Juggernaut
Abbeydale Brewery in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England 🏴
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.65
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DDH Double IPA
There’s a new big DIPA in town! Introducing JUGGERNAUT, the latest addition to our Brewers’ Emporium range. 8.0% and boldly hop forward, using Citra, Centennial and Mosaic Lupocore. The hops are layered over a clean flavour profile which allows all those gorgeously vivid tropical notes to shine. Full bodied and showcasing true to style flavours and aromas, with a hefty, juicy character, rounded notes of sweet peach and a bitterness in the finish that invites you straight back for another sip.
The beer overall was dreamed up by our Production Director John, inspired by his trip to the Yakima hop harvest last summer and the DIPAs he tried on his travels, which you can read more about here.
This is the first time we’ve used Lupocore, which is a hop product newly released in the UK. It’s all natural, scientifically engineered, enhanced hop flavour, intended to provide a bold sensory boost! Lupocore is similar in appearance to a T90 hop pellet, but softer and crumblier. This means it can disperse more quickly, thus providing a greater surface area, increasing flavour transfer and getting more out of the hops. It also has better sedimentation qualities, leading to an improved yield and efficiency – maybe not the sexiest way to promote a hop product to the end drinker, but here at the brewery it’s really important for us to get the most from our kit and do so as sustainably as we can, minimising waste and having greater control over our output.
We’ve also used Carapils from traditional maltsters Weyermann to add a little body whilst keeping the malt base clean. This allows the hop profile to shine most brightly, maximising the potential of the Lupocore. It’s our first time using Carapils too, which has been added in place of wheat for body and head retention, so it’s fair to say Juggernaut really is an innovative beer for us!
Gluten Free
There’s a new big DIPA in town! Introducing JUGGERNAUT, the latest addition to our Brewers’ Emporium range. 8.0% and boldly hop forward, using Citra, Centennial and Mosaic Lupocore. The hops are layered over a clean flavour profile which allows all those gorgeously vivid tropical notes to shine. Full bodied and showcasing true to style flavours and aromas, with a hefty, juicy character, rounded notes of sweet peach and a bitterness in the finish that invites you straight back for another sip.
The beer overall was dreamed up by our Production Director John, inspired by his trip to the Yakima hop harvest last summer and the DIPAs he tried on his travels, which you can read more about here.
This is the first time we’ve used Lupocore, which is a hop product newly released in the UK. It’s all natural, scientifically engineered, enhanced hop flavour, intended to provide a bold sensory boost! Lupocore is similar in appearance to a T90 hop pellet, but softer and crumblier. This means it can disperse more quickly, thus providing a greater surface area, increasing flavour transfer and getting more out of the hops. It also has better sedimentation qualities, leading to an improved yield and efficiency – maybe not the sexiest way to promote a hop product to the end drinker, but here at the brewery it’s really important for us to get the most from our kit and do so as sustainably as we can, minimising waste and having greater control over our output.
We’ve also used Carapils from traditional maltsters Weyermann to add a little body whilst keeping the malt base clean. This allows the hop profile to shine most brightly, maximising the potential of the Lupocore. It’s our first time using Carapils too, which has been added in place of wheat for body and head retention, so it’s fair to say Juggernaut really is an innovative beer for us!
Gluten Free
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5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4.5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can. Dram Shop I think. Or Mitchell’s Wines. Hazed glowing gold. Slim super sticky white foam. Lots of syrupy peach and pineapple. Ripe orange. Sticky cereal. You know what you’re in for here. Taste is overwhelmingly sweet with a very late arrival of some citrus bitterness. This is grim. Has it even finished fermenting? Awful.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2026
at 19:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
440ml can from Craft & Berry. Gluten Free. Hazed orangey golden colour, bubbly white foam head and aroma of tropical, mango, spicy citrus, resiny hops. Taste is malt, grain, tangy, spicy, fruity, citrusy, with pine and resinous hop bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry spicy hoppy bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Can
from
Craft & Berry
on 02 Jul 2026
at 19:39