Hop Hazard Pale Ale
River Horse Brewing Company in Ewing, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.34
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
on tap-pours a creamy, rich tan head that laces. Color is copper. Aroma hops. Taste is lighter hops with a bite. Secondary malt and sweetness. Medium carbonation and medium body. This beer seemed to vary on each serving and from a bottle too.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
An amber beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is sweet alcoholic and rather hoppy, while the flavor is sweet alcoholic, combinede with light notes of metal, and the hops only makes their presence known from a dry end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle that was just put on the shelves at A Street Wines in Cambridge. Should be fresh, but flavor is anything but. Almost exactly the same as the Special Ale, only add a pronounced hops bitterness and light flavor. The hops are old and soaked, giving a nutty, soily, stale flavor. Though not really much flavor at all. Just really a dry, floral bitterness, leafy and lightly papery. Aroma has some notes of these hops, sourish yeast or sourish grains or something sour, anyways. Light butteriness, astringent and bland. An orangish-copper colored beer, with a chill haze, rather lifeless looking, with a thin string of bubbles on the edges, no lacing. Malt has left the building.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
I haven’t had good experiences with this brewery in the past, so I was pleasantly surprised by this one - cloudy amber with sticky white lace - malty, sweet aroma with hints of gingerbread, strawberry and background hops - kind of like a very malty esb - mostly sweet up front, bready and biscuity - hops swell up later on, with a decent helping of cascade hops to finish things off - if you must try a river horse product, I’d make this he one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
This poured deep amber with a rocky head. Light malt and hops in the nose. The flavor was bitter through to the end, almost astringent. Good, not great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2nd Rating:
Amber colour with a very nice light tan colour head of about 2 centimetres. Smells of hops (grapefruity) a bit of malt and a bit of sugar. Medium-bodied; Assertive hoppiness followed by malt characteristics. Very well-rounded, a strong but mellow APA. About average for the style and perhaps a bit better. Worth trying if you've already had Tupper's Hop Pocket Ale, and only then :). I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Beers of the World in Rochester, New York. Rating for this bottle: 8,4,7,4,13
Bottle at the Brickskeller:
Golden brown in colour, little smell...mild start. Hoppy finish, but not overwhelming! I miss the hops...with a name like 'Hop Hazard' it should compete with Tuppers Hop Pocket Ale, but not even close!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Red-orange. Soft, nice grapefruit aroma. Well balanced. ...................
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Robust English interpretation with a lot more malt than the name would suggest - very earthy. Hops more a factor in the bitterness than aroma.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A nicely balanced pale ale that is aggressively hopped yet with a firm malt base (as accurately described on the label). The main defect is was the presence of some off-tastes that i couldn't really identify but were there nonetheless.