Fresh HopWired
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA - New England / Hazy Special|
Score
7.37
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A fresh (wet hopped) version of our flagship IPA, HopWired. Brewed to the same recipe but with fresh hop cones straight from the vine.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Mikkeller webshop. Deep orange-brown amber colour, creamy foam head and aroma of mango, caramel, hoppy. Taste is malt caramel balanced with flowery tropical fruits, citrus grapefruit & pine resiny bitterness. Smoothish slightly oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, hoppy lingering dry bitter finish. Very drinkable IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2014
at 11:03
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Ammersin 5, Vienna.
Dark amber, hazy body, with a medium, creamy, light beige head.
Very fresh, fruity aroma of lychee, red berries, melon, apricot, citrus, some pine, some vanilla.
Tastes of citrus, lychee, berries, apricot, some pine, biscuit, caramel.
Mouthfeel is medium, oily, with a medium carbonation and it finishes medium bitter, slightly dry, with lemon zest, pine, lychee and other fruits and some sweet malts.
Tasty! Very fresh, with loads of fruits, especially some lovely lychee notes and also with a smooth malt backbone. Overall this is a superb wet hop IPA!
Dark amber, hazy body, with a medium, creamy, light beige head.
Very fresh, fruity aroma of lychee, red berries, melon, apricot, citrus, some pine, some vanilla.
Tastes of citrus, lychee, berries, apricot, some pine, biscuit, caramel.
Mouthfeel is medium, oily, with a medium carbonation and it finishes medium bitter, slightly dry, with lemon zest, pine, lychee and other fruits and some sweet malts.
Tasty! Very fresh, with loads of fruits, especially some lovely lychee notes and also with a smooth malt backbone. Overall this is a superb wet hop IPA!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2014
at 14:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, dark copper colour with small to average, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Piney, hoppy aroma, hints of grapefruit, pineapple and orange. Taste is slightly biting bitter hoppy, piney, hints of cardboard, some pineapple, caramel malty basis; lasting, biting bitter hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2014
at 13:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Mikkeller Webshop
Pours reddish orange with a small head. Aroma of wet grassy hoppiness, berries, caramely malts and syrup. Taste is malty, earthy and wet hoppy with loads of grass, berries and caramel. Finish is sweetish and malty with caramely notes and berries. Quite malty and heavy with berries.
Pours reddish orange with a small head. Aroma of wet grassy hoppiness, berries, caramely malts and syrup. Taste is malty, earthy and wet hoppy with loads of grass, berries and caramel. Finish is sweetish and malty with caramely notes and berries. Quite malty and heavy with berries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2014
at 03:27
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Mikkeller online shop; dark amber pour with a creamy off white head, tangerine and pine aroma, taste has grapefruit, pineapple, some citrus, a hint of caramel, oily resinous hop mouthfeel, very good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Fresh HopWired @dylanadmin1 on 05 Aug 2014 at 19:54 - Score: 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2014
at 11:53