Highland Brewing Company Little Hump

Little Hump

 

Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Session Spring
Score
6.60
ABV: 4.5% IBU: 32 Ticks: 16
This American Pale Ale is a refreshing session beer meticulously handcrafted with a unique Highland twist. Brewed with grains from America’s heartland, using Simcoe hops for bittering and dry hopped with Amarillo and Cascade for aromatics, this beer finishes crisp and clean. It is a plate pleasing seasonal experience.
 

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4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle. This was not as good as I thought it would be. Aroma was grapefruit with a tad of the peel thrown in. The taste was hoppy but not in a pleasant way. Gold color, not much head.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 05:09


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

From bottle to a tulip. Filled 03/11/2015. A: Pours a rich gold with an inch of craggy eggshell foam. A slight haze but maybe from chill. Average carbonation and very good head retention. Nice lacing also. S: Pronounced citrus aroma. Lemon/orange more than the expected grapefruit. No malt scent that I can discern but the beer is very cold. T: Taste is a sort of hollow lemon and toasted sourdough. Seems watery. Potential is there but disappointing actually. I know low ABV is an objective here, but this needs more malt body. A slight vegetal note becomes evident as it warms. Doesn’t help. M: Very light in body as expected with more carbonation than shows in appearance. Average. O: As much as I wanted to love this, I honestly can’t find much to recommend. This Ale looks good and smells delicious but the taste fails to live up to expectations.

Tried from Bottle on 10 May 2015 at 17:21


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Light orange-caramel malt and orange peel aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head. Lightly sweet orange malt and mildly bitter citrus peel flavor. Okay but pretty mundane.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2014 at 18:32


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Floral, peachy and slightly grapefruity hop with a touch of pale malt. Fairly bitter character, light pale and biscuity malt character. Lingering hop finish with a moreish touch of crackery malt. Pretty nice.

Tried on 25 May 2014 at 10:27


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 2

On tap at trio at kill devil hills it is a dark golden color with a lot of effervescence and a white head. The aroma is citrus the taste is a thin citrus flavor that resonated metallic on ghd pakate

Tried from Draft on 02 May 2014 at 10:12


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

On draft at Trio in Kill Devil Hills NC. Pours a clear gold with a thick white head. Light hoppy nose. Flavors of mandarin orange. Slight bitter finish.

Tried from Draft on 02 May 2014 at 09:54


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Clear pale amber color with a medium white head that dissipates quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, hops and malt. Light-bodied with a mildly bitter citrusy hops character and notes of toasted malt and pine. The finish is crisp with a cedar wood and hops aftertaste. Decent overall.

Tried on 05 Oct 2012 at 19:49


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

12 ounce bottle from Lowes Foods in Hickory, NC. Pours a clear golden color with a medium sized frothy offwhite head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of green, earthy and peppery hop notes with some pale malts. The taste is very much the same, though a little bit fainter on the malts. Thin-medium bodied. Decent beer.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2011 at 21:52


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12oz bottle pours clear deep gold with white head. The aroma is sweet sugary malts mixing with citrus hops and spicy hops. The flavor has crisp spicy hops supported by some tangelo and grapefruit citrus hops as well as mild levels of floral hops and sweet sugary maltiness. It gets mainly spicy hop bitterness and grapefruit into the finish with a pretty thin body to boot. Nice refreshing hoppy brew nonetheless. I like it.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2011 at 18:52


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Thanks decaturstevo for sharing-12oz bottle-pours a retaining white head and yellow color. Aroma is lemon, bready. Taste is lemon/spice/pine hops with some bite, bready-lgiht malt. OK effervescence.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2011 at 08:16