Hop Mountain

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled 6/6/2012. Pours hazy orange copper color with a 1 finger dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of grapefruit, orange peel, herbal, floral, caramel, mango, bread, toast, and light piney spiciness. Nice aromas with good strength and balance. Taste of orange zest, grapefruit, herbal, caramel, bread, floral, pine, and light herbal spiciness. Fair amount of citrus bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, floral, bread, herbal, pine, caramel, and herbal spiciness on the finish for a bit. Nice complexity of hop flavors; with a great bitterness/sweetness balance. Zero cloying flavors present after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a creamy, lightly sticky, and lightly crisp mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very nice pale ale. Very good flavor balance, and very smooth to drink. Very enjoyable offering; exceeded my expectations given the bottle dating.

Bottle at home, 6.1 abv. 19th October 2012. Pours a clear amber colour and a big soft head. Smell is sweet and malt with some biscuit hops, taste is hop sweet, quite sticky, not bad

Pours clear gold with a tall, long-lasting, off-white head. Sweet malt aroma, warm bread, honey. The flavor is slightly sweet with a long dry finish. OK Pale Ale.

Bottle from @cotteridgewines why am I drawn to beers that have hop in the name or label this has both! Pour dark amber with small off white head. Citrus, piney hops one the aroma. Can’t taste the hops as much as the smell, more sweet malts in the foreground. Nice ale. --- Beer merged from original tick of Hop Mountain on 16 Sep 2012 at 18:36 - Score: 6. Original review text: More hops in the aroma than taste from @cotteridgewines

355ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a medium head. Aroma is banana, orange squash and toffee malt. Taste is mostly toffee malt with a medium bitter finish. A little sweet. Drinkable, nothing special.

Bottle at home - 08/06/12. Slightly hazed orange/copper colour with a medium cream coloured head. Sweet malt nose, diacetyl whiff, sugar, grain. Sweet malt taste allied to a little fruit flavour and a very faint apperance of something citrusy! Medium bodied with a decent/moderate level of carbonation.

Bottle. Pours clear amber with off white head. Nose/taste of earth and grass, resin and malt. Medium body. Dry abrasive finish.

Bottle clear golden color, medium white head. Aroma of pine and grass taste is mildly bitter and light.

Pours medium amber with a frothy peachy head. Smells of light fruit, bread, and copper. Tastes of citrus fruit, malt, and has a metallic finish.

Ganked from my brother: Pours a pretty orange brown color with a nice off-white and long-lasting head. Aroma is not that powerful and I notice the caramel notes before anything else. However, the taste is very well-balanced. No reason to call this a hop mountain, but there is a sufficient amount of hoppy bitterness, but it is the malt backbone that makes this beer for me. Very good balance and very good body. Better than I expected this jawn to be.