Hoo Lawd
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Rotating Out of Production|
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5.46
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We’ve created another boundary-pushing off-centered ale. This time, it just so happens to be the hoppiest beer ever documented through scientific analysis. While the average IPA lands somewhere between 40-60 IBUs, this latest release clocks in at 658 IBUs (international bittering units). Hoo Lawd, as we’ve affectionately named it, comes from the sensation you get after you take your first sip.
Brewed with an experimental hop referred to as “Alpha Beast” along with Simcoe, Warrior and Amarillo hops in CO2 extract, Hoo Lawd takes dark IPA into an intergalactic black hole of hoppiness. Sam and Brewmaster Tim Hawn worked with Yakima Chief Hopunion to procure all of the hop varieties and formats for this beer. While other awesome, uber hoppy beers have claimed to achieve higher theoretical IBUs, Hoo Lawd has received scientific confirmation and documentation from two independent labs that this is, in fact, the hoppiest commercial beer ever brewed.
Brewed with an experimental hop referred to as “Alpha Beast” along with Simcoe, Warrior and Amarillo hops in CO2 extract, Hoo Lawd takes dark IPA into an intergalactic black hole of hoppiness. Sam and Brewmaster Tim Hawn worked with Yakima Chief Hopunion to procure all of the hop varieties and formats for this beer. While other awesome, uber hoppy beers have claimed to achieve higher theoretical IBUs, Hoo Lawd has received scientific confirmation and documentation from two independent labs that this is, in fact, the hoppiest commercial beer ever brewed.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Growler split at RB Best Encomium share, Santa Rosa, 30/01/16 - Many Thanks ! Rich black with a dirty tan cap. Nose is pin needle, dark malts, spice, bitter citric and tropical fruit esters. Taste comprises pine needle, light roast, black peppery spice, earthy, burnt toffee, dark fruit rinds. Medium + bodied, fine carbonation, drying close peppered with semi aggressive leafy hop bitterness. Thought this was a decent enough hop forward CDA ... surprised by the other rates in the room !
Tried
from Growler
on 21 Sep 2017
at 09:17
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle shared at Ratebeer awards show. 30/01/2016. Huge thanks! Murky brown coloured pour with no head. Aroma is lighter fluid, big hop resin, pine and solventy hot alcohol. Flavour is composed of nutty brown malts, big bitter bastard hops, hop extract. Palate is now fucked. Palate is resinous moderate carbonation. sticky hop. Weird BIPA tick but i’ll take it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2017
at 12:21
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
[1/30/16] Growler sample at the Encomium bottle share, after RateBeer Best awards ceremony at Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa. Thanks everyone who shared bottles! Brown. Stale hops. Sweet and extremely bitter. Leafy. Awful.
Tried
from Growler
on 12 Feb 2016
at 18:21
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3
Growler at the Rate Beer Awards Festival Bottle Share. One of only a few available ever. Nose of pine, grass, caramel, chocolate, resins. Dark brown. Ass bitter resinous flavor, a bit of caramel but undrinkably bitter and astringent and resinous. An interesting experiment, now grind the taste off my tongue.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2016
at 00:09
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Sample from EBF 2016 Only one of us ventured to get a sample of this and honestly it was plenty for the three of us to get a sample. Resinous earthy piney hop pellet aroma and flavor. Bracingly bitter downright undrinkable.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2016
at 21:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Growler thanks to Toby at the RB awards
Clear dark brown with a small beige head, some lacing. Aroma is fruity and pine resin. Flavors of pine resin and woody
I kinda liked it.
Clear dark brown with a small beige head, some lacing. Aroma is fruity and pine resin. Flavors of pine resin and woody
I kinda liked it.
Tried
from Growler
on 02 Feb 2016
at 15:53
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Growler. Pours a dark brown with no head. The aroma is strong malt bomb and pine. Medium mouth, overly bitter, whyyy.
Tried
from Growler
on 31 Jan 2016
at 01:34
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Growler - Big sweet, hoppy and bitter. Deep cloudy brown with a light brown head, bitter, hoppy and very malty. Like burnt bitter malts.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2016
at 22:19
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 3
Growler pour thanks to Toby. pours out a dark brown almost black topped with tan head. nose is pine and heavy malts. Taste is so bad like linking a pine cone.
Tried
from Growler
on 30 Jan 2016
at 22:15
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Hazed brown, minimal head. Aromas are fruity, resiny, estery, mild roast, pine tar. Yes, damn. Bitter. Really really really bitter. Resin, some co-humulone bite. Pine cone. Mild hop. Medicinally bitter and astringent. Roasty. Some very raw hop flavors. Medium carbonation, full mouthfeel. Intense. Not great tasting, but I guess that was not the point.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2015
at 14:12