Hoptimus Prime
Ruckus Brewing Company in New York City, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.96
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Brewed for Union Jacks. Formerly Legacy Hoptimus Prime. Aggressively formulated with five different hop varieties, Hoptimus Prime is then dry hopped for two weeks, ensuring a MASSIVE hop flavor and aroma. Perfectly balanced with three types of malt, Hoptimus Prime is truly the pinnacle of hop flavor.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Orangey-amber colour with a fairly thick head. Orangey-woody hop aroma with some biscuity malt in the background. Rounded bitterness is woody and dry, with a splash of tropical fruit brightness. This is tempered by mellow, biscuity malts. The finish is dry, appetizing, with a hint of sweetness demanding more. Nicely balanced example.
Tried
on 23 May 2009
at 15:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A dark amber ale with a thick light moka head. A earthy hoppy imperial IPA, with good caramel malt, muskey and pleasant. In mouth, a decent hoppy ale with grapefruit, but overall, a bit simple and thin, veering on astringent. Shared with Probstk, April 2 2009.
Tried
on 10 May 2009
at 22:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Wine Specialist. Dark orange copper color with a huge off-white head. Strong aromas of mildly roasted malt and floral/citrus. Medium plus body with roasty malt backing. This must be fresh. Lush hop. Floral with a touch of citrus. Lots of hop. Finishes floral, malty, but nearly dry. Bitter curls around the edges of the tongue, but softly. Just excellent. Can’t even sense the alcohol. Erased by hop burn!
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2009
at 20:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Immy, Thanks! Pours a clear copper with a nice sized fluffy beige head. Aroma is sweet and citrus filled. Nice hop bitterness, lots of grapefruit and florals in the flavor. Just a little malty presence. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2008
at 11:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On Tap at the Belgian Café, Philadelphia18-11-08. Pours light golden with a slim white head. Crisp, clean, oily hops that are quite full on start things off. There is a grassy and honeyness to this beer which deliver the bitterness on a little blanket of sweetness, though the bitterness does eventually win out and wins on points. The tongue and roof of the mouth are left a with a furry bitter coating. A6 A4 F7 P4 OV14 3.5
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Dec 2008
at 03:14
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Beer tasted at mcbackus tasting. Pours deep gold to orange with thin off white head. The aroma has pretty full citrus grapefruit and orange citrus hops. The taste is up front citrus hop bitterness and milder late addition hop flavor with orange and even semi sweet grapefruit. Deep in the back is mild sweet maltiness. It ends with increasing citrus hop bitterness including a tangy tangelo note. Solid brew but only an average IIPA really.
Tried
on 27 Oct 2008
at 22:50
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Deep hazy amber coloured body with an orange glow and a thin off-white head. Aroma of fresh hops, grapefruit, oranges, grass, alcohol and a nice bit of raisins. Full-bodied; Strong assertive hopiness with a lot of malt and alcohol following soon behind. Sweetness finishes up the beer with a little bitterness, but mostly a short hoppy flavour with malt. Overall, a good beer, but not an amazing Double IPA. Still good to try if you like the style and perhaps too much malt and sweetness if you don’t like the style. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Clarendon (Arlington), Virginia on 16-September-2008, sampled on 04-October-2008.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2008
at 01:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Beer Run. Pours a clear orange-amber with a medium head. Decent retention and lacing. Aroma is citrus and floral hops with a sweetness in the background. The taste is hop forward, with only a mild malt backbone, but one that is sweet and sufficient. The hop profile is very complex, ranging from pine to resin to citrus to pine and back to citrus. Medium body. Alcohol is well hidden.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2008
at 00:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
22oz bomber bottle. Amber-tan color, looks relatively transparent/potentially filtered. Very dry and piny taste. Citrus and alcohol notes as well. Bitter and crisp. Lots of fresh IPA character as compared with others IIPAs that walk awfully close to the Barleywine line. Mellows and becomes smoother and creamier by mid-glass. Excellent beer, a treat for the locals I’m sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2008
at 22:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
22oz bottle-pours an off white head and gold/amber color. Aroma is resin/pine hops, with some sharpness and slickness of an I2PA, some medium malt. Taste is raw/bitter-resin/pine hops (nugget, cascade?) with some tea leaf/tannins?, with some sharpness and slickness of an I2PA, some medium malt. Right on style for an I2PA, which is a bit big for me. Occasional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2008
at 16:40