HopWired IPA
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA Regular|
Score
7.50
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We believe HopWired is the first bottled version of a true new world India Pale Ale made with NZ grown base malt and 100% truly unique NZ hops. We bet you’ll find nothing else like it on the shelves.
Although the malty sweetness is there, this beer is all about the hops. Unlike an American I.P.A. which will mainly hit you with a grapefruity-citrus flavour and aroma, the unique NZ hops used in HopWired are more like a tropical punchbowl: Passion fruit, lime, oranges and Sauvignon Blanc to name but a few. A local Marlborough winemaker said it smelled like gooseberries... Gooseberries? Who has ever smelled a gooseberry?? Decide for yourself or just enjoy it without further complications. Cheers!
Although the malty sweetness is there, this beer is all about the hops. Unlike an American I.P.A. which will mainly hit you with a grapefruity-citrus flavour and aroma, the unique NZ hops used in HopWired are more like a tropical punchbowl: Passion fruit, lime, oranges and Sauvignon Blanc to name but a few. A local Marlborough winemaker said it smelled like gooseberries... Gooseberries? Who has ever smelled a gooseberry?? Decide for yourself or just enjoy it without further complications. Cheers!
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
[5/3/13] Draught at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2013. Hazy orange. Slightly hoppy aroma, a bit stale, with some floral and "green" notes. Hoppy flavor, a bit stale, with light sweetness and decent bitterness. Medium-bodied.
Tried
on 08 May 2013
at 10:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught at CBC ’13. Light hazy amber liquid with small to medium off-white head. Aroma of bread, pine, citrus, grapefruit, grapes and grain. Taste is dry and medium to high bitter with notes of bread, pine and mango. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Pretty meh IPA.
Tried
on 08 May 2013
at 06:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught @ CBC. Pours golden with a nice sized white head. Aroma of malt, light bread, fresh grassy, fruity, citrusly hops, grapes. Flavor is malt, nice hoppy with grapes, light citrus, grassy. Medium body, soft carbonation, light bitter finish. 030513
Tried
on 05 May 2013
at 12:19
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
50cl bottle pours up with a clear copper body and thin gold hues supporting a dirty white head of foam. The aroma offers up an inviting degree of dank earthy hops that are shallot and somewhat garlic like along with some grapefruit citrus hops around the edges. The taste is similar and I’m digging it. This has a great mix of dankness, shallots, grapefruit and garlic as well as a earthy black tea quality that surfaces about midway. Reading this back those flavor combinations don’t seem like notes that should go well together but boy howdy! they do. Yum, solid rich and balanced where the hop bitterness plays well with the various hop flavors.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2013
at 18:48
7/10
A hazed dark amber ipa with a thick frothy lacing light mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with with dank resinous hops, light sulfur notes, nice and complex. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light dank notes, very nice and smooth, even after 7 years. Bottle bought in April 2013.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2013
at 14:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Very good IPA considering how long it probably took to get here and how long the LCBO probably sat on it in the warehouse. Pours clear orange with pillowy head and decent lacing. Aroma of malt, citrus and pine. Finishes bitter and a little sweet. The consistency is a little thicker than average. Average carbonation. Nicely balanced. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2013
at 19:25
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(500mL bottle from LCBO) Pours a clear medium orange with a small, fine white head that dissipated quickly leaving lots of lace. Aroma hits you with tropical fruits - passion fruit up front, lime and orange rind, then melon lingering in the background, and more wet leaves than resin. Some caramel malt in the nose for support. Flavour has a slightly grainy sweet malt supporting orange, bit of pineapple, slight white wine, moving towards bitter mandarin and lime peel, and a healthy dose of hop bitterness that dries the finish out completely but with pith more than resin characters. Medium-light body, smooth, bit high carb but fairly soft. This is a super blend of NZ hops and US IPA characters, great fruit, great balance of flavour and drinkability. Needs summer weather!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2013
at 17:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500 ml bottle. Pours a clear orange/amber with very little head. Aromas of citrus, over-ripe tropical fruit, spruce, and sour mash. Flavors of toasted malts, toffee, rubber, and over-ripe fruit. Very nice, but really, where’s the hops?
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2013
at 19:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at Craft Brixton - 28/09/12. Lightly hazed amber with a thin white head. Nose deominated by tropical fruit, mango, papaya, passion fruit, a little pine and hops. Taste follows with some bitter grapefruit, more pine, a bit sharper than the largely sweet nose suggested. Medium bodied with a sweet fruity finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Oct 2012
at 02:34