Atwater Brewery Hop-a-Peel

Hop-a-Peel

 

Atwater Brewery in Detroit, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Rotating Out of Production
Score
6.55
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 118 Ticks: 15
Atwater’s HopApeel is a frontal assault on the American IPA style that features not only the classic American Cascade and Chinook hops, but two of the new “Super Cascade” varieties in both the kettle and in the dry hop. Dried and ground orange peel is added to the whirlpool to deliver a citric bittering that sets HopApeel apart from the masses.
 

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6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Orange gold in color, medium sized head. Aroma was orange, citrus and grapefruit. Taste was orange, orange peel and grapefruit.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 05:13


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at BrewMaster’s Craft Beer Festival. Pours a cloudy copper with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is earth, grass, citrus. Medium body, sweet hop, toasted malt, light bitterness, decent.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2017 at 17:33


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

(bottle, 35.5cl) Hazy, light-amber colour with a short and off-white foamy head. Mildly fruity and piney hoppy aroma with notes of citrus, oranges; hints of bready, slightly oxidized cara-malt in the background. Moderately bitter flavour with a balanced malty sweetness underneath, modest carbonation; rather dry bitter-sweet piney hoppy finish. 20.VI.16

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jun 2016 at 11:20


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Orange color with small white head. Aroma is piney, tangerines, orange peel. Taste is slightly oxidized, piney, bitter finish, carbonation. Bottle was probably a bit too old, close to its BB date. Still ok.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2016 at 17:05


7.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Slightly hazy amber, orange, light brown with little white head. Aroma is pine cone, orange, fresh grassy hops. Taste is bitter hoppyness, with some more bitter sour fruits. A little too bitter for me. But still nice. Long dry finish with also more sourness. Not much carbonation. Not so easy to drink. Overall good.

Tried on 20 Jun 2016 at 16:12


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Cloudy amber, low offwhite head. Musty pine and caramel malt. Medium light body, mellow mouthfeel . Dusty Krystal , light oxidized, piney, herbal hops. A bit past its prime I guess.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2016 at 11:39


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Crisp amber and copper coloured body with a large, five centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pale malt, yeast, bread and a bit of hops - no citrus at all yet. Medium-bodied; Assertive nutty and earthy malt up front with some toffee and a very light, layered sweetness of flowers, oranges and caramel, with some grassiness and a bit of metal on the finish. Aftertaste is relatively subdued with some sweetness and earthy malt with toffee and little else - no hop bitterness and only some faint orange flavours. Overall, a decent beer at best, without any hop qualities or citrus notes, this is a bit underwhelming. I sampled this sixteen ounce can purchased from Siciliano’s in Grand Rapids, Michigan on 11-September-2015 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington on 06-October-2015.

Tried from Can on 07 Oct 2015 at 00:54


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Tried on 11 Jul 2015 at 18:05


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

bottle - This brew has a fairly mild, citrusy, bready aroma. The flavor has some good hops though perhaps not as assertively bitter as many American IPAs. The citrus is there. It’s not as strong as I expected for the hops varietals and added orange peel. I’m not really picking up orange specifically. Fairly good beer overall.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2015 at 17:11


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

bottle. Pretty nice ipa. Something was off or perhaps it was old - have to try this one again

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2014 at 20:36