Leafer Madness Imperial Pale Ale Hop Harvest Edition
Beer Valley Brewing Company in Ontario, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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Hop Harvest Edition was brewed in September of 2008 using 200 lbs of fresh Treasure Valley Chinook hop flowers from the John Wilmunster hop farm in Greenleaf, ID. A huge, fresh grapefruit profile complements the malty sweetness of this 9%, 100+ IBU fresh hop beer. Leafer Madness Imperial Pale Ale - 2008 Hop Harvest Edition has a green bottle cap and is hand stamped with "2008 Hop Harvest Edition" on the right side of the label.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at Bitter Creek. Another stellar looking beer. Curtains of lacing. Gentle hoppy aroma. Taste is also gentle, but sublime. Fresh hops gives this one a nudge in the right direction. Not overly bitter, but a textbook example of the style.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Sep 2016
at 15:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Bine & Vine. Hopefully a 2012 version. Pours very hazy orange/amber with a creamy white head. Seems to be grapefruit aroma. Med + body. It’s almost chewy. Sort of laidback grapefruit flavor. Lots of hop, finishing bitter. Not at all harsh.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2012
at 16:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bomber shared with Brenn79, thanks. Aroma is citrusy. Pours a cloudy cantaloupe hue with a decent head. Taste is lightly sweet and turns bitter mid-palate and remains fairly bitter through the long finish. It’s okay, but nothing to write home about.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2012
at 11:01
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle given to me by my friend Bruce, thanks for the opportunity. Pours a hazy golden color with a huge fluffy white head that displays mad retention and lace. The aroma drips with hop juice, pine resin citrus they are all here. Faint malty background of bread and caramel barely pokes through. The flavor gives off more malt than I would have thought from the aroma. The hops are still here in full force but there is more bready malt than I expected. Medium body and carbonation level, sweet resinous sticky mouthfeel. Really good fresh hop ale to bad its brewed so far away and not easily obtainable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2011
at 15:34
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 oz. bottle, pours murky orange brown. Aroma of herbal notes / marijuana, caramel malt, and hops. Flavour begins with a full herbal body, with a full bitter hop blast at the end. Most excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2010
at 21:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle bought @ Brewforia - 2009 Fresh Hop Edition
Appearance: Hazy copper/amber color with a huge frothy white head that looks like an ice cream float, tons of lacing in the glass
Aroma: Pine, grapefruit, sweet malts
Taste: Pine, citrus, sweet malts, leaves a lingering bitterness in the finish
A decent IPA, tons of hop aroma and flavor.
Appearance: Hazy copper/amber color with a huge frothy white head that looks like an ice cream float, tons of lacing in the glass
Aroma: Pine, grapefruit, sweet malts
Taste: Pine, citrus, sweet malts, leaves a lingering bitterness in the finish
A decent IPA, tons of hop aroma and flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2010
at 15:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
2009 bottle thanks to BuckDich! Pours a murky light amber with a tall frothy off white head. Soapy hop aroma full of citrus peel and some pepper. Grapefruit comes forward as it warms. Wow, strong hop bitterness, sits right on top of a sweet carmel malt body. There is alot of pine and thick tasting hop notes of grapefruit and herbs. Ends dry, very nice contrast of sweet and bitter. I’m a fan, I’d love to try the original to compare what the fresh hops add.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2009
at 17:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22oz bottle @Tampa Wkly Gathering shared by Ibrew2or3–pours a thin off white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is mild herbal hops, some medium malt. Taste is nice herbal/resin hops, secondary medium malt-caramel. Smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2009
at 09:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber courtesy of a trade with ditmier. I thought for a moment I got two Leafer Madness bombers (not a bad thing at all, really). Then I noticed the faint green stamp indicating this is the Hop Harvest version. Pours just like the regular version with hazy deep gold body and thin off white head. The aroma is similar as the regular version except it seems both smoother and a little milder in strength. It does emit more notes of grassy hops to go along with sweet malts in the background. The taste is heavier in grassy hop notes with tangelo, pine and pure resin bitterness bringing about a well rounded west coast hop profile. It seems to have smoother hops than the regular version. I was expecting it to be a little rougher if anything. It ends with some malt sweetness and tangelo hop flavor leading into lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2009
at 22:52
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
courtesy of ibrew2or3. Bottle with green cap. Pours amber, white head. Compared to the previous version, this one had a significant extra bitterness and hops to it. Aroma of fruity hops and citrus/herbal with a less emphasis on the malts. Taste, light bitter hops with slight notes of caramel malts. Definite extra hoppiness in this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2009
at 10:02