Single HOP Series - Columbus
Hermitage Brewing Company in San Jose, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Series Out of Production|
Score
6.85
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West Coast in style and agressively hopped, this Single Hop IPA showcases "Columbus" and its Earthy, Pungent and mild cirusy flavors. 7% ABV
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy, deep copper coloured body with a thinnish, one centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of fresh grassy and herbal hops with a bitter resin bite and mostly a piney finish - nice and potent. Medium-bodied; Assertive grassy and floral hop note at first with a bit of a lemony kick, showing a good amount of malt, some sweetness at the end and the overlying hop bitterness throughout - relatively nice. Aftertaste is well balanced, having a good grassy character with not too much alcohol or bitterness, but enough to make it an ipa. Overall, perahps worth searching out for a cheap, single hop variety in a large format bottle. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from BevMo (Geary Boulevard) in San Francisco, California on 14-January-2012 for US$3.99 sampled at home in Washington on 21-March-2012 after seeing the beautiful (albeit early) Cherry Blossoms.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2012
at 22:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bomber from BevMo Salinas. Nose is citrus with hints of pine, and a light earthy vegetable note. Clear copper with a big, lightly lacing, long lasting beige head. Flavor is bitter, caramel, and a big bitter finish.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2012
at 20:13
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber pours clear copper with off white head. The aroma offers up full array of pleasing spicy hoppiness and then it gets sort of bitter resiny like spicy hops as well as earthy hops. Yum. The taste is very much the same with rich chewy spicy hops with faint murmurs of sweet malts that try to temper the hops for a short time. To midway, as the tiny bit of sweet maltiness fades away, the spicy hops pick up a growing bitter resiny sensation and at times I get notes of earthy hops, manure, hay and black tea. I am digging this in a big way. This is the spicy hoppy goodness I’m after.
Tried
on 02 Oct 2011
at 22:26
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Last of the single hops (thank god). Pours with a murky golden brown hued body and a large, off-white, fluffy head that fades pretty quickly. Aromas are citrus, earthy, herbal, tropical fruit, pungent, dank hops. Trademark (it seems) phenolic, smokey, band-aid Hermitage yeast aroma is quite present. Plastic and campfire. Sweet, crystal malt. Flavors are hoppy, soapy, herbal, astringent, infection. Grainy, husky tannins, phenolic smokiness. Lasting smokey flavors. Caramel, bready. Medium to lively bubbles, dry finish with some astringencies. Even at the cheap price, Hermitage beers often feel like a rip-off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2011
at 17:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
bottle from BevMo pours light amber with a medium light tan head. Aroma is strong citrus rind, bitter orange, grapefruit. Flavor is toast and nuts with a sour/bitter orange and grapefruit hop finish. Mildly assertive but dry finish. Again, this line is affordable, and they are well done. What’s not to love?
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2011
at 19:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a dark cream colored head. Earth and grapefruit aroma with pine and malt. Grapefruit and earthy flavopr with malt and pine. Medium bodied. Nice bitterness. Grapefruit and earth lingers with pine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2011
at 16:56