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
Bottle, 8.5%. Hazy amber/orange with medium off-white head. Aroma is Aroma is malt, fruit, hops, citrus, grapefruit and pine. Flavour is malt, fruit, hops, citrus, grapefruit, pine, peach, earthy, little sweet and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2015
at 13:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A golden, a head is quite big and blond. Aroma has tropical fruits, mangos, pineapples, some papaiyas and fructose. Taste has strong pine needles, some tropical fruits and grapefruits, strong bitterness, dry. The end is piney with resin. The bitterness is even tickling in the throat. Medium bodied, quite smooth. Dry, tropical notes and now the bitterness is totally enough, the great beer.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2015
at 03:21
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Towering fine yellow-cream head, very stable & lacey, over veiled amber-orange beer. Nose full of exotic and other fruit (passion, peach, lychee,...) and also simply hoppy. Some pale malts too, greenmalt, grassy. Pure lupulin and hopoils, bitter, wry, sticky. Bit of ureum, unripe fruit, pine needles, resin. This is drinking diluted hopoils, wow. Sticky, viscous liquid, slightly burning MF. Don’t look for balance, here. Again not one for the fainthearted. Hopheads, rejoice.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2015
at 09:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 22oz, at Sandar. It’s a lightly hazy one, golden in color and with a dense two-finger off-white head. It’s very piney on the nose, resiny and tropical, grapefruit and some malts. Some warmth on the palate, it’s full bodied and soft, quite dry. Grapefruit, pine cones, citrus peel and some malty sweetness in the flavor, as well as a nice bitterness. Lasting hop dominated finish. Pretty wonderful this one. 150531
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2015
at 07:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Vinoble Odense. Pours hazy golden with a white head. Lots of pine. Bitter, dry and sticky. Some vague citrus and peach. Tasty!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2015
at 16:23
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle split at the sleepy-rapping tasting at Ronny & Alex’s pad, CBC fine tuner, 30/04/15. Lightly hazed orange golden with a decent off white covering. Nose is tangy citrics, grapefruit, straw, light spice. Taste comprises toasted malt, caramel, straw, grapefruit, citric pith, earthy hops. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, seim drying close with earthy hop bitterness. Ok DIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2015
at 07:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Satan i gatan vilka fräscha friska humle IPA dofter. Myyycket skum . . Pilsner smak å fin torr efterbeska. En medel Dipa på alla sätt.
Tried
on 10 May 2015
at 14:10
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
30th April 2015
Bigger tasting at Ronny’s flat, Copenhagen. Hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, good fine carbonation. Light semi sweet malts. Trace of dry cream. Hop spice, marmalade, tropical fruits. Light smooth finish with orange peel and mango lingering on. Very nice.
Bigger tasting at Ronny’s flat, Copenhagen. Hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, good fine carbonation. Light semi sweet malts. Trace of dry cream. Hop spice, marmalade, tropical fruits. Light smooth finish with orange peel and mango lingering on. Very nice.
Tried
on 10 May 2015
at 10:48
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
22oz bomber pours with a hopped up murky mess of a deep gold body that supports a thin dirty white head. The look of this speaks in the language of hops and nothing else. Love it. The aroma tosses up nice thick sticky pine hops and then it grows quickly into malt sweetened spicy dank onion like goodness. It seems the thickness somehow muffles the hop aroma. The taste is surprisingly smooth and supple as malt sweetened pine and spicy onion hops descend onto a helpless yet time tested palate. The body takes on a thick chewiness that allows for a depth that has no bottom. This is right where it needs to be in body and appearance but it seems the hops and malts didn’t come together to their full potential to take this from terrific to mind blowing.
Tried
on 09 May 2015
at 16:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle@Ronny and Alex pre cbc tasting #2 - Amber pour with white head. Nice tropical aroma and taste, herbal hoppy, piney, lovely drop. ---Sent via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2015
at 14:19