Hoptopia
Hermitage Brewing Company in San Jose, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.51
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Hoptopia is Hermitage Brewing Company’s flagship IPA. This amber colored beer has a great aroma that is a mixture of piney, citrus, and floral hop notes. This hop forward beer has a piney hop flavor, mixed in with some grapefruit-like character, and balanced by a toasted malt flavor with hints of caramel. Hoptopia is a well balanced IPA that is remarkably approachable and easy drinking.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream colored head. Grapefruit and light pine aroma. Grapefruit and light caramel flavor with light tropical fruit. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light tropical fruit lingers with light pine and light caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2010
at 13:08
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from the Natomas BevMo. Pours amber with a 4 finger foamy yellow/white head. Aroma is very grapefruit/citrus (sniffing the bottle - can’t get much from the huge head). Medium body with smooth mild carbonation. The flavor is grapefruit rind over light roast malt, but there’s a lot of florality. A lot. This stuff is very hoppy, but it’s not at all harsh. Let’s call this a UK Imperial ESB. It’s that good. Might kill the average Brit though. Oops. Brits are sturdy. Might kill the average Anglo/Franco/Saxon. Anybody take umbridge at that?
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2010
at 17:44