Hop Hog IPA
Lancaster Brewing Co. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.52
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You’re in for a hard charging, yet remarkably drinkable brew in our Hop Hog IPA! Delivering layered citrus hop flavors and a solid malt profile, we doubled down on the dry hopping for even more fresh hop character.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear is orange. Whire head. Malty piney hops. Pretty drinkable IPA. Decent. ...
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can: Poured a caramel orange with a huge frothy carbonated head. Aroma is hoppy, grassy, citrus, malts. Taste is bitter hops, citrus, caramel balancing malts.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2024
at 01:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Tropical fruit, citrus, caramel notes, pine. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Apr 2022
at 00:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz can in 2022, but I had this in bottle when it came out 15 years back or so. Malty, full bodied. Not really that impressive on most levels. Drinks like an old East Coast IPA from the 2000s, not much finesse, heavy handed. Resinous stale hop aroma. Better than a poorly made NE IPA, but still not that great of an example of an IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jan 2022
at 05:19
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hop greens and some caramel. A little pine but light. Pours brownish amber with ok head. Light bitter end. Ok. Can from Outlet Liquors
Tried
from Can
on 17 Aug 2019
at 18:44
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Tap) clear, bright yellow orange colour with a small white head; aroma of citrus; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Sep 2018
at 23:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a burnt glossy copper color with a sly transparency about it. Carbonation was somewhat seen rising at a moderately slow pace. Speckled lace followed the finger’s worth of white foamy head that slid off fairly slow.
The aroma had some bold citrusy to floral hop character up front flowing over a clean sturdy malt base - somewhat caramel/toffee.
The flavor was moderately sweet through the blend of hops to malts and infusing a stiff biscuit/cracker backbone that bled into the aftertaste. Finish was malty but had a little bit of hop spice.
The palate was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt appropriate. Some acceptable bitter harshness.
Overall, I was a bit surprised at this one as it seemed like a Long Trail IPA put on steroids to lean towards the American side of the wheelhouse and actually quite good. Amazing that I grew up in the county directly north of this brewery and I haven’t had this IPA until this week and it’s as good as it is.
The aroma had some bold citrusy to floral hop character up front flowing over a clean sturdy malt base - somewhat caramel/toffee.
The flavor was moderately sweet through the blend of hops to malts and infusing a stiff biscuit/cracker backbone that bled into the aftertaste. Finish was malty but had a little bit of hop spice.
The palate was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt appropriate. Some acceptable bitter harshness.
Overall, I was a bit surprised at this one as it seemed like a Long Trail IPA put on steroids to lean towards the American side of the wheelhouse and actually quite good. Amazing that I grew up in the county directly north of this brewery and I haven’t had this IPA until this week and it’s as good as it is.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2017
at 16:10
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottled@Oliver Twist, Stockholm (backlog). Pale copper colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruits, glue, alcohol, grains and some other rubbery notes. Flavour is citrus, fruits, toffee, glue, alcohol and some mild metal and rubber to it. Not sure how the metal and rubber has come here, but makes the beer feel very unclean.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2015
at 00:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at bar in PHL. Moderate high citrus aroma. Clear am er with moderate ivory head. Taste is citrus and solid malt background. Sweetness prevails.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Sep 2014
at 13:37
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Drought at International Great Beer Expo (Meadowlands). Light amber color with off-white foamy head, hops aroma, high carbonation, hoppy taste with longish finish. It felkt a bit thin bodied and weak.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2014
at 09:28