BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse HopStorm IPA

HopStorm IPA

 

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse in Huntington Beach, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular
Score
6.48
ABV: 6.5% IBU: 65 Ticks: 46
BJ's own handcrafted classic American-style India Pale Ale made with six hop varieties. An intense hop aroma with balanced bitterness.
 

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Perfumey rose and orange flavor. Clear amber, medium head. Rose perfume flavor. Resinous medium body, soft carbonation. Too perfumey.

Tried on 29 Dec 2014 at 20:12


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Draft - Sweet caramel and hops. Clear gold with almost no head. Bitter and sweet with orange and some really odd notes. Smells ok, but tastes pretty poor.

Tried from Draft on 16 Dec 2014 at 13:46


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

I didn’t like this IPA as much as the pale ale. Reddish amber with a thin head. Hops were fruity, a bit tropical. Fairly sweeter caramel and fruit flavors with understated hops. Peppery persimmon is the most I got out of it.

Tried on 14 Dec 2014 at 10:17


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap. Pours a clear gold with a white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces. Aroma has a nice pine hoppiness with hints of grapefruit and resin. Flavor is similar with pine and more resin coming through as well as a strong sweet grain backbone.

Tried from Draft on 18 Apr 2014 at 11:53


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Sacramento Venue. Pours ruddy amber with a slight white head. Citrus aroma. Med body. Citrus and caramel flavors. Decent amount of hop. Nice drink. Finishes firmly bitter.

Tried from Draft on 16 Feb 2014 at 13:27


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Mineral taste and nose. Smells like a rusty nail or copper penny. Taste is bitter. Slight juiciness. But terrible finish

Tried on 16 Dec 2013 at 23:01


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

5-6 oz mini pils flute draft at the BJs Brewhouse in Coral Springs, Florida. The pour is clear golden copper with not much of an off white head. The aroma almost nothing, just incredibly faint earthiness. The taste is a strange blend of herbal earthy bitter and a sort of a pungent vegetal. Some dank weed in the finish, though not really in the normal pleasant way. The palate is medium bodied with soft to no carbonation and the weird aftertaste. Flawed, can’t imagine the perception of “IPA” a newbie would get from this beer.

Tried from Draft on 15 Oct 2013 at 14:45


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

On tap at the Hillsboro location. Pours a clear copper color with a small white head. The aroma is fruit and resinous hops. The flavor is also quite full of sweet resin hops, caramel, a good bit of bitterness. Fits oddly, rough and not well put together, but altogether decent.

Tried from Draft on 12 Oct 2013 at 21:42


3.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

I have to go against the grain on this beer. It is poorly mqde and not good. It does look nice with a a hazy amber color and thick lacing head. But a minimum of hop aroma or flavor combined with a light grain flavor and little else here.

Tried on 08 Sep 2013 at 11:49


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Draft: Poured a golden to copper color with an off white head. Aroma is light hops. Nice soft hops taste that seemed thin, but refreshing on the hot Florida day.

Tried from Draft on 15 Jul 2013 at 00:08