Left Hand Brewing Company Warrior IPA

Warrior IPA

 

Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
7.09
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 69 Ticks: 98
Brewed only once a year with fresh hops hand-picked in Longmont, CO and Warrior hops straight off the vine from Yakima, WA.

Warrior is brewed using a unique style called “Wet Hopping,” which requires only hops that are no more than a day from the vine. “Wet Hopping” imparts only a mild aroma, but an exceptionally fresh unfiltered hop flavor.
 

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6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Biggish offwhite head. Light brown body. Orangey straw and malts aroma. Dry-sweet medicinal straw and malts taste with chalky notes. Bitter fruity grassy aftertaste. Nice. Not too assertive. (0.65l bottle from Systembolaget, Göteborg.)
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jun 2008 at 06:15

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle Pours out a orangeish amber topped with a cream off white head. A very nice aroma oh hopped up hops. Tast of sweet caramel and tast hops. This brew was very nice. I almost was thinking it was a Double IPA. Thanks to BückDich for letting me have some of this great IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2008 at 22:04

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled. Clear amber color, short head. Aroma is very hoppy, though mild, grapefruit, hint of pine, some malt. Moderate bitter taste, fresh. Quite decent.
Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2008 at 16:47

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Hazy dark amber. Decent rocky head. Quality hop nose with lots of wood and kumquat, plus a little cantaloupe. Slightly chewy crystal malt character with an even-handed bitterness. Dry but yet chewy finish has some pleasant berry notes.
Tried from Can on 30 Apr 2008 at 15:44

7.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottled:
Amber coloured with a rich and creamy head. Soapy hops on the nose. Loads of resinous, soapy hops in the flavour. Long bitterness. Doesn’t break any new ground but is really tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2008 at 11:57

9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 9
22oz bomber. WOW. Ok, i admit it, I’m a sucker for Fresh Hop beers. Every single one (5 or so?) have been fantastic. This one is quite impressive. Big, biscuity malt profile that serves as the perfect base for the all out earthy hop profile. Orange caramel color. Sweet, mellow aroma. A great beer for a refined hophead.
Tried on 16 Mar 2008 at 20:39

7.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bomber shared with Degarth courtesy of Degarth. Thanks again. Pours clear deep copper with gold edges, off white head and mild spotty lacing. The aroma is inviting with malt and caramel sweetness mixed with pine hops. Mmmm nice even malty goodness to start the flavor off with roasty malts, sweet malts, kettle caramelization and then the pine hop bitterness hits. First the pine bitterness is just there fighting with the steadfast malts. By midway the pine bitterness makes a surge and by the finish it becomes the dominant flavor being joined by a dash of green/wet hops. Bitter hops ride right into the after taste. Very nice.
Tried on 14 Feb 2008 at 21:46

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draught pint at Sunset Grill on 11/17/07
Bright peach-golden body is full of carbonation, leading to a two-finger white head that is well-retained and laces quite well.
Attractive fruity nose showcases cherries and nectarines up front which quickly evolve in to a more profoundly bitter tangerine-grapefruit sharpness. Pale and caramel malts impart an appropriate backbone of sweetness, with a touch of sweaty/catty wet-hop notes on the finish and some lingering toastiness from the medium malts. Alcohol is well-concealed and I detect no flaws. Pine emerges, drying things (maybe a touch too much) on the finish, with breathing/warming. Medium to medium-high strength of aroma.
The flavor is where this one really shines, with a fantastic array of vibrant fruits, deep ruby red grapefruit sweetness and crisp, lemony-orange bitterness that helps curtail the sweet malts. Carbonation is rich and soothing, imparting an almost creamy, tight texture and further helping to disperse any unwanted malt sweetness. Some sweet/sour toastiness develops from the malts and there is some, rather inevitable, cattiness from the hops, but other than that, this is really well done and not overdone in bitterness at all. Quite complex hop flavors (grapefruit, pine, floral notes, nectarine, lemon, orange). Alcohol well concealed in flavor, no flaws noted.
Tried on 17 Jan 2008 at 13:00

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Pours amber into a tulip. Fluffy off-white head with good retention leaves sheet lacing as it slowly recedes. Pine and grapefruit aromas. Crisp with sticky resin up-front and a lasting grapefruit hop finish. Gets all the flavors of an imperial without getting too sweet or the abv. Nice.
Tried on 29 Dec 2007 at 17:38

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Completely clear, reddish gold beer, with a soapy, short-lived head - bracing, woody/piney, citrus-heavy hop aroma - very fresh, peppery, spicy hop flavor, with a bready, nearly buttery british maltiness running underneath it, just enough to keep it from being all hops - those hops sure are center stage, though - orange rind bitterness and slight astringency and metallic character in the finish knock off a few points for me, but this is a pretty nice "wet hop" beer.
Tried on 07 Dec 2007 at 18:50