Hop Zombie Blood Imperial
Odyssey Brew Co in Whitbourne, Herefordshire, England 🏴
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.08
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Keg at Barbridge, Stourbridge. Pours hazy dark orange with a small head. Aroma is caramel and burnt mango. Taste has lots of blood orange to start and a floral hop finish.
McCash (16153) reviewed Hop Zombie Blood Imperial from Odyssey Brew Co 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - dark brown to black. Nice fluffy head. Nose - oranges and resin. Apricot going into marmalade. Taste - more marmalade but creamy rather than tangy. Resin again. Palate - close to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - good beer. Doesn’t taste 9.2%.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Appellation Wines, Dalry Road. Pours hazy golden amber with a thin white head. Aromas of dank hops, pine, caramel. Taste is gnarly, bittersweet. Oily texture, bitter finish. Easy drinking for the strength.
Garrold (11502) reviewed Hop Zombie Blood Imperial from Odyssey Brew Co 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Beer Central, Sheffield. Mucky, dark red. No head. I like Fin’s "floor polish" description for this. Dank and spicy and resinous. Missus gets brown butter? She’s probably drinking it too fast. Taste is sweet and spicy bitter. Full and smooth mouthfeel. Never feels 9.2% though. Spicy bitter finish. Ok. Doesn’t sing like I’d hoped.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
21st December 2016
Hazy deep red - amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, modest fine carbonation. Sweetish malts, light cream and tangy caramel. Touch of milky sweetness. Bitter marmalade and bitter floralness. Light semi dry finish. Flavoursome but there is some awkward edges to this one.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle from The Beerhive. Murky ruby/brown body with a faint off-white film that fades almost instantly. Aroma of pine, caramel and overripe mango. Flavour of strawberry syrup, sweet tangerine and a hint of hop spice. Medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. In a blind tasting I’d put this at around 6.5% ABV - it drinks really well for the strength. It didn’t look particularly appealing when poured, but this is yet another delicious hoppy treat from this top brewery.
Fin (18516) reviewed Hop Zombie Blood Imperial from Odyssey Brew Co 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle picked up from Beer Revolution, Hay on Wye, Powys consumed at Isobels, Eardisley, Herefordshire, Friday 23rd December 2016 Hazy dark amber with a white filmy head and rim of bubbles. Hoppy with an aroma that reminds me a little bit of floor polish on an old wooden floor. Another really great beer, its really, really good, if I was being critical it is a touch sweet but this doesn’t temper my enjoyment one bit. Lovely soft carbonation, it’s a big hoppy brute of a beer, if this was from a trendy big city brewery everyone would be raving about it, as it is just a few of us thus far are flag waving for these guys. In the words of a friend of mine, I could drink this till my eyes bleed, wonderful. A little bit of late heat from the alcohol but this is a well balanced bittersweet beers with a nice resin edge. A7 A3 T9 P5 Ov17 4.1