Hoppenheimer

Bottle, 6 yrs past the BBD. Pours clear light copper brown with airy beige head. Dusty aroma with sweetish notes of caramel, malt and yeast. Bitter, hoppy flavour with dusty notes and sweet touches of caramel malt and yeast. Bitter, dusty aftertaste with notes of citrus and malt. Warming alcohol presence. A nice one.

Bottle, 9.7%. 6 years past BB date. Good caramelly aroma. Hazy light pink amber sort of colour. Small white head. The flavour starts off quite bitter, and turns nicely caramelly. Has a smokey touch, but that might be due to age. Late caramel finish and clean bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel. Slightly sweet, but well-balanced.

Brown bottle, 0.5 l, lot 621, best before 03.10.13, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on December 2 2014; eye: caramel with a coppery hue, lightly hazy, tiny ring of beige head, light lacing; nose: malt, caramel, resinous hops, slight fruity; mouth: malt, caramel, resinous hops, fruity, finale in bittering hops with good presence of caramel, full body, good carbonation, mildly bitter, mildly sweet, syrupy and lightly harsh texture; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 0,5 l, lot 621, meilleure avant 03.10.13, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 2 décembre 2014; œil : caramel avec une teinte cuivrée, légèrement voilée, petit anneau de mousse beige, légère dentelle; nez : malt, caramel, houblon résineux, très léger fruité; bouche : malt, caramel, houblon résineux, fruité, finale en houblon amérisant avec bonne présence de caramel, corsé, bonne carbonatation, moyennement amère, moyennement sucrée, texture sirupeuse et légèrement râpeuse; en résumé : correct

500ml bottle. Clear, orangey deep golden to amber colour with average to huge, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Citrusy hoppy aroma, notes of grapefruit, some resin, some cheesy sweat, a minimally smoky touch. Taste is minimally smoky, dry and bitter hoppy, surpressed hints of citrus fruit; lasting dry finish, well hidden alcohol. With time going by the smoky notes add up to become the predominating flavour.

Bottle: Poured a deep amber/golden color ale with a relatively large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of citrus and lightly resinous hops is dominant with some light notes of residual sugar. Taste is also dominated by dominant notes of citrus hops and some light resinous notes with some lightly sweet mat in the background. Body is about average with good carbonation. Well brewed though hops floral notes could have been even more powerful.

From the private SAQ import. Pours a cloudy amber colour with a big warm yellow cap, great retention and loads of fluffy lace. Fruity malts with lots of caramel and even butterscotch at one point. The hop is present, but the whole thing seems more like a normal IPA, not like an Impy IPA. Notes of grapefruits eventually appear. Alcohol is very well-hidden, goes down quite nicely. Grapefruit zest in the taste offering a little dryness. Orange hints linger in the aftertaste. Really smooth overall and different for the style as previously mentioned. In a good way.

Pale amber in colour, slightly unclear, not much head. Aroma of American hops. Bitter, for some reason with a hint of smoked malt, and grape fruit, in aftertaste.