Dark Star Brewing Co. Hophead - Dry

Hophead - Dry

 

Dark Star Brewing Co. in Partridge Green, West Sussex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production
Score
6.99
ABV: 3.8% IBU: - Ticks: 12
In our annual meddling with our most popular session beer, we've subjected it to some dry hopping treatment to produce a beer with plenty of grapefruit notes and citrus over flora (well that’s how our head brewer described it). You could say it’s our take on ‘Dry January’.

Only brewed / available in early 2016.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask @ Egham 23. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 260316

Tried from Cask on 26 Mar 2016 at 08:04


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

Cask at the herriot watt beer festival 2016.. Golden amber.. Thin white lacing.. Soft zezty floral fruits nose.. Soft sweet custardy orange floral fruits

Tried from Cask on 17 Mar 2016 at 09:40


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the 2016 NWAF, The Roundhouse, Derby. Gold pour with a white head. Apricot, sweet citrus and peach aroma. Crisp citrus flavours with a whisper of vanilla and apricot. Sharp citrus bite. Good stuff.

Tried from Cask on 15 Mar 2016 at 09:55


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

Cask gravity at Firkin Ale House Folkestone, golden beer lasting white head. as good as Hophead used to be. Very drinkable. Very leafy hop pink grapefruit. Excellent.

Tried from Cask on 01 Mar 2016 at 12:37


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

Cask at Oliver Twist. Clear deep golden liquid with medium off-white head. Aroma of citrus, tangerine, fresh hops, light bread, grass and mango. Taste is dry and light bitter with notes of fresh hops, citrus, tangerine, hop pellets, grain and biscuit. Light to medium bodied with low carbon. Solid hote golde, but there’s a lot of hop pellet flavor. Feels a bit immature.

Tried from Cask on 26 Feb 2016 at 12:55


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

Cask at Black Door, Helsinki. Colour is clear orange with small bubbly white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, floral, hops and malts. Yes, it’s quite dry.

Tried from Cask on 25 Feb 2016 at 10:34


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm, 12 Feb 2016) Pale golden colour with foamy, white head. Malty, hoppy nose with notes of citrus, tea, leafy hops and biscuits. Malty, hoppy taste with citrus, lemon peel, biscuits, leafy hops and a slightly soapy finish with a balanced citric bitterness. Light body, with a certain sweetness. Fresh and tasty with high drinkability. Nice one.

Tried from Cask on 13 Feb 2016 at 10:24


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

Cask @ Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge. Golden with a thin head. Dry hopped as you might imagine, but possibly not quite as dry tasting as you might expect - it’s somewhat crisp.

Tried from Cask on 08 Feb 2016 at 07:50


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the Stockbridge tap. Pours clear golden, nose is toffee, light fruit, taste is sweet, dry, fruity.

Tried from Cask on 05 Feb 2016 at 09:20


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

Cask at Stockbridge Tap. Finally! It pours clear golden - amber with a dense white head. The nose is fresh, skunky, dank, grass, earth, sweet floral and some sweet orangey citrus. The taste is crisp, dry, grassy, skunky, dank, grapefruit, lime, orange and waxy peel with a dry finish. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Subtle, interesting and very well balanced. Really crushable as well. Superlative.

Tried from Cask on 04 Feb 2016 at 08:05