Hop Freshener Series: Dank & Sticky
The Hop Concept in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Series|
Score
7.44
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The inaugural beer of The Hop Concept brand, this IPA boasts aromas of citrus and dank, resinous pine. As the flavor opens, huge notes of stonefruit and dank resin give way to a malty backbone and drying hop bitterness on the finish.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep gold into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving sticky spiders. Dark caramel, pine and resin aromas. Dry with sweet dark caramel and (ok) dank, sticky resin. Lasting roasted pith finish.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2016
at 18:05
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Nice crisp and hazy copper tinted bronze body with a nice two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of resinous, piney and herbal hops with some noticeable citrus and grapefruits coupled with a rather large malt nose and some alcohol as well. Medium to Full-bodied; Rich sticky and strong flavour with a lot of malt, but the hops up front shape the beer - rounded and resinous along with some pine, grapefruit, grass and herbal elements show off, but the hops are well balanced by the bunches of malt in this one. Aftertaste shows a nice complexity throughout that shows some alcohol warmth, a little touch of sweetness from fruit and finishing up with a rather bitter finish from all the hops. Overall, a nice Imperial IPA, which as stated on the bottle - is a good mix of dank and sticky flavours, all of which show well and have a nice complexity. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Los Angeles (Downtown LA), California on 23-February-2016 for US$6,99 sampled at home in Washington on 07-April-2016 that was well worth the space in my suitcase for this one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2016
at 01:49
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle 65 cl. Pours a hazy golden with a small, off-white head. Very unpleasant, dank, onion-like aroma. Medium body, some fruits but again these onion-like notes. Harsh and crude bitter finish. Not nice! 070416
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2016
at 06:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from The Beer Junction, Seattle
Golden color, clean, with generous head. The aroma is very dank. Lean body, on the dry side, the malt has a mild caramel and toffee touch; plenty of hop resins; I'm less impressed by the final, a bit papery, dank, no fruits.
Robust.
Golden color, clean, with generous head. The aroma is very dank. Lean body, on the dry side, the malt has a mild caramel and toffee touch; plenty of hop resins; I'm less impressed by the final, a bit papery, dank, no fruits.
Robust.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2016
at 22:52
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
650 ml bottle thanks going to T.J on this bottle. No bottling date or code anyplace. Thin white head lacing the snifter. Color is a hazy orange. Aroma is lots of pine with a pretty steady among of scallion and grass.
The hop variety is everything with the addition of the kitchen sink. Yet what shocked me is that with all the hops, it’s not overly abrasive or over the top bitter. More balanced then I was expecting. Are 9 hop varieties overdoing it? Maybe, maybe not. I like what the Lost Abby did here. Yes, the Lost Abby. What is up with pretending this is a separate brewery???
Overall, this is still a real decent imperial IPA.
The hop variety is everything with the addition of the kitchen sink. Yet what shocked me is that with all the hops, it’s not overly abrasive or over the top bitter. More balanced then I was expecting. Are 9 hop varieties overdoing it? Maybe, maybe not. I like what the Lost Abby did here. Yes, the Lost Abby. What is up with pretending this is a separate brewery???
Overall, this is still a real decent imperial IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2016
at 20:39
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured from 22 oz bottle purchased at New England Beverage golden orange color with a thin white head. Aromas of dank citrus grassy scallion and pine resin. Taste is slightly sweet with notes of grass citrus and a kitchen sink of hops in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2016
at 20:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Sweet and piney with some dank notes. Clear gold with a decent white head. Woody, piney and dank notes. Aptly named and quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2016
at 00:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at CBC Clerkenwell 10/9/2015. Many thanks to Paul for this one. Translucent golden orange coloured pour with a lasting thin white head . Aroma is big dank lemon, onion and some strawberry. Flavour is composed of sweet and juicy hop, midget gems, passion fruit. Palate is medium sticky, resinous, highish carbonation. Assertive clean hop bitterness Super juicy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2015
at 08:58
2.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1
26.11.2015, 0,65l bottle (bbd. 03.05.2015) shared with friends:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is kind of strange sour-ish, old citrus peel, rotten leafs, minerals, old hops, weeds, soda powder. Taste is slightly sour-ish concentrated grassy, old citrus peel, minerals, weeds, medicine, paper, rotten leafs, harsh hops, grass. Medium bitterness, sour-ish medical mouthfeel. Drainpour!
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is kind of strange sour-ish, old citrus peel, rotten leafs, minerals, old hops, weeds, soda powder. Taste is slightly sour-ish concentrated grassy, old citrus peel, minerals, weeds, medicine, paper, rotten leafs, harsh hops, grass. Medium bitterness, sour-ish medical mouthfeel. Drainpour!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2015
at 13:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at Craft Beer Co, Clekenwell - London. Cheers! Pours unclear gold with a creamy, white head. The aroma has light melon, tangerine, pine needles. Light to medium sweet flavor with a decent kick of booze, herbal hops, rindy citrus, dry bready malts. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Lightly resinous on the finish, a little warming, with crusty pale malts, citrus rind, pine needles. Perhaps not at its freshest. So so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2015
at 01:23