Single Hop Imperial IPA (HBC-291)
Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.05
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Single... and loving it. Our Single Hop Imperial IPAs showcase the most rare and interesting hop varieties, something all too apparent with HBC-291. It’s so new, it doesn’t even have a name. And this juicy little number proves that a hop without a name smells and tastes just as sweet.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home. Aroma is tropical fruits, malt, citrus, orange, some pine resin, herbal tea, floral notes. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium. Pleasant beer, moderately fruity herbal and nicely bitter. Proves that HBC-291 stands as a single hop variety.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; hazy orange pour with a small bubbly beige head, aroma has strong citrus almost like action, along with some sweet grainy malts, taste has sweet caramel, bitter action, grapefruit, some tangerine, pine hints, the parts are there just don’t combine well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2016
at 12:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle on the train to Egham Beer Festival, 04/08/16. Orange amber with a frothy egg shell white head. Nose is caramel malt, bitter orange, light spice, toasted grains. Taste is malt forward, bitter orange, caramel malt, light bread, toasted grains, faint tropical fruit whisper. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, hop bitterness in the close. Adequate Old Skool DIPA ... no wow factor here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2016
at 08:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Bridgend Service Station. Hazy amber body with a thin off-white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of earth, dried apricot and wood. Flavour of gala melon, pine with a light hop spice. Medium body with a smooth, oily texture. Soft fizz. Sweet and well rounded.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2016
at 06:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle picked up at Albert Heijn XL, Purmerend, consumed at De Drie Morgen, Zoetermeer, Sunday 2nd October 2016 Pours hazy amber with a sticky white head, quite sweet, there is a nice subtle edge. This hop works well in just about everything I’ve had it in so far, we’re drinking this alongside the Nugget version. Soft in the mouth, a little spicy edge, it’s a decent IPA, really nice. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2016
at 13:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
An orange beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has caramel malts, mandarin, some tropical fruitness, fructose and fruit candies. Taste has caramelly maltyness, quite strong bitterness that is long lasting, some citrusfruits. Medium+ bodied, nice carbonation, not heavy. Good and balanced DIPA, could be more fruitful and complex.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Aug 2016
at 08:25