Hoopla Pale Ale
Boulder Beer Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.26
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Magic happened this year in Boulder, CO, when local music and local beer came together. In search of the perfectly drinkable, yet flavorful, festival beer, the Boulder Beer brewers and avid homebrewer Kyle Hollingsworth, Keyboardist of the String Cheese Incident, joined creative forces. Imagination and improvisation flowed freely, and Hoopla was born.
Hoopla Pale Ale is dry-hopped with generous amounts of Glacier hops for a fruity, floral hop aroma and flavor that will have your taste buds dancing! Its lively hop character is wonderfully balanced with a crisp, clean finish from the unique blend of US and German grains, making Hoopla the perfect companion to festival season.
“We wanted to make a beer that was hoppy, but still appetizing to non-hop-drinkers and drinkable on hot days at summertime festivals,” Kyle explains about the recipe.
Hoopla Pale Ale is dry-hopped with generous amounts of Glacier hops for a fruity, floral hop aroma and flavor that will have your taste buds dancing! Its lively hop character is wonderfully balanced with a crisp, clean finish from the unique blend of US and German grains, making Hoopla the perfect companion to festival season.
“We wanted to make a beer that was hoppy, but still appetizing to non-hop-drinkers and drinkable on hot days at summertime festivals,” Kyle explains about the recipe.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Early rating from Beer Buddy app
Tried
on 13 Nov 2021
at 04:05
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Draft. A- Floral, pines, spices, citrus. A- Copper color, hazy liquid, white head. T- Very bitter, mild sweetness, hoppy. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, bitter finish. O- They said they wanted to make this appetizing to non-hop drinkers but they didn’t manage to succeed. Overly hoppy.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2013
at 11:45
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft sampled at The Buffalo, Idaho Springs. Pours clear amber with an off white head. Aroma of pine, citrus, some licorice. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Oct 2013
at 12:27
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Tap at The Buffalo, Idaho Springs, CO. Poured a clear medium amber with a frothy white head and loads of lace. The aroma is weak malt. The flavour is medium bitter with a rather strange and unusual liqourice bitter hop palate with a long lasting bitter finish. An easy drinking pale ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Oct 2013
at 12:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Looks better than it smells and tastes better too. Reddish pour with thick white head. Faint floral hop aroma. Full flavoured, it walks into your tongue and demands attention. Very long bitter finish
Tried
on 06 Jul 2013
at 15:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On draft at Sickies Garage in Fargo. Nitro pour. Pours clear amber with a silky off white head. Fruity hop aroma. Flavors of citrus. Crisp bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jun 2013
at 11:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap. Pours hazy orange amber with a medium white head that dissipates slowly with nice lacing. Aroma is floral, pine, caramel, bread. Flavor is about the same, lightly sweet, lightly bitter. Crisp finish. Not bad, but a bit too floral perhaps.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jan 2013
at 17:00
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
tap at Dash In - Pours hazy gold with a citrus hop aroma. The flavor has moderate hops bitterness and light malt sweetness. It’s alright but I wasn’t impressed but the malt character in this light bodied brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2012
at 12:22
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
A canned version, it’s very cool looking. Speaking of looking, I don’t thin I find a date canned/best by date on it unless this is it: 2 08 09 etc..
It pours very nicely, a clearish deep gold with a 2 finger head of fluffy foam that is a slow shrinker. Good lacing ensues.
Taking a few whiffs, I get some floral hops that are nice but that seems to be all I get.
The taste is kind of bitter, bitter in not such a good way. Is there such a thing as burnt hops? Bitter gone wrong, imho. There’s no saving grace of a malt backbone or, at least, not much of one that I can attest to.
I’m not enjoying this very much and I have 5 more cans to deal with. There’s some slight notes of grapefruit that I can taste now but that isn’t going to save how I feel about this brew. This one is screaming for some balance and the screams go unheard.
It pours very nicely, a clearish deep gold with a 2 finger head of fluffy foam that is a slow shrinker. Good lacing ensues.
Taking a few whiffs, I get some floral hops that are nice but that seems to be all I get.
The taste is kind of bitter, bitter in not such a good way. Is there such a thing as burnt hops? Bitter gone wrong, imho. There’s no saving grace of a malt backbone or, at least, not much of one that I can attest to.
I’m not enjoying this very much and I have 5 more cans to deal with. There’s some slight notes of grapefruit that I can taste now but that isn’t going to save how I feel about this brew. This one is screaming for some balance and the screams go unheard.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Oct 2012
at 13:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at the brewery in Boulder, on October 15, 2012Clear golden to amber color, white head. Hoppy, citrus, mineral, fruity taste. Sweet, hoppy, perfume aftertaste. Medium to spritzy mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Mineral tingle with co2 on the tongue. Sweet, malty, fruity scent.
Tried
on 17 Oct 2012
at 03:48