Hypernova
Ecliptic Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.41
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Triple IPA
Like its cataclysmic namesake, Hypernova Triple IPA explodes with juicy tropical fruit flavor. Bursting with notes of guava, passion fruit, and citrus, this 9.3% ABV IPA is of stellar proportions.
Originally made for the Portland International Beerfest (2015).
2015 ABV: 12%
Like its cataclysmic namesake, Hypernova Triple IPA explodes with juicy tropical fruit flavor. Bursting with notes of guava, passion fruit, and citrus, this 9.3% ABV IPA is of stellar proportions.
Originally made for the Portland International Beerfest (2015).
2015 ABV: 12%
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7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
355mL can. Pours hazy golden blonde with a white head. Juicy mango, candied oranges, and sweet malts on the nose. Flavour has more juicy tropical fruit, mostly mango with some other stone fruits and oranges. Malts are quite sweet, heavy but not cloying. A touch boozy on the finish. Nice balance between the malts and hops, though more bitterness to balance out all of the sweet flavours would be even better. As it warms up a bit I'm the hops are coming across a bit stale, might be an old can.
Tried
from Can
from
Elizabeth Station
on 06 May 2026
at 22:21
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imperial pint can. Bright guava aroma with notes of passion fruit, grapefruit, mango, tangerine and orange. Pours clear golden colored with a large white head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with juicy guava, passion fruit and mango flavors. Finishes smooth but a touch dry with grapefruit, tangerine and orange flavors. Excellent TIPA.
Tried
from Can
from
Bubbles Liquor World
on 23 Mar 2025
at 22:59
9/10
Thick and hop thick and delish. I like. Huge flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2018
at 22:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Taster at brewery. Medium/dark golden, small ring if head, curtains of lacing. Aroma is malty, taste too seems to favor the malts, but a strong hop undercurrent is there, bitterness and ABV coming in late. Dangerously smooth and inconspicuous. 12%, really?
Tried
on 14 Apr 2018
at 22:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
650 ml bottle. Pours amber with light head. Aromas of caramel, dough malts, and mashed fruit. Flavors follow same with light citrus and a bit of tea (stale hops). A nice enough malt bomb though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2017
at 17:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650ml bottle at Brian’s office. 2017 edition. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is malty, candied oranges. Same taste. Slightly hot (as it is 12%, hehe). Sweet and hoppy bitter aftertaste. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2017
at 21:11
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy light tan. Thin head, touch of bubbles. The aroma is a bit on the woody side in terms of hops that are a touch stale. The malts are sweet, smelling chewy, and there’s definitely some alcohol. Lots of alcohol on this one...quite boozy...lots of sweet malts, and a massive bitterness. It’s not super bright, and seems a bit strong for me, in terms of being a bit unbalanced.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2017
at 21:07
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep copper with a white head. Powerful caramel malt with a large dose of hops underneath. Very sweet. Any hop notes are dumbed down by the malt. Full bodied sugar bomb.
Tried
on 04 Apr 2017
at 22:37
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear gasoline gold with a medium-sized off-white head that dissipates quickly. Aroma of pine resin and honey. The flavor is sweet with a brief appearance of hop bitterness before it fades into a sweet finish. Approaching cloying. The first sip had a bit of alcohol and an accompanying warming. Too sweet for my tastes as an IIPA and not quite a good complex BW.
Tried
on 16 May 2016
at 17:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head. A big sweet resin hop nose. The flavor is big sweet fruity hops, huge resin, oranges, sticky sweet. Very drinkable. This is a lovely big ipa.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2016
at 01:02