Blue Dot
Hair of the Dog Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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Blue Dot is named after our planet: we are only a pale blue dot in this universe. Made with Organic Pilsner malt, Rye malt and a combination of intense hop varieties. Pour slowly to allow the sediments to remain in the bottle. Make every day Earth Day. Be something nice for your mother.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Borefts 2017. Clear golden with small off white head. Sweet malts, grassy hops, light mango, dank herbs, honey. Over medium sweet, bitter and bodied. OK.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Sep 2017
at 07:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Borefts 2017 day 1. Clear golden with thin white head. Sweet malts, light fruity and floral. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2017
at 07:21
Tried
on 10 Sep 2017
at 18:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
At the source: pours deep golden with white head. Aroma is citrus pine and nuggets. Taste is bitter but not too much so. Old school but not too malty or sweet. Easy to drink and pretty good. Definite rye notes in there.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2017
at 20:55
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Thanks Frank!
Bottle to tulip.
The appearance was a golden sunshine yellow color with a two finger’s worth of white foamy head. Seemed to really take it’s time in dissipating, I didn’t mind. Some heavy lace ran here and there.
The aroma spoke of some sweet to soft spicy rye, light floral hop tones, some herbal, light citrus, a touch of resin, light passion fruit and ended with some sweet fresh grassy tones.
The flavor came between the sweet to spicy portions and then subtly allowing the passion fruit to make a light presence. Not much of an aftertaste, seemed somewhat fresh piney to that passion fruit with a cohesive piney to grassy and passion fruit sweet sort of finish.
The palate was about medium bodied with a good sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt spot on. ABV felt as projected. Bitterness was there yet contained enough to not impart much hop abrasion.
Overall, well, damn! I totally understand the hype train behind this one. I’m jumping on!
Bottle to tulip.
The appearance was a golden sunshine yellow color with a two finger’s worth of white foamy head. Seemed to really take it’s time in dissipating, I didn’t mind. Some heavy lace ran here and there.
The aroma spoke of some sweet to soft spicy rye, light floral hop tones, some herbal, light citrus, a touch of resin, light passion fruit and ended with some sweet fresh grassy tones.
The flavor came between the sweet to spicy portions and then subtly allowing the passion fruit to make a light presence. Not much of an aftertaste, seemed somewhat fresh piney to that passion fruit with a cohesive piney to grassy and passion fruit sweet sort of finish.
The palate was about medium bodied with a good sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt spot on. ABV felt as projected. Bitterness was there yet contained enough to not impart much hop abrasion.
Overall, well, damn! I totally understand the hype train behind this one. I’m jumping on!
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2017
at 16:55
9/10
Tried
on 18 May 2017
at 18:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 650ml @ yngwie - 2016/17 new year tasting
Pours clear deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, grapefruit, pine needles and caramel. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long citrus, piney, caramel and grapefruity finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours clear deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, grapefruit, pine needles and caramel. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long citrus, piney, caramel and grapefruity finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2017
at 14:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Tap at beerlovers bar. Pours unclear blonde, big fluffy white head. Smell is intense, green hop, some fruits. Taste is full, bitter, grainy, very aromatic, full. Great ! Very full, bitter ending.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2017
at 17:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at ACBF 2017. Pours hazy golden with white head. Fruity, apricot, citrus, pine, malty, light to moderate hoppiness, bitter finish. Medium bodied. Expected a bit more.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2017
at 10:22
8/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of Blue Dot Double IPA on 09 Mar 2017 at 09:22 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9. Original review text: Sampled at ACBF 2017, Vichte. Semi-hazy golden pour with a fine-grained off-white head. Notes of tropical hops, passion fruit, citrus, perfumey hops, caramel and a bit of honey. Really well-balanced, a pleasure to drink.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2017
at 17:26