Lupulus X. - HBC692
Buxton Brewery in Buxton, Derbyshire, England 🏴
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smallwat3r (4866) ticked Lupulus X. - HBC692 from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
madmitch76 (40782) reviewed Lupulus X. - HBC692 from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12th October 2020
Can. Light haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light malts, a light creamy sweetness. Much improved from the rather thin malt base that I recall from previous iterations of this beer. HBC 692 (Talus is now the commercial name). Crisp pine, crisp and cooling. A light touch of pink grapefruit under modest tropical fruits and a light crisp candy fruits. A touch of tingling hop spice on the finish which leaves a mild citric peel bitter linger. Nicely done. The hop is front and centre here, as it should be but with good support from a much improved malt base. Overall, a very crushable beer.
mike_77 (15880) reviewed Lupulus X. - HBC692 from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy blond with thin head. Aroma has a herbal freshness like mint and some citrus zest. Flavour is dry and earthy with peppery herbal notes coming from the hops.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Lupulus X. - HBC692 from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Can. Unclear yellow color, medoum sized white head. Aroma strikes me a quite herbal, flavor is green-plant like and again a bit herbal hoppy. Ok bitterness but that herbal / plant note, it just keeps coming back, or it's just in my head and I'm driving myself crazy thinking I don't like this beer because of that. Oh well. Decide for yourself...
Camons (21701) reviewed Lupulus X. - HBC692 from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can @ Home. Pours hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma of light malt, fruity hops, citrus, lime, grapefruit - peel. Flavor is light sweet, bitter, light malt, fruity hops, light spicy citrus, lime, grapefruit-peel. Medium body, soft to average carbonation, lasting light bitter finish. 160820
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Lupulus X. - HBC692 from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Apparently the latest one to date in an ongoing series of single hop IPAs by Buxton, this time with HBC 692, a hop variety developed in 2018 by the old Hop Breeding Company (hence the 'HBC') in the Yakima Valley, the original breeding ground of New World hops that have conquered the world in the past decades; this one is apparently still in its experimental phase and therefore hasn't received a 'commercial' cultivar name yet. Very mousy, egg-white, quite large-bubbled, bit irregular, gradually opening and eventually completely dissolving head over a hazy, apricot-tinged straw blonde beer. Aroma of green melon, lime zest, indeed a whiff of the 'potpourri' described by HBC itself with regard to this hop variety, unripe banana, green kiwi, kumquat, moist white pepper, white bread dough, starfruit, lemongrass, vague mango or guava in the background. Crisp onset of 'yellow-green', clean (hops-derived) fruitiness, hinting at unripe melon, kiwi, starfruit and freshly cut apple, sweetish with a sourish edge, lively carbonation but in non-offensive 'small' bubbles, smooth body. Minerally accents accompany a slick, even slightly soapy, white bread dough-like maltiness with a faint cracker-like edge, underneath a growing, refreshingly citric hoppiness, adding a long-lasting, peppery bitterness to the root of the tongue whilst producing retronasal impressions of lime zest, yellow grapefruit flesh, vague coconut and starfruit; ends in any case more bitter than your average present-day NEIPA in spite of its haziness, with the hop aromatics remaining strong, yet not overwhelmingly tropical or sultry in any way. The whole has a crisp, 'yellow-green', bright and refreshing feel to it, but I am not convinced about the long-term viability of a hop variety that does not do anything significantly different from many similar varieties; and as is always the case with series like this, I guess I should have bought more of these Lupulus X beers for comparison. That said: a very tasty, decent brew, but I did not expect anything less from Buxton, which I personally consider to be among the very best, if not the best, of this whole generation of modern American-inspired craft breweries in merry old England.