Hop Henge
(has 7 batches)
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.38
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Hop Henge Experimental IPA is our annual exercise in IBU escalation. An outrageous amount of Centennial and Cascade hops are added to each barrel, with a heavy dry-hop presence as well. It is dense and muscular, with a blend of crystal, pale and carastan malts creating an overall biscuity characteristic. It’s all hop, no apologies.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Chris Holder at the 8th Richmond Gathering on 06/06/2009. Clear caramel amber body with a medium creamy off-white head. Big floral and citrus hop aroma with a caramel background. Sweet caramel flavor with some citrus and floral notes, slightly resiny. Medium full body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2009
at 14:24
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle. Pours a slightly hazy copper color with a a medium head. Fair head retention and good lacing. Nice aroma with notes of citrus and resin, strawberry and pear with a nice toffee and grainy malt backbone. Taste is sweet toffee malts and huge citrus notes. Very bitter hops. Peppery finish. Medium bodied. Very nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2009
at 18:24
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
A tall, broken off-white head sits over this clear, deep coppery colored brew. The aroma is a fresh fruit medley of strawberry, orange, grapefruit and lemon. Bitter hops in a great balance with lots of juicy malts. Well balanced and a real winner here!
Tried
on 28 May 2009
at 15:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, Batch #3, 2009. Pours with a sticky orange-amber body with a large foamy off-white head that leaves awesome lacing. Aroma is excellent with fruity hops including peach, tangerine, and others, raspberry and a noticeable sweetness, sugar and caramel. Taste is a very nice balance of toffee, berries, burnt sugar and fruity, floral hops. Creamy bubbles...Great!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2009
at 01:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle as shown. Pours a clear amber with a small creamy off white head that leaves behind good sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is very hoppy with cascade, pine and grapefruit. Medium mouthfeel with a sweet hop and alcohol in a very bitter finish. A very good double IPA from Deschutes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2009
at 23:37
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
courtesy of fishingnet. pours copper, white head. Aroma is hoppy, floral and citrus Taste is just similar, floral hops with a bitter finish and citrus. Good DIPA, a little more on the hoppy side than I am used to.Earlier Rating: 7/6/2008 Total Score: 3.4Courtesy of Gunhaver. The beer’s ABV was 8.75% Color is copper with a white head. Aroma is quite hoppy and with the yeast, make it very bitter, some caramel malt, but it does not seem to balance the bitter taste. Noted a slight touch of raisin.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2009
at 01:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle-pours a big tight foamy off white head and copper color. Aroma is nice grapefruit and lemon rind/pine hops. Tase is resin/grapefruit rind with some bitter, some herbal, medium malt. Then some tannins and alcohol come to the front, detracting. Thanks skoutis for trade with jwc215 and me. 3.3, at cellar temp 3.6
Earlier Rating: 6/9/2008 Total Score: 3.1
22oz bottle @Noogfest4.0-thanks scoobyluv–pours an off white head and cloudy copper color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel, cherry, biting hops, alcohol. Occasional.
Earlier Rating: 6/9/2008 Total Score: 3.1
22oz bottle @Noogfest4.0-thanks scoobyluv–pours an off white head and cloudy copper color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel, cherry, biting hops, alcohol. Occasional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2009
at 18:10
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Slightly hazy copper and amber coloured body with an orange and ruby glow - nice. All atop a very thick and luscious tan head. Aroma of pure hops, fresh grapefruity, floral and even slightly nutty. Medium-bodied; Strong astringent hops up front that lead to a massive sweetness, a lighter citrus flavour and a less-than-expected bit of hoppiness. Aftertaste is perhaps a bit too alcoholic, definitely sweet, but lacking any real hops - very interesting. Overall, I’d say this is somewhere in between an Imperial IPA and a Barley Wine, but in reality, it doesn’t work too well. Contrary to these reviews here - I didn’t like it so much, but it was interesting to sample. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased on 21-March-2009 at City Beer in San Francisco, California sampled today (less than a week later) on 27-March-2009 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2009
at 22:34