Tamarack Brewing Company Hat Trick Hop IPA

Hat Trick Hop IPA

 

Tamarack Brewing Company in Lakeside, Montana, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
6.95
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 70 Ticks: 23
A trio perfectly blended hops packed (literally!) into the brew give this intensely flavorful beer incredibly bold aromas and moderately high bitterness. Balanced with caramel malt sweetness India Style Pale ales are copper in color and traditionally fortified with higher alcohol and lots of hops to preserve the beer for its long travels. Wonderfully big and bold hoppy flavors are a perfect pairing with spicy foods or for those looking for a beer to reward them with the complexity of flavors so relished by "hop head" beer lovers.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at the brewery, 8/24/24. Hazy amber, medium white head, average retention. Aroma of grapefruit, floral hops. Taste is rye, toast, piney hops, grapefruit. Lingering biitterness.

Tried on 11 Jan 2025 at 07:49


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Quite hazy golden and super copper and even bronze-tinted body with a thinnish, one to two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of dank, floral and almost skunky, resinous hops with a nice malt backbone, some subtle alcohol and a dash of sugar. Medium-bodied; Strong rich malty bite at first that has a bit of biscuits and a grassy and herbal funky with some light yeast and a dash of bread and flowers with a kick of citrus, grapefruit and alpha acids, all from the hops, towards the finish. Aftertaste shows some grass, hay, floral dryness and a touch of light citrus fruits with a more pungent hop note from the aforementioned than from anything citrusey or juicy. Overall, a nice and very crisp and dry, flower and grass-forward beer that shows it's hop character and alpha acids that way, which is nice and relatively 'old school'. I sampled this sixteen ounce pour on draught at GunSight Saloon in Columbia Falls, Montana on 27-July-2020 for US$5,00 after driving the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park with my family. 

Tried on 28 Jul 2020 at 15:48


7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

16 oz from a convenience store in Big Fork, MT. Aroma is biscuity malt, light pine, citrus--altogether kind of faint. Pours hazy golden with a long-lasting cream-white head that laces. Taste has a moderate pithy bitterness with some candy sweet malt character alongside. Somewhat soft carbonation. Slightly above average straightforward West Coast style IPA.

Tried from Can on 08 Aug 2019 at 03:49


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Tamarack, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma and flavour of earthy, fungal hops, with biscuity and bready malt to back. Creamy and earthy. Not my type of IPA really, but it's alright.

Tried from Draft on 30 May 2019 at 00:11


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and light malt flavor with light pine. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light pine linger.

Tried from Can on 12 Aug 2018 at 22:31


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

This brew pours a hazy amber color with a medium bone white head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Strings of lace. Aroma of citrus, herbal hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of grapefruit, mild hops and caramel malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a short hoppy aftertaste. Decent overall.

Tried on 07 May 2018 at 03:27


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap. Pours a hazy amber-orange with a medium, frothy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves plenty of lace. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, grapefruit, orange, peach and mango. Sweet flavour of caramel malt, orange, grapefruit, tangerine, peach, mango and light pine with a dry, bitter, hoppy finish. Medium body with an oily texture and average carbonation. Pretty decent.

Tried from Draft on 25 Jul 2017 at 23:29


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Can to pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy red/amber color with a one finger white foamy head that gently subsided leaving a soft speckled lacing evenly clinging around the glass.
The smell had a mild bitter citrus to piney hoppiness over top of a mild caramel aroma.
The taste combined the citrus and piney hops and balanced nicely over the caramel malts. Mild bittersweet combined aftertaste lead to a quick sweet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA, no date on the can but still do-able.

Tried from Can on 13 Mar 2015 at 19:20


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

16 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is solid grapefruity. Sweet, fruity and crisp hoppy. Bitter and lingering citrusy into the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Nov 2014 at 13:21


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

[ As Tamarack Hat Trick Hop IPA ].Clear medium to dark amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, mango, wood, light grapefruit. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet caramel, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140516]

Tried on 16 Oct 2014 at 07:10