry Hop: Cascade/Citra/Centennial
Other tanks, same burning fuel.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Fast gone cream head over deep reddish, very dark brown beer. Straw, coal, hopoil galore, hints at some exotic fruit, haybales. Sweetish, light ashy roast with again lots of hay, some fruity esters and lots of New World hops. Bananapeel, bit of resin. Medium bodied, quite slick/oily; light to medium carbonation. Quite good IBA, and especially the nose is excellent.
Tried
from Can
from
Station 1280
on 13 Sep 2026
at 08:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Can at home from Sterk - Amsterdam, 3rd August 2026 - in the garden - a but lacklustre
Tried
from Can
from
Sterk Avondverkoop
on 03 Aug 2026
at 20:04
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml can. Jet black colour with small to average, frothy, diminishing, off-white head. Roasty, dark malty and herbal-grassy, hoppy aroma, hints of coffee and menthol. Taste dito.
Oily texture, smooth and soft palate, medium to fine, soft carbonation.
Earthy, herbal, oily - nice.
Oily texture, smooth and soft palate, medium to fine, soft carbonation.
Earthy, herbal, oily - nice.
Tried
from Can
from
Little Beershop
on 29 Jun 2026
at 23:11
8.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
33cl can @ Borger Bottles, BB 13/03/2027. Batch# HH-26002.
Très belle découverte - brune/beige, col crémeux blanc-cassé assez tenace.
Arôme est frais houblonné avec une grosse dose de résine, frais houblonné, hop bag - franchement un beau rappel aux vraies black IPA. Notes maltées en support dont des pointes de caramel, chocolaté marqué.
Palais sur une grosse dose houblonnée, rappelant les belles Black IPA d'antan. Ici, une grosse dose de résine, agrumes et de chanvre, bubblegum le tout repris par une bonne base maltée tirant sur le chocolaté, toasté voire des notes de toffee tout en ayant ce petit côté épicé houblonné en fin de bouche.
Très belle découverte - brune/beige, col crémeux blanc-cassé assez tenace.
Arôme est frais houblonné avec une grosse dose de résine, frais houblonné, hop bag - franchement un beau rappel aux vraies black IPA. Notes maltées en support dont des pointes de caramel, chocolaté marqué.
Palais sur une grosse dose houblonnée, rappelant les belles Black IPA d'antan. Ici, une grosse dose de résine, agrumes et de chanvre, bubblegum le tout repris par une bonne base maltée tirant sur le chocolaté, toasté voire des notes de toffee tout en ayant ce petit côté épicé houblonné en fin de bouche.
Tried
from Can
from
Borger Bottles
on 28 Apr 2026
at 11:26