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: 74
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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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle 35,5 cl. Pours a clear amber with an off-white head leaving a discreet lacework. Slightly citrusy hop aroma, but also a little greasy and tired. Medium body, caramellish and metallic with a rough, late bitterness. 290915
Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2015 at 05:38

6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy burnt orange to slightly ruddy brown transparency with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than thirty seconds leaving some messy sticky lacing clinging to the glass.
The smell started off with sweet apricot leading into light caramel notes. Citrus is somewhat there but really stays in the distance for the most part.
The taste was moderately sweet carrying a light sticky bitterness to try and balance but not so much. A light sweet sticky slightly caramel aftertaste runs into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light allowing the bitterness to be the bulk of the harshness hitting the tongue.
Overall, I say this was an okay kind of AIPA. Would I have it again? Maybe, but probably not something to seek out.
Tried on 28 Sep 2015 at 13:21

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Creamy White good mostly deminishing head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. OIly palate.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2015 at 05:15

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle.Clear amber colour with small head.Aroma is strong hoppy and with flavor of pineapples and strong dry hops,good toffee caramel flavor and nice dry finish.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2015 at 06:24

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled@PBF X. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, some mild toffee and also some spruce. Flavour is spruce, some floral and grassy notes along with quite nice bready and caramelly maltiness to it.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Aug 2015 at 04:36

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8
12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear orange color with a medium white head. A big sweet citrus nose. Pretty fresh, citrus, lemons especially, sweet toast, light caramel malts. Good. Easy drinking intro IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2015 at 00:55

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
12oz bottle pours with a clear copper body that has thin gold hues and supports a thin tan head. The mild aroma offers up some pine hops, a light but seemingly out of place biscuit maltiness and then sweet malts feebly flowing into light fruity esters and grassy like hops. The taste starts with a fairly tasty blend of modestly resiny pine hops and biscuit malts. To midway a murmur of sweet malts is noticed amid the pine hop bitterness. Underneath there seems to lurk mild sweet fruity esters. Decent. There’s hops to be had here but they seem to clash with the malts and esters.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jul 2015 at 09:03

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle at PBFX. Clear deep golden, small white head. Oily piney aroma. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Piney, light resin and citrus. Simple and even somewhat bland.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2015 at 10:16

3.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Clear deep golden, mid sized head. Pear and caramel up front. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Caramelly with some stale grapefruit peels. Sugar and wet paper. Mid bitter resiny finish.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2015 at 10:14

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle @ PBF X. Amber color, thick white head. Herbal hops, floral notes. Flavor has gooseberries, caramel, herbal hops. Feels old.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2015 at 10:14