Ārpus Brewing Co. DDH Hopheart IPA

DDH Hopheart IPA

 

Ārpus Brewing Co. in Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia 🇱🇻

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
6.99
ABV: 6.2% IBU: 59 Ticks: 32
This beer combines the best traditions of our brewery. We completed the barley, wheat and oat malt base with three different hops: Vic Secret, Mosaic and Galaxy and fermented it with the best yeast from White Labs laboratory. Creamy and juicy IPA with a pleasant wild grape aroma and intense citrusy flavor will not leave any New England IPA lover indifferent!
 

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Hazy yellow orange color with medium white head. Aroma of oranges, tangerines, passion fruits, pineapples. Taste is hop centered with tropical fruits, tangerines, oranges, pineapples, zest.

Tried from Draft from Drinkøtéka on 10 Jan 2026 at 15:40


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

One of countless hazy IPAs by this familiar and trusted Latvian craft brewery, now hopped with Vic Secret, Mosaic and Galaxy; can from the Albert Heijn supermarket in the Arteveldestadion in Ghent. Foamy, inches thick, egg-white, dense, creamy, 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, rocky head gradually thinning and eventually breaking, on a cloudy yellow blonde robe with apricot tinge - almost opaque, but not murky. Predictable but still beguiling aroma of lime zest, a blossoming mandarin orchard, fresh lemongrass, granadilla, green guava, papaya, honeydew, cucumber peel, freshly cut green bell pepper, meringue, mangosteen, fresh cake dough, celery salt, diesel. Aromatically sweet-fruity onset, all from hops of course as usual in this style, a wave of papaya, mandarin blossoms, pomelo, lychee, guava and mangosteen, prickly carbonated but with very small bubbles so still feeling creamy; fresh lemon cake dough-y 'soil' drenched in a huge aromatic, tropical hoppiness, adding granadilla and lemongrass to all the guava, papaya and pomelo - retronasally at least, where a hint of sweaty dankness also appears. Its bitterness remains refinedly citrusy and does not disturb the sweet aromatics at all, in fact it only complements them, penetrating the malts - including soapy wheat and velvety oats - to their core, as it ought to be. I am far from the world's most avid NEIPA fan - in fact I already grew tired of their overkill years ago - but this does not leave me completely indifferent, to answer the brewery's statement; especially the fact that I can obtain these beers from a fifteen minutes car ride to a supermarket nearby still baffles me, if I look back at what the beer world has become in the quarter of a century in which I have been following it closely.

Tried on 11 Oct 2025 at 23:39


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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at Schiphol, picked up at Albert Hinds, after cancelled flight, sat outside the terminal building, 13th June 25. This was a reasonable IPA, straight from the can

Tried from Can on 14 Jul 2025 at 19:43


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bière dégustée chez Nisha à Kaunas. Robe trouble, jaune pâle, avec une mousse fine, crémeuse, irrégulière, blanc cassé. Bonne tenue, trace joliment les parois du verre. Nez expressif, sur la levure et un côté fruité, caramel léger. En bouche, fruits tropicaux à profusion, mangue, pêche. Attaque douce, légèrement sucrée et belle amertume, pointe herbacée. Très bonne!

Tried on 25 Jun 2025 at 12:54


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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can. Poured a hazy yellow golden colour with a big, mostly lasting fizzy white head and lots of bubbles. The aroma is yeasty, herbal, light floral, vinous. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter, with a smooth, creamy, fresh, juicy lemon citrus, light herbal, vinous, light hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with lively carbonation. A little too sweet.

Tried from Can on 19 May 2025 at 21:52


7

Tried on 09 Jan 2025 at 18:37


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can (from Alko web). Hazy yellowish golden colour, small white foamy head. Aroma is floral, some fruity floral and mild nectary tones with some toffee tones. Flavour is floral, and floral with some nectary tones.

Tried from Can on 07 Dec 2024 at 23:53


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can 440ml (PET sessions)
Hazy yellow colours, not much head. Pineapple, riped fruits in the nose. Medium-bodied. Pineapple, some citrus. OK NEIPA.

Tried from Can on 07 Dec 2024 at 23:44


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

A light yellow and murky beer, a head is medium and white. Aroma has grapefruit, other citrus, some green notes. Taste has citrus and grapefruit, also green stuff. Medium bodied. Unfortunately, green notes.

Tried on 29 Sep 2024 at 09:48


9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

14/VII/24 - 44cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB:XII/2024 (2024-548)

Cloudy pal light yellow beige beer, big fluffy creamy irregular off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice, sweet, malty, caramel, very fruity, lots of tropical fruits, juicy, lovely, a hint of mango, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet start, good bitterness, very fruity, caramel malts, tropical fruits, juicy, hoppy, a bit resinous. Aftertaste: some alcohol, or is that a slight hop burn I’m getting maybe? A bit sugary, a little dank, very fruity, peaches, mango, lovely, I really like it!

Tried from Can from Dranken Geers on 14 Jul 2024 at 20:00