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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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a lovely hazy orange with a sudsy/frothy white head and huge hoppy aromas. Pine, citrus, tropical fruit and soap... all there in the nose. Flavor is even better. An explosion of hops... starts out with a quick blast of grapefruit, then pine, then tropical fruit and then a grapefruit bitterness to the finish. All of this is supported by a honey and caramel malt backbone with a sticky and oily mouthfeel. ABV leaves a bit of a burn as it goes down and a smile on the face when it doesn’t get too overpowering. Great stuff... keep it up, Fred!
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2010
at 18:09