Double IPA
Hope Brewery in Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.93
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A Big, bold Double IPA with big flavours of citrus, pine, resin and tropical fruits. The dry American style IPA base beer with its very light malt characters is brewed to showcase its Galaxy, Citra, and Centennial hops.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Can) Pours slightly hazy golden with good white head. Pleasant aroma of tropical fruit, caramel, bread. Good taste. Medium bodied, smooth with bright carbonation. Taste has a bit going on. There’s a base of caramel malt giving some sweet hints in the mid palate. There’s a big citrus start with bitter orange and some tropical fruit. And there’s plenty of hoppy bitterness building through the palate. Very enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2025
at 13:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours amber with a small sudsy head.Nose shows pine, resinous hops, tangerine, and heavy malt.Flavours include more syrupy malt, piny hops, and a slight Brettanomyces note.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2024
at 09:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Aromas of mango, passionfruit and pine, with the addition of some malt biscuit when tasted. Probably misjudged by having such a meaty brew after a big meal when I needed a light cleanser but it's clearly a polished beer. I would give this another go before finalising my rating.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2023
at 11:20
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Just hazy gold with a white head that's soon a coat. Aroma is a little restrained but fine with pink grapefruit, makrut lime, bread, pasionfruit, subtle pine. A sip is rather less subtle: yes all the above, but resin and alcohol build towards a... fairly robust finish. The lack of real malt presence means it's a bit hot and rasping at the end for me.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2018
at 15:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 375ml can on 14/12/2016. Pours a hazy golden with bugger all head. The aroma features some light citrus fruit, biscuit and toast. Flavour wise, there’s bready and biscuity malt, and lots of sweet citrus and stone fruit (orange, apricot, peach). The hops are pretty big and quite resiny, and compliment the sweetness quite nicely. The texture is a touch syrupy and the carbonation quite soft. It presents as a big beer but is still easy enough to drink. An enjoyable DIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Dec 2016
at 04:04