Hop Tanker
El Segundo Brewing Company in El Segundo, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.19
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle from City Beer Store, San Francisco, CA
Bottled 032914 - Pours dark orange with a smooth white head. Aroma of wet fruity hops, grass, citrus, resinous notes, pine, marmalade and caramely malts. Taste is wet hoppy, caramely malty, sweetish and resinous with notes of pine and grass. Finish is wet hoppy and sweetish with some maltiness and resinous notes. Quite tasty and wet hoppy DIPA.
Bottled 032914 - Pours dark orange with a smooth white head. Aroma of wet fruity hops, grass, citrus, resinous notes, pine, marmalade and caramely malts. Taste is wet hoppy, caramely malty, sweetish and resinous with notes of pine and grass. Finish is wet hoppy and sweetish with some maltiness and resinous notes. Quite tasty and wet hoppy DIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2014
at 04:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and pine aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with tropical fruit. Medium bodied. Very good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine lingers with tropical fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2013
at 11:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
22 oz. bottle, pours a clear golden orange with a small white head. Nose is full of pine, resinous hops, and just enough caramel malt to back. Flavour is extremely well-balanced, bringing out juicy notes of tropical fruity hops, resin, some pine, and just enough malt to balance. Tons of depth to this - a highly juicy IIPA without too much residual sweetness at first. The more you drink, the sweeter this becomes and the more difficult it becomes to drink. Decent stuff, but not exactly my style of IIPA - too sweet and syrupy after a while.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2013
at 15:38
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a medium-light yellow-gold color. The head is medium to small in size and just a bit off white. The aroma is all hops. They’re big and sweet. Tropical citrus takes the front seat, but that grapey Nelson Sauvin flavor is right there, as well. Lots of pineapple, tangerine, mango, sweet grapes. There’s also a nice pine/juniper resinous background in the mix. Some berries bouncing around. The taste is big on hop flavor. Lots more of the same sweet tropical citrus mixed with sugary grapes. The beer never gets terribly bitter, but the finish shows off a little pine resin bite, which reins things in nicely. Light caramel sweetness but I’d probably call it mildly dry, overall. Light on the palate but still coats the mouth with oily hoppiness. Very good DIPA and the best beer that I’ve had from El Segundo. They did a good job showing off the blend of Nelson Sauvin and Citra hops. Great work.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2013
at 21:43
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Bine & Vine. Pours golden amber with a creamy off-white head. Aroma of tropical fruit visited by a cat. It is a really lush, sort of swampy smell. Med + body. Flavor starts with a little caramel, rushed by mixed fruit, followed by citrus zest and any number of other things. No apparent heat - except perhaps down the gullet. Hop is coating my tongue, and I think there’s a smooth hop burn building. Damn but this is really good stuff. Not NW harsh - this is quite refined - but it’s as hoppy as NW IMHO.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2013
at 16:56