Organic Hop Cuvee
Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Mendocino Brewing CompanyPale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.37
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West Coast Ale brewed with a blend of the season’s best organic hops, hand-selected by Bison’s brewmaster and owner, Dan Del Grande.
Like California sunshine in a bottle, Hop Cuvée radiates a golden hue with brilliant clarity and bright effervescence. It is a crisp, citrusy and tropical ale with a touch of pine-like bitterness and a clean, dry finish. Refreshing and sessionable, Hop Cuvée satisfies both hop lovers and craft beer newbies. (5.5% abv 50 IBUS).
Like California sunshine in a bottle, Hop Cuvée radiates a golden hue with brilliant clarity and bright effervescence. It is a crisp, citrusy and tropical ale with a touch of pine-like bitterness and a clean, dry finish. Refreshing and sessionable, Hop Cuvée satisfies both hop lovers and craft beer newbies. (5.5% abv 50 IBUS).
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours with a crystal clear blonde hued body with a retentive white head. Malty aroma, bready, toasty, biscuity and doughy, moderate esters with very fruity and citrusy hop notes, grainy, very light resins. Flavors are malty and grainy (a touch of sharp graininess), fruity and citrusy, low bitter. Malt character feels slightly old. Bitterness is light, but lingers a bit. Neutral to slightly bitter balance. Wish there was a freshness date. Medium-low body, slightly fuller carbonation. Nice and easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2013
at 23:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught @ Toronado, San Francisco, CA
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, orange and caramel. Taste is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, orange and caramel. Taste is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2013
at 07:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Toronado. It’s a lightly unclear one, dark golden in color, and with a small white head. The aroma is fruity and piney, quite peachy. Nor much maltyness going on. That goes for the flavour too. Pleasant flavor with peaches and generic tropical fruits. Some malty sweetness, and a suitable bitterness. Full to medium body men pleasant carbonation. Bitter and fruity finish. Tasteful. 130804
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2013
at 20:50
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle pours a clear gold with some spitty, white head. Nose is sweet, malt, some hop, pine, orange, dust. Flavor is sweet, straw, honey, orange, malt. Medium bodied, weak finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2013
at 08:50
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured a clear yellow-orange color with a small wispy head. Aroma with some light citrus notes, sweet light malts, some caramel. Flavor had sweet malts, caramel. Pretty good.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2013
at 19:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Gold pour with a thin white head. Much lacing. aroma is a little pine and a little citrus. Medium bodied, some pineyness, some citrus. Crisp finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2013
at 16:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours hazy yellow-amber with a foamy, off-white head. Orange-peel, tropical, scent. Creamy malt, tropical citrus, peppery/grassy hops. Smooth, mild, tasty. Nice constant bittering throughout.
Tried
on 19 Jun 2013
at 17:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom. Pours hazy gold with a slight white head. Aroma is a mix of floral/resin/citrus. Med body. Flavor is floral, citrus, resin. With a slight roast caramel background. It’s rather hoppy, and the malt is more restrained than many APAs. Finishes with dry, moderately intense hop flavors.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2013
at 16:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit flavor with malt and light dark malts. Medium bodied. Nice bitterness. Grapefruit and light dark malts linger.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 May 2013
at 13:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap at bier thirty pours out s straw yellow topped with a cream head. Aroma of citra hops, lots of floral and citrus notes and some bead malt. Taste more of the floral and light bitterness on the end.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Apr 2013
at 13:45