Head Hunter
Fat Head's Brewery in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.58
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World Beer Cup Gold Award Winner
Head Hunter is an award-winning, aggressively dry-hopped, West Coast-Style IPA with a huge hop display of pine, grapefruit, citrus, and pineapple. A punch-you-in-the-mouth brew for those who truly love their hops!
Head Hunter is an award-winning, aggressively dry-hopped, West Coast-Style IPA with a huge hop display of pine, grapefruit, citrus, and pineapple. A punch-you-in-the-mouth brew for those who truly love their hops!
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8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cool brew courtesy of Homer321. The 12oz bottle pours with an opaque coppery body that has golden hues and supports a near white head of foam that leaves behind spotty lacing. The aroma has rich pine and citrus hop goodness, a resiny grassy note and a bit of malts in the background. The taste is just as rich as the nose led onto with malt sweetened grapefruit and tangelo and then rolling toward a firm degree of resiny pine like hop bitterness that takes over the flavor with a modest base of sweet malts and light booziness. Wow, this is loaded with hops that are heavy on the bitter resiny side. There are plenty of IIPA that are less hopped than this IPA. Love the hop hazed appearance, it makes me happy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2013
at 18:40
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz. bottle courtesy of queenholly. I got to say, I didn’t see this brew coming. The aroma will smack you with biter tangerines, grapefruit pith, pine resin and some flower hops. This is dank! Huge resin, whole hop cones, huge Simcoe and Cascade influence. Lingering resinous hop bitterness in the finish. Dry texture with a medium body. This drinks like a DIPA. Remarkable brew and I sampled this from a bottle! This has won medals for a reason.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2013
at 19:50
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Hops and Pie. Denver. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is hoppy and a little metallic. The flavour is medium to strong bitter with a big hoppy liqourice bitter palate. A standard IPA but a very good one!
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Oct 2013
at 08:09
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Hops n Pie, Denver. Pours hazy orange with an off white head. Aroma of grapefruit, pine, citrus. Flavour is light moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Oct 2013
at 20:09
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
14th April 2013
Hazy amber beer with a good pale cream coloured head. Palate is light and airy and dry. Hops are light but flavoursome - light fresh orange and marmalade. Skewing this beer is a weird dry dirty malt with some rawness. Dry finish. Not bad but the malt is a mess.
Hazy amber beer with a good pale cream coloured head. Palate is light and airy and dry. Hops are light but flavoursome - light fresh orange and marmalade. Skewing this beer is a weird dry dirty malt with some rawness. Dry finish. Not bad but the malt is a mess.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2013
at 14:11
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Location: 12 oz bottle with jcos, 10/6/13
Aroma: This has a nice hop mix of grapefruit, pine, resin, and some malts as well
Appearance: It pours a cloudy golden color with a small white head and some light lace
Flavor: The taste is lightly sweet, but leans much more toward the hoppy and fairly bitter side
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a slick feel, average carbonation, and a long, dry finish
Overall Impression: I found this one to be quite nice. It is fairly bitter, and the bitterness works nicely on the style. Tasty, clean, and bitter, it is what an IPA should be.
Aroma: This has a nice hop mix of grapefruit, pine, resin, and some malts as well
Appearance: It pours a cloudy golden color with a small white head and some light lace
Flavor: The taste is lightly sweet, but leans much more toward the hoppy and fairly bitter side
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a slick feel, average carbonation, and a long, dry finish
Overall Impression: I found this one to be quite nice. It is fairly bitter, and the bitterness works nicely on the style. Tasty, clean, and bitter, it is what an IPA should be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2013
at 20:11
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Fat Heads Head Hunter IPA: Bottle courtesy of JStax - thanks! A massive pillow of sandy head atop a translucent golden body… very nice appearance. Not much lacing, but good retention. Nose is ripe with citrus and pine. Sweet tropical fruits. The taste is pure hops and the bitterness that comes with a copious amount. Pine resin, florals, and moderate citrus. Light malts in the tail attempt to keep the bitterness in check. Lingering hops… the sticky lip smacking kind. Gets a little more herbal and tea-like in the tail as it warms; helps with the drinkability. Really a hophead’s beer; I can taste the IBUs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2013
at 04:46
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Brown bottle, 12 ounces, gift from Philippe Boutin (merci!), savoured on September 23 2013; eye: caramel with an orangey hue, hazy, no effervescence, tiny sheet of tan head, light lacing; nose: resinous hops, pine, tangerine, slight malt; mouth: resinous hops, pine, tangerine, malt, astringency, dry finale in pine, full body, average carbonation, quite bitter, lightly sweet, lightly harsh texture; overall: quite fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 12 onces, cadeau de Philippe Boutin, savourée le 23 septembre 2013; œil : caramel avec une teinte orangée, voilée, pas d’effervescence, petite couverture de mousse fauve, légère dentelle; nez : houblon résineux, pin, tangerine, très léger malt; bouche : houblon résineux, pin, tangerine, malt, astringence, finale sèche en pin, corsé, carbonatation moyenne, pas mal amère, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement rugueuse; en résumé : très bon
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2013
at 14:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle: Poured a bright clear orangey color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some a good lacing. Aroma consists of fruity ester with some citrus hoppy notes and light sweet malt notes. Taste is also dominated by citrusy hops with fresh sweet fruity notes and some lightly sweet malt notes with limited level of bitterness. Body is about average with good carbonation. Definitely above standard IPA from those guys.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2013
at 12:38
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Light amber body. Off-white head. Aroma of leafy hops, earth, pine, resin. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/velvety texture, lively carbonation. Nice balance between malts and hops, but lots of resin and pine atop caramel and raw grain. Losing my enthusiasm for the taste of resin bombs. Great aroma.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jul 2013
at 18:38