Hopperpaw
Upland Brewing Company in Bloomington, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
7.34
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Basis aged on persimmons, paw paws, and Mosaic hops. Our brewers are relentlessly trying to find ways to make new and interesting combinations of flavors so they took two of their favorites, Persimmon and Pawpaw and found that these fruits provide an excellent amount of extraction on a 2nd use. They aged Persimmon and Pawpaw on Basis and then dry hopped with Mosaic hops to complement the tropical notes from the fruits creating a wonderfully tropical and balanced sour ale. Hopperpaw pours with a rich golden straw appearance with slight haze. Aromas of banana, citrus, papaya, mango are accompanied by tart and floral notes. Flavors of tangy banana and tropical fruits with slight sweetness envelope the palate. Mouthfeel is dry with mild custard notes in the finish.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
2018 bottling Small disappearing whitish rim over clear orangey golden beer. Cookies and baked fruit, apricot/peach filling or persimmon. Paw paw doesn't get into Belgium. Very sour, lactic acid² and some fruitacids. Persimmon is very credible, peach, apricot, mango, quite fruity character. In the very background, again this baked cakerind. Acidburn and -thinning. Feels better carbonated than it looks. OK. American style sour, just don't think it's real lambic.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Billie’s Bottle Shop
on 21 Dec 2024
at 10:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at tasting. Aroma of orange, passion fruit, pineapple, grain, tart, acidic sourness and flowers. Taste has dry acidic sourness, tart, orange, passion fruit zest, old hops, citrus, apricot and subtle fruity hops. Very nice, like the zesty tropical fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2020
at 16:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Refrigerated 75 cL brown bottle, bottled April 18, 2018 from shrubber85 poured into a tulip. Aroma is paw paw, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is rich tart paw paw and some hops. Really nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2019
at 01:21
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft. Orange, banana (paw paw), persimmon, biscuit malt, and light hay aroma - very fruity. Cloudy pale yellow with small head. Moderately sweet persimmon, paw paw, orange, biscuit malt, moderately sour lactic acid, and mildly bitter grass flavor. Finishes with a sour vinegar flavor. Good body. Delicious - spectacular fruit flavor with a nice mixture of sourness. Loved this one - hopefully they will make this again someday.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 May 2017
at 19:32