Hello My Name Is Sonja
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Collab with: Evil Twin Brewing NYCIPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.26
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The latest installment in our long-running “Hello My Name is…” series. Brewed in collaboration with Jeppe from Evil Twin Brewing, this beer has been fittingly named after Jeppe’s mum … because she’s a Danish woman and that’s kind of how this series works. Single hopped with Mosaic and loaded with well over 100kg of blueberries, this big fruity hop bomb is everything you want in a woman. Or a man. Come say ‘Hi’ to Sonja!
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Draught at Man in the Moon, Stockholm, 11 Jan 2014) Reddish amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of citrus, orange and caramel. Fruity, hoppy taste with citrus, grapefruit, apricots, caramel, hints of blueberries and a generous citric bitterness. Almost full body, with a slight sweetness. Well balanced and tasty, with the berries more in the background than in some of the sister brews, but still quite evident, more so in the taste than in the aroma. Very nice.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2014
at 12:36
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Delirium Hoppy Loft, Brussels. Pours hazy golden with a small creamy head and lacings. Massive piney nose. Fresh! Petroleum and pine. Smooth, dry and crisp with a good bitterness.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2014
at 09:32
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at Man in The Moon, Stockholm. Clear deep amber, small head. Minty, bready citrus aroma. Mid sweet with full body and gentle mouthfeel. Having disliked blueberries since childhood, I must admit that this inferior berry variety really marries well with this DIPA. Also, the beer is thoroughly harmonious with long but balanced bitterness.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2014
at 08:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Vinspecialisten, Aalborg. Hazy orange with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and rather hoppy - grapefruit. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 130114
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2014
at 09:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft @ Hoppy Loft. Orangée portant sur le cuivre, col blanc. Arôme offre de très belles effluves de pin, profond bouquet sève avec un léger rétro-nasal portant sur le malté caramel. Palais est ici aussi axé sur le pin, malté, notes houblonnées assez légères. Houblon rappelant des notes proches de Galaxy et Simcoe décrivant le caractère de Mosaic. Le tout est assez huileux et franchement pas de traces de myrtilles. Ici je trouve le profil pin nettement plus présent et dominant. Malt quant à lui offre une belle palette caramel et un côté très écossais - Brewdog.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jan 2014
at 01:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft from BrewDog Shepherd’s Bush opening night on 29 November 2013. Poured a clear amber with a thin, dense off-white head. Aroma of sharp berries, caramel and cereals. Pine-like hop bitterness on the tongue with some sweet raspberries and aniseed. Finish was hop resin, burnt sugar and dry grain.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jan 2014
at 11:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33cl bottle @ home, bb 09-10-14, #237. Deep amber, thin white head, low carbonation. Nice fruity, citrusy aroma, also more tropical, like mango. Some mild hints of blueberry pops up later, but could as well by imagination as I read the label earlier. Flavor has pine, caramel, dark fruity notes, bitter hoppy, fruity. Finish is long with a biting bitterness, some caramel sweetness and warming alcohol. No blueberries detected. Stuffy, tasty DIPA, really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2014
at 10:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught @ Månen. Really nice aroma with a mix of sweet tropical fruits and fresh forresty notes. Very fruity taste, kind of special, altough I’m not sure if I would have sensed the blueberries if tasting this blind.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2014
at 06:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Man in the Moon. Pours dark redish amber. Nice smooth brew. Rather sweet, evergreens and blueberries.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2014
at 05:13
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from bier-deluxe.de. Amber color with medium white head. Strong aromatic hoppy aroma with tangerines, grapefruit, grapefruit zest, pines, spices. Taste, solid malty base followed by aromatic hops with tangerines, grapefruit, orange zest, pines, mint, touch of blueberries maybe (or I have a great imagination:) ). Long, strong hoppy finish. Really tasty beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2014
at 10:43