Hop Adventure - Styrian Wolf Hop
O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company in Bagenalstown, Carlow, Ireland 🇮🇪
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Score
6.71
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With notes of berries, tropical fruits and citrus, IPA fans will be pleased to know that this beer ticks every box in terms of what is expected from an IPA and yet still is unique in every way.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
0,5 l bottle. Pours hazy golden yellow with a finger of medium lasting frothy white head. Aroma is fruity and herbal, tropical fruit, some citrus, elderflower with it's unmistakable rich sweetness, biscuit malt. Taste is medium sweet, light to medium bitter. Body is medium, texture slick and carbonation above average. Finish is medium long, fruity and herbal flavor fade quite quickly and medium spicy bitterness. Decent and pleasantly drinkable beer if not an exquisite one. Pleasant surprise all together, single hop beers can be tricky, Styrian Wolf hop more so...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Deep gold. Foggy. Half-an-inch tall white head. Average retention. Aroma: biscuit, honey, floral notes. Medium minus body. Taste: honey malts, biscuit accompanied by balancing British hops. Light plus bitterness. Discreet one. OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500nl bottle from Iceland (4 for £6) - Clear amber body, steady white top. Sweet citrus hop nose, slightly bittersweet syrup on the taste. Decent enough for the price.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Golden, clear, good white foam. Strange aroma: spicy, grass and herbal, light fruitiness, slightly berry. Taste: butter (hi diacetyl), light fruits and citrus, a little spicy, soft hop bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Terre de Boissons Calais and drunk on a train. Some caramel some bitterness on the finish. some hop flavour but mostly bitter and caramel. Decent hop really. Ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from SuperValu. Amber gold with a thin head. Aroma of sticky tropical fruit. Spicy caramel malt, biscuit, citrus on a bitter hop finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bit unclear, yellow golden colored, medium white head, nice lasting and OK lacing. Aroma is of some malt, light caramel, moderate hoppy tropical fruit, some coconut, Sorachilike, bit grassy. Taste is medium- sweet malt, bit caramel, moderate aroma of coconut, tropical fruit, some lemon, some grassy notes, medium- bitterness, dryish finish, mellow. Medium- bodied, soft carbonation. (bottle, Vrutak, Zagreb)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Tesco, Carrick-on-Shannon [260317]
Dark amber, clear, frothy white head
Aroma of soft herbal hops, yeah there’s a hint of wild raspberry
Taste of fairly herbal hops, some bitter hedgerow hops, soft caramel malts, bitter spicy, that slight wild raspberry
Palate - Soft carb, medium light body, fairly bitter. Finish has more bitter spicy hop afters
Overall - Unusual hop - on the first taste I liked it, but with the drinking I got less keen on the hop flavour. This is the 2nd best in the series so far for me, the Galaxy one being a bit better
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared by Beersiveknown @ tasting at his place. Huge thanks Steve! Clear golden color, average sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, hops, decent hop and malt bitterness. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 0.50l. Clear golden amber color with medium creamy white head and average sparkling appearance. Aroma of flowers, bubblegum, herbs and some rubber. Taste starts with medium sweet biscuit and toasted malt, follows by citrus, flowers and bubblegum, while finish is pleasantly bitter. Medium body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. I’m starting to like Styrian wolf...