Little Hump
Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Spring|
Score
6.56
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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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7.2/10
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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
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Hay, dandelion, and lemon zest nose. Clear amber, headless. Delightfully floral flavor of dandelion and lilly.Light body, somewhat somewhat sessionable. Hoppy for an APA. Little malt presence. Clean finish. A hophead’s APA, but not very well rounded.
Tried
on 26 Jun 2011
at 11:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty fresh hoppy rapefruit aroma. Fruity malty hoppy flavor with hints of grapefruit. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2011
at 02:16
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Charleston Beer Exchange. Pours gold with a fizzy white head. Nice citrus and floral aromas. Maybe even apple. Not quite medium body. Flavor is light malt with a decent amount of hop. I’d say citrus and floral or grass. Definitely bitter, but this is light. A very good candidate for session or flavorful lawnmower. Very bitter IMHO.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2011
at 17:42
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear pale gold body with a tall white head that settles quickly. Spicy hop aroma with some malt beneath. Light hop bitterness in the flavor. Light bodied, refreshing but not overly complicated.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2011
at 14:31
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Not a bad pale ale, just a rather wimpy one. The hops are nice, giving Little Hump a citric/herbal nose, but their only role in the flavor is the bitter finish. The grainy malts make up the heart of the beer, yet they come off European, making this beer taste much more like a hearty pilsner or a golden bock than a pale ale. Weird but worth a shot.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2011
at 16:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle sent to me by Suttree. Pour is a clear golden with a pure white one inch head that falls with nice lacing. Aroma is fresh hops, dank resinous citrus along with some toasty malt underneath. Not huge, bang you over the head hops, but nicely delicate and fresh. Taste, like the nose, starts with the fresh hops; floral, resin and orange peel. The malt shows up in the finish, and is toasty and flinty. The finish is dry with a dusty earthiness. As with the nose, fresh and crisp. Palate is thin bodied, with a mouthfeel that approaches watery. The thin body makes the hops a bit oily in the aftertaste. Overall, nice crisp fresh drinkable beer. I could drink a few of these in a session. Thanks for this one Phil.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2011
at 17:25