Hop Rising
Squatters Craft Beers in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.00
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A mighty hop-lover’s dream, Hop Rising adds malty backbone to an intense Imperial IPA. This insanely smooth, dry-hopped ale has everything: 9% ALC/VOL, 72 IBUs, and yes, that’s our master brewer Jason Stock pitching in on the label.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle from the state liquor store
Appearance: Clear copper with a nice white head, some lacing
Aroma: Pine and grapefruit
Taste: Bitter pine resin with sweet malts
There is something in this beer that is just not right, I can’t put my finger on it. I bought a case when this was first released because I love the style and brewery and it had the same taste, what a disappointment. I was hoping that it was something that would be tweaked in future batches, so I gave it about 6 months and bought another bottle. It has the same strange taste. I am a big IIPA/DIPA fan and a big Squatters fan, but this beer is not a very good example of the style or brewery (IMHO)
Appearance: Clear copper with a nice white head, some lacing
Aroma: Pine and grapefruit
Taste: Bitter pine resin with sweet malts
There is something in this beer that is just not right, I can’t put my finger on it. I bought a case when this was first released because I love the style and brewery and it had the same taste, what a disappointment. I was hoping that it was something that would be tweaked in future batches, so I gave it about 6 months and bought another bottle. It has the same strange taste. I am a big IIPA/DIPA fan and a big Squatters fan, but this beer is not a very good example of the style or brewery (IMHO)
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2010
at 19:24
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
Big thanks to Douglas88 for this at the Pgh RB gathering 12/09. Please forgive my numbers on this perfectly on style brew. I rate by how much I enjoy them and this is one of my least fave styles. Tho not a fan of this style, everybody at the gathering said it was a really good DIPA. If by really good we mean it is really offensive to me, then, it was really good. Orangy yellow in color. Pine and tree sap aroma. No head. Big terrible bitter brush hog across my tongue. Just plain rude to the immature inexperienced palate of a lager lover. Mouth coating oily feel that leaves me wanting a lindemans framboise, heheh. What else can be said? Just nastily on style. If you like this style, better arrange a trade with douglas88, you will not be sorry!
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2009
at 06:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to douglas88 who is trying to single handly hook Squatters up with as many rates as possible. I think they should make a douglas stout or something like that. Pours out a orange amber topped with a tan head. Aroma is of sweet caramel, rich malts, and floral hops. Taste much of the same sweetness and light hop bitterness. Not bad for a Utah beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2009
at 19:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of douglas88. Pours copper with faint haze, off white head and some dandy sheet lacing. The aroma begins with a touch of grapefruit and then quickly slides into pine and then nearly tree sap with a sense of malt sweetness in the background. The taste begins with a short sweet malt pulse becoming citrus with grapefruit as well as growing pine hop bitterness. To midway and toward the finish both the grapefruit and pine like hop bitterness come to a zenith and then slide down to the finish leaving grapefruit and tangelo hop flavor with a bit of pine bitter hop zing hanging around deep into the after taste. Solid DIPA delivering an abundance of bitterness and some hop flavor, cheers!
Tried
on 27 Nov 2009
at 20:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
courtesy of wasatch. Pours orange, thin off-white head. Aroma plenty of hops, grapefruit, pine very upfront. Flavor, malty with a good bitter side. Lots of pine/spicy hops coupled with good grapefruit palate. The malty side remains rather weak. Bittersweet and lightly spicy finish.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2009
at 21:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours copper with a good beige head. Aromas of floral and fruit. Fullish body with froth carbonation. It’s quite nutty, and very floral. I don’t get the nutty, but that’s how I’m interpreting it. There’s a lot of flavor. Some citrus rind. Finishes more bitter than sweet. I’d say it’s better than DFH 90M. My mouth is starting to shrink. Really good stuff.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2009
at 18:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a large, off-white head over a hazy golden body. Aroma of orange, pine and alcohol. Taste is bitter with orange, alcohol, caramel and fruits. Light bubbles, low residual sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2009
at 11:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Deep amber body. White, fizzy, lasting head. Aroma of cirtrus and flowers, though mainly citrus, with some toasted malts and caramel in the background. The flavor is moderately sweet and moderately bitter. It finishes moderately sweet and slightly more than moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture that turns velvety in the finish and lively carbonation. A nicely balanced, though not overly complex, double IPA. Easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2009
at 20:19