Hammer Down
Kettlehead Brewing Company in Tilton, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.93
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Super Crisp Double IPA with Summer in mind. We combined a 4 hop blend to accentuate the lemon character out of each hop and giving us that sweet candied lemon flavor. Then, we added lemon zest to bring out the lemonade finish. Drinks like a shandy, super crushable. Hammer Down!
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can pour from Beer and Wine Nation. It's an opaque light brown-dark yellow with no sparkle, finger-width off-white head with fair retention and light ring of lacing. Aroma is strong lemon and lime. Taste is strong lemon-lime but a bit toward the astringent, industrial cleanser side with mild pepper heat. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with frothy texture, soft carbonation, no sign of alcohol, and finish as taste. Overall, not your run of the mill DIPA/DNEIPA. Margarita-esque but the lemon-lime, while strong, is on the industrial side, which is a bit much. Different, I'll give it that.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Nov 2021
at 01:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
4 ounce draft at the brewery. The flavor is pretty intense: lemon drop candy, citrus peel and a near mint finish. Lemon drop candy finish with mildly lingering herb. With that said, bitterness is low. Almost like a tea character. Different
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Oct 2021
at 23:53