Hop Dam Triple IPA
Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Spring|
Score
7.60
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Hop Dam has been a long time in the works, and its design required us to build a large stainless steel hop dam for our kettle, just for this beer! It was worth all the effort, because this beer is extremely hoppy and very satisfying, using 50% more hops than our Mean Manalishi Double IPA, which was voted Best Double IPA In The World by the US Beer Tasting Championships. Hop Dam is 10% alcohol by volume, and really hoppy, with a bitterness level that is very high but refined and therefore refreshing – its like kissing a hop!! Along with all the standard hop additions, it is also mash-hopped, first-kettle-hopped, and dry-hopped!!! Hop Dam is a 100% American-style IPA, dominated by the top-rated, assertive and refined Amarillo hops, along with lots of aroma and flavor from Columbus, and Cascade, and the wonderful Summit hops – the very special dwarf hop plant picked by hand, and sought-after for its great flavor and aroma. These hops work great together, and make Hop Dam TRIPLE IPA our new standard for hoppy beers!! It will be available for only a few months, so get Hop Dam while it lasts!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
66cl Bottle at WWT. Clear amber orange colour, white head. Aroma of spruce, caramel, loads of hops. Flavour is bitter, spruce, some caramel, light malty, pine, very hoppy bitter finish. Medium-bodied. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2012
at 04:03
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @ WWT 1. Lightly hazy red color, small off-white head. Smell malts, hops, pine, spruce. Taste malts, hops, bitter, slightly fruity hints. Medium carbo, medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2012
at 17:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle from Bierkompass
Pours clear copper orange with a smooth foamy head. Aroma of fruits, lemon, malts and a massive amount of grassy and citrusy hops. Taste is malty and slightly sweet with a lot of exotic fruits, grassy hops and bitterness. Finish is hoppy and bitter with tingling notes, a lot of fruits and hints of berries. Alcohol is quite well hidden. Nice, tasty and surprisingly well balanced extreme-IIPA.
Pours clear copper orange with a smooth foamy head. Aroma of fruits, lemon, malts and a massive amount of grassy and citrusy hops. Taste is malty and slightly sweet with a lot of exotic fruits, grassy hops and bitterness. Finish is hoppy and bitter with tingling notes, a lot of fruits and hints of berries. Alcohol is quite well hidden. Nice, tasty and surprisingly well balanced extreme-IIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2012
at 09:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
65 cl bottle @ home, no BBE info
Aroma is hoppy with some exotic fruits, resin and hints of fruits. Flavour is really hoppy and somewhat sweet with exotic fruits, peaches, some gooseberry bush, hints of alcohol and biscuits. Gets stronger towards the end of glass. A bit glue in the aftertaste. The brutal attack of hops is nice though.
Aroma is hoppy with some exotic fruits, resin and hints of fruits. Flavour is really hoppy and somewhat sweet with exotic fruits, peaches, some gooseberry bush, hints of alcohol and biscuits. Gets stronger towards the end of glass. A bit glue in the aftertaste. The brutal attack of hops is nice though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2012
at 07:25
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared. Pours hazy golden amber with a white head. Aroma is grass, grapefruit and pine. Flavour is very bitter, light sweet. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2012
at 13:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
75cl bottle at an ipa tasting. Thin white head. Hazy amber pour. Lovely smooth grapefruit bitterness. Nice brew
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2012
at 13:47
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home ... thin white head ... soft floral ... bitter fruit ... zezty soapy pine hop nose ... little over fizzy ... huge pine hop ... quite bitter ... a little of the toffee malt i dont like... huge oilyness... i mean huge oilyness... little too bitter for me
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2012
at 14:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled @ HaandBryggeriet Beer festival 2012. Slightly hazy orange golden body with an off-white head. Strong citric fruity aroma with caramel. Flavor is sweet caramel malt, fruity and quite bitter. Fine body and a bitter aftertaste. Nice.
Tried
on 07 Jun 2012
at 13:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 oz. bottle, sent from dfhhead25 (thanks Gib!), pours a hazy orange amber with a small white head. Aroma is very pungent of skunky, herbal hops, bitter orange and grapefruit rind - can't help but draw the association to marijuana on the nose. Flavour is intensely bitter, with loads of herbally, marijuana-like hops, very bitter orange and grapefruit rind, with a big malt backbone, though not cutting into the extreme hoppy bitterness that destroys the palate. Very intense and uncompromising - very enjoyable on occasion, though this isn't a "pleasant", "nice" beer by any means.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2012
at 20:18
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Skjold Burne. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are pleasant and richly bitter hops, caramel, malt, pine and flowers. Long bitter finish and very hop dominant. Lovely for a hop head like me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2012
at 11:24