Hopitoulas IPA
NOLA Brewing Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.78
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West Coast style India Pale Ale that combines 6 malts and 6 hops with additional dry hopping for three weeks. It takes about a month and a half to make each batch and we think it is worth the wait. Hints of pine and citrus with a powerful, yet balanced hoppy flavor, Hopitoulas packs a punch that you won’t forget.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From tap at NOLA Brewing, New Orleans. Fairly malty IPA with caramel, toasted malt, and soft herbal hops. Hints of fruits and pine. Pretty sweet with a medium bitterness. Body is medium. Unexpectedly malt-forward for an IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Feb 2025
at 12:17
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Nola, pours an opaque dark orange with a small white head. Aroma has a weird earthy, armpit-y hop character and bready malt. Flavour has some issues, with a strange earthy hop character, floral soapiness… ugh. Too floral and just not a nice hop expression. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Feb 2024
at 02:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at Emporium NOLA. Pours a gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has pine and citrus rind with some grain and light resin underlying. Flavor combines pine and light citrus rind with a touch of grass and a light grain backbone.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Oct 2022
at 00:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can Liz brought from Vin Carre. Pours orange tinged gold with a creamy white head. Aroma suggests orange citrus with light malt support. Med body. Flavor is fairly dry, at least moderately bitter, and definitely has orange citrus aspects. Decent IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Aug 2022
at 23:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Got this 16 oz can from the Cellar in adjacent Odessa TX. End of the session IPA, it cuts through the murk. My Great Heights snifter for this one, I see a opaque, dark yellow liquid finished by a long lasting, creamy white head. Ah, nice nose, piney, grassy and a promise of citrus. The drink is old-school, straightforward IPA. Lemon, pine cones, some maltiness and a bit of honey sweetness, where did that come from? I can appreciate it all.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2020
at 03:02
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Surprised at how half-assed this IPA comes across, considering how many excellent example of the style NOLA's put forth. Utter lack of hops on the nose is unforgivable; the aroma is wort and caramel, with nary a trace of citrus or pine or dank to be found. Taste gives up mild pine and caramel backed up by grapefruit, candied orange zest, and yeast. Finishes bitter, but not in an endearing, old-school West Coast sort of way. Not good.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2019
at 00:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Pours a hazy copper color with a white head. Tropical fruit, citrus, pine, caramel notes. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jul 2019
at 22:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is grapefruity and slight citrusy. Bitter, smooth fruity. Crisp hoppy. Bitter and lingering fruity finish. Crisp fruity finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Dec 2017
at 12:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Some pine and some light citrus. Ok, but subdued hops like you have a weight on your ankle. Bitter finish. Tall can thanks to Maigua.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Nov 2017
at 21:40
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Tap at taproom. Clear orange color, small steady white head and lace. Light citrus in the nose. Medium-bodied. Some roped fruityness, some citrus. Quite watery and easy for its abv.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Feb 2017
at 18:50