Five Hop
Moa Brewing Company in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.58
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Tasting Notes
Moa Five Hop Winter Ale utilises pilsner, Vienna, Munich and crystal malts to produce a distinctive mouth feel and flavour. New Zealand grown B Saaz and Hallertau aroma hops are used to produce an ale with an extremely high bitterness. An English ale yeast completes this ‘Brewer’s Beer’. Moa Five Hop is a strong ale fermented at warm temperatures to maximise aromatic and floral aromas. The English ale yeast provides a low apparent attenuation and sweeter finish. Bottle conditioned, Moa Five Hop will age well. Moa Five Hop is best served at approximately 9-11˚C in a tulip glass.
Awards
Gold – Australian Intl. Beer Awards
Silver – Australian Intl. Beer Awards
Bronze – Brewing Industry Intl. Awards
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Gluepot (959) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 4 months ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 17
I don’t know how this gets to be an ESB, as noted here, or a winter ale, but I’m likin’ it. A pungent nose features a blended fruitiness , apricot, prune, biscuit malt and brown sugar. The body is a rich caramel colour with a slightly fizzy, short-lived head. The lead taste element is smooth caramel malt followed by slightly rindy citrus and tropical hops, berries, and hints of nuts and apricots. Add a slight boozy warmth and there are some shared characteristics with dark ales from the BrewDogs Abstrakt series. A solid density with a slick mouth feel. Finishes well with a balance of malt, hops, berries and apricot depth.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at the Gavel Cafe, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a hazy medium amber colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt, light citrus, grassy, resin hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a crisp, fruity, wet hop, light pepper spice, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A real hop fest and very drinkable.
explosivedog (14050) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500ml bottle. Pours amber red. Plum, biscuit, toffee, raisins, damson, apple. Medium body. Good.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at a cafe in Picton. A copper coloured pour with tight cream head; fresh floral aroma with a touch of pine; full-bodied with a sweet biscuity malt taste; and a well rounded bitterness. A rather good take on English ESB's.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle. Cloudy, orangey amber colour with average to huge, thick, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Dusty, grassy, unspecific fruity, hoppy aroma, cautious hints of dried apricot, kumquat, mandarine, mouldy blue grapes, mellow caramel malty background. Taste is grassy and citrusy fruity hoppy, caramel malty basis with a touch of toffee, hints of kumquat, mandarine, minimally chalky bitterness. Unbalanced, no harmony between malty basis and hoppy fruitiness. Not every classical style is automatically improved by bounteous hopping.
gnoff (11188) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500 ml bottle at the restaurant "Chophouse" in Sydney, on October 14, 2015.Clear brown color, off-white to tan head. Malty, light toasted, earthy hoppy scent. Herbal, floral, hoppy taste. Bitter aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Feels fairly dry and attenuated.
TedE (2767) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375ml bottle into tulip glass. Subdued sweet malt nose, pepper and hops in the background. Caramel sauce appearance with thin film of suds. Effervescent in the mouth, immediate hop hit. Finish is dry citric acid intensity and long. Really good beer but too bitter for a bitter (if you know what I mean).
Biruski (4902) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Earthy, rusty hops, with plenty of malt backbone to really prove its English roots. Finishes with a nice lingering bitterness.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
375ml bottle @ the 9th Shrewsbury Bottle Share Oct 14, courtesy of myself. Bought at Utobeer. Pours a hazy reddish amber with nice citrus aroma. Taste is citrussy with lemon, lime, grapefruit & gooseberries, smoothly presented and enjoyable. The most vibrant ESB I think I’ve ever had.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Five Hop from Moa Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cork and caged .375 litre bottle: cheers Mat for bringing this to the Oct 14 Shrewsbury bottle swap. Misty pour to the amber/orange body, the topping a beige affair that tried to hang around. Mixed bag of aromas and tastes, a kind of sweet and sour blend with grapefruit and malty molasses coming to the fore. I liked it, different and interesting.