Hop Stoopid
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.61
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"Clean this mess up or else we'll all end up in jail...those test tubes and the scale...just get 'em all outta here..." He was referring to the complex super-critical-CO2 hop extraction equipment set up on the table in the lab across from the brewhouse. Hop extracts are for the BIG brewers, he thought - suitable only for crummy sub-standard and barely-passable industrial lagers, not the subtle and elegant craft beer made here. But wrong he was. The New Brewer does not eschew any possible inputs. In this case the mountain of extracts will replace the mountain of hop vegetative material in the kettle thus creating cleaner hop flavors and preventing the otherwise spinach-like mess of a kettle full of super-hopped wort from clogging up a pump or worse. The sensuous honey-like amber ooze was administered intravenously to the wort kettle and the sacrament was complete. Another kettle of Hop Stoopid is once again raised up and fermented on high
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at Brewdog Camden. Slightly cloudy amber colour with a beige/gold head of small bubbles. Aroma is hoppy and bitter, bit of garlic and a bit of funkiness. Maybe sour cream and onion? Very strange but nice. Taste is very crisp, bit yeasty, initially a burst of bitterness and then a mellow malty finish. Bit of booziness and spikiness. Very nice.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2019
at 17:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at Lagunitas TapKabinet, Amsterdam. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of orange, caramel malt, citrus and light grassy notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jan 2019
at 16:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Golden with a white head - Good fruity hop aroma - Malt body with a good fruity hop flavour that has a good bitterness - The malt and fruity hops that gives bitterness goes into the finish - This was good and tasty
Tried
on 17 Sep 2018
at 20:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
355ml bottle [as 'Hop Stoopid Ale']. Barely clear, orangey dark golden to amber colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Floral, grassy and resinous, slightly citrusy, hoppy aroma, caramel malty basis. Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty and floral hoppy, slightly grassy and citrusy with accumulating hop bitterness, a touch of peppermint and toffee; lingering citrusy and floral hoppy finish. Oily texture, smooth, soft and silky palate, gentle carbonation. Very harmonious, superbly balanced, well integrated hop bitterness with accumulating effect though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2018
at 19:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Strong hop aroma that is apparent from the moment the bottle was opened. Pours a clear amber with a head that soon fizzles out. Tastes like an IPA, specifically like one of Sierra Nevada’s heavier IPAs. Elements of pine and citrus are on the back of the tongue. Absolutely wild amount of hops dominate every part of this beer. Far more drinkable than I had anticipated. Easily the hoppiest beer I have ever had.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2018
at 03:00
7/10
Tried
on 09 Mar 2018
at 22:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at Bishops Arms Östersund. A beer of epic proportions. Fresh tasting, fruity hops. Moorish bitterness. Alcohol week hidden. Close to perfection. Retried. This time it came across as much much more bitter and much more butch. 4.2 to 3.8
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Feb 2018
at 02:47
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2017
at 00:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Tap at Rattle N Hum, New York, 20th November 17. Pours clear, amber. Aroma is malt, bitter citrus. Taste is malt, sweet and then bitter, booze, unusual after taste. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Nov 2017
at 16:57