Hop Lava
Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery in Hood River, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.99
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours yellow gold white head. Nose/taste of caramel malt, citrus, resin, florals, orange blossom, spicy toasted bread and lemon peel. Lighter medium body.
stevoj (18327) reviewed Hop Lava from Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
I like the word in the description, that says "glowing", it fits. Beautiful hazy medium golden with high, rocky head; big, chunky bits of lacing. Light but pungent hop aroma, hops and malt represent equally in the taste, some spiciness. Slight astringency burn at the finish. Really, really good.
Sledutah (12313) reviewed Hop Lava from Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500ml bottle picked up at PDX airport gift shop
Pours cloudy orange with a big frothy off-white head and lots of sticky lacing. Aroma is full of grapefruit, lemon zest, floral and piney. Flavors are floral, grapefruit, mild bready and pine resin, pepper, dry
Wow, I’m blown away at how good this is. Well balanced and easy drinking.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Pours hazy amber, small white head, some lacing. Aroma is caramel and pine. Aged. Flavor is the same, light sweet, medium bitter. This is old, but no date on it, so fuck them.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
On cask at Belmont. I’m a sucker for casks. Pours a hazy copper color with a medium white head. The aroma is light Pils malt and big oranges. The flavor certainly shines with fruity citrus hops, some base Munich shows along with lingering medium bitterness. Quite good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep amber,lasting beige head.Light sweet malt nose.Big bodied malt palate,light alcohol heat with a lasting medium strength hop finish Previously :Usually this brewery makes decent stuff, but this is very poor. Sulphury nose and unblended palate indicate this is likely a very old bottle....
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
50cl bottle pours with a nearly clear copper body that has golden hues and supports a nice looking light tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up bread dough, crackers, lime, an earthy lemon grass sort of note and sweet malts. The aroma has the hops taking a back seat to the maltiness. The taste delivers sweet mango flavored cotton candy and sweet lime hard candy sliding into doughy biscuit like malts. The hops get more resiny to midway and into the finish where the malts turn in the direction of graininess. Pretty interesting somewhat malty take on the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
500 ml bottle. Pours a slightly hazy amber with full fluffy head. Aromas of grapefruit, grass, and toasted malts. Flavors of bitter grapefruit, toast, and malts. Good carbonation though quite smooth. Nice.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Hop Lava from Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - Spicy pine and resinous hops. Clear copper with a huge head. Nice floral and light hop profile, well balanced with malts. Although not what I would consider a hop bomb, it is a very drinkable IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours with a clear golden hued body with a large and retentive foamy white head. Great lace. Aromas are fresh with grapefruit zest, pine, tangerine and resin. Really nice although somewhat distracting bready and toasty malt character that feels like it would be more at home in a cleaner and slightly less hoppy lager. Low fruity esters. Flavors are bitter with a robust grainy malty and toasty character. Lots of pils and Vienna or Munich like character. Seems quite fresh, and while pleasant, it doesn’t have a massive hop flavor. Mild citrus, tea and light resin. Distinctly bitter balance (and not the cleanest bitterness ever). Lively carbonation with a bitter and dry finish with a medium body. Not the typical type of IPA I like (this has a noticeable malt structure, high bitterness and relatively low hop flavor), but I do enjoy drinking it for some reason.