Hop City Brewing Company HopBot IPA

HopBot IPA

 

Hop City Brewing Company in Brampton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
6.42
ABV: 7.1% IBU: 70 Ticks: 75
A West Coast hop party. Pouring copper in colour, HopBot delivers waves of absurd citrus and tropical aroma and flavour. Programmed with 5 West Coast American hops, our IPA drinks smooth and balanced thanks to it’s solid malt backbone.
 

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6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can - Lots of grapefruit aroma, malty sweetness and some earthy hops. Clear gold with a decent white head. Caramel and some light grapefruit hops. Orange and a little sweetness and bitterness.
Tried from Can on 10 Sep 2014 at 17:18

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
bottle - copper pour, good citrus hop aroma... the flavor has assertive hop bitterness with pleasant citrus notes and sweet, mildly caramel accented malt. It’s medium bodied and quite good.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2014 at 20:43

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Caramel malt and spicy citrusy hops aroma. Clear dark copper with a large ivory head. Sweet bready caramel malt, and weedy herbal hops flavor. Medium body, soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2014 at 12:26

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can from the LCBO. A great  deep copper color that I find perfect for an IPA - big thick foamy beige head. It has a big herbal resinous hop bouquet. Slick med-full mouthfeel. The taste is lovely biscuity, herbal, resinous, dank hop goodness with light citrus - good stuff.
Tried from Can on 12 Aug 2014 at 10:44

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Pours fairly crystal clear deep orange/copper color with a 2 finger dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, lemon zest, apricot, orange peel, floral, grass, light caramel, biscuit, light pine, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good complexity and balance of citrus/tropical hops and moderate bready malt sweetness; with decent strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon zest, apricot, orange peel, pine, floral, grass, light caramel, biscuit, and floral/grassy earthiness. Good amount of pine/grassy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon zest, pine, light caramel, biscuit, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish fora good bit. Very nice complexity and balance of bright citrus/tropical hops and moderate bready malt sweetness; with a great crisp malt/bitterness balance and no cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, and moderately sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good IPA. Nice complexity of citrus/tropical hops and moderate bready malt sweetness; and very smooth and crisp to drink for the ABV. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2014 at 18:31

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can from the LCBO. Cloudy deep orange amber pour with a one finger off white head that fades slowly and leaves a bit of lace. Nose is grass, pine resin, roasted nuts and toffee. Sweet caramel start with a light to medium bitter middle of citrus and pine becoming more bitter through the finish but not as much as the nose promised. Medium slick mouth with average carbonation.
Tried from Can on 09 Aug 2014 at 14:45

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Pours an amber color. Strong hops that linger on the aftertaste. Not much aroma on the nose.
Tried on 03 Aug 2014 at 04:40

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Pours a clear deep amber colour with a big frothy warm cap, great retention and full foamy lace. Great aromas of hops with fresh grass, pine notes and citrus zest. The taste is not as strong, with some mild fruity zest and some very light grain. A little bitterness and some hints of rusty water in the mouth. This is what takes points away from this brew. Other than that, nice to see this brewery do a stronger IPA and available in cans. Quite drinkable.
Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2014 at 22:05

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can: Poured a golden color ale with a generous head with good retention and some OK lacing. Aroma consists of citrus notes with light floral notes. Taste is also dominated by citrus notes with loads of floral notes and a lightly sweet malt backbone. Body is about average with good carbonation. Not bad bit hops could be even more explosive with a little bit less residual sugars.
Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2014 at 16:41

2/10
Foul.
Tried on 24 Jul 2014 at 19:43