Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Hoptimum (2026)

Hoptimum (2026)

 

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Triple Regular
Score
7.17
ABV: 11.0% IBU: 75 Ticks: 4
Fancy seeing me here! After all, the place can hardly hold 11% — I’m scraping the rafters. Makes for a good view, and it’s clear when a room needs what I’ve got in spades: fruity, dank, and devilishly hoppy flavor. Your night is looking up. Savor it and don’t blink because I like to vanish in a puff of lupulin dust.

Malts: Two-row Pale, White Wheat
Hops: Chinook, Citra, CTZ, Ekuanot, Idaho 7, Magnum
Yeast: Ale
 

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7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Lots of caramel in this one. Comes off almost like their Bigfoot in a sense. There's plenty of grapefruit and caramelized pine resin here. Pours clear golden with decent head. Bittersweet finish. Tap at Churchkey. I remember liking other Hoptimums more than than this year's.
Tried from Draft at ChurchKey on 06 Aug 2026 at 21:52

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
12oz bottle. Pours clear deep gold with a white head. Loads of caramelized orange rind, grapefruit peels, and resins on the nose. Flavour has a great sticky malt base, loads of caramel, and the hops have lots of resinous pine, and caramelized citrus peels. Lightly bitter on the finish with some boozy heat as well. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle from John's Marketplace - SE Powell on 02 Aug 2026 at 23:04

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 oz. bottle, pours a clear deep amber with a small beige head. Aroma is full of truckloads of resinous hops, big orange rind, grapefruit peel, tropical fruits, and huge, sticky caramel malt as well. Flavour is massive in both the hop and malt departments, somehow retaining wonderful balance. Again, there’s truckloads of resinous hops and big sticky caramel malts on the other side, with lots of bitter grapefruit peel and tropical stone fruits on the finish. Balanced well for such a monstrous, old school hop bomb. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle from John's Marketplace - SE Powell on 30 Jun 2026 at 03:03

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Tried from Draft at ChurchKey on 27 Jun 2026 at 20:52