Ale of the IMP
Hermitage Brewing Company in San Jose, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.96
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stevoj (18137) reviewed Ale of the IMP from Hermitage Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Bottle Barn. Malty little bugger. They talk up the hops, but the malts dominate. Hops come in later with a bit of heat. Medium golden with small soft head. Slick, almost sticky.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tried in a bottle from Beers of Europe. Orange golden colour with a white head. Aroma pine, citrus, floral, and fruity big hop. Taste bitter, and oily soap. Thick oily body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
2nd February 2015
Earl of Essex. Keg. Mild haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, mild fine carbonation. Quite thin for the abv. Semi dry malts, some bitterish floralness. Tangy dried fruits. Light semi dry finish. For a DIPA this is pretty non descript, no thrust to what little hop there is. No off flavours though.
Garrold (11335) reviewed Ale of the IMP from Hermitage Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Hop Hideout, Sheffield. Hazy, pale amber. Film of sticky, white head. Fusty stuff, this. Mandarin. Peach stone. There’s some plum type fruit to it. Some pine. Sweet, grainy malts at the back. Taste is full on, piny bitter. Palate is oily, and carbonation is soft. Finishesostly big, long bitter, with a little sweetness on the lips. Slightly weird Toilet Duck thing going on, but I didn’t mind this.
Dogbrick (24152) reviewed Ale of the IMP from Hermitage Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at Tied House. Hazy amber color with a medium off-white head that dissipates steadily to a film. Small patches of lace. Hops, pine and malt in the nose. Medium body with flavors of resiny hops, grainy malt and slight citrus. The finish is moderately bitter with a spruce and hops aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark Hazy Orange, Huge Foamy Head, Lots Of Lacing. Aroma of Caraway. Taste of Malt, Caraway, Hop Bitter Finish. Only half way through for a brief moment there was s standard IPA taste of Grapefruit and Pine. Medium Buttery Body. Read Some reviews before trying it, so I was anticipating bitter hop bomb but it was not. Just about right for me. Savored and enjoyed it. Recommended...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Found at Kenwood Homer Glen with a $3.50 Sale tag. Okay, why not. Slight bit of skunk right under the cap, changing to a hoppy smell as foam peeks over the edge. Kicks up a lot of foam, even refrigerated. Smell is mostly citrusy with some pine, maybe a tropical fruit kick of Nelson Sauvin. Still plenty of foam in my IPA tulip. Looks cloudy and orangey under that big head, which settles down into some kind of fire extinguisher foam. Taste is back to strong malt and citrus, with a backbone of mucho hop bitterness. Kind of nice in a hophead sense, but way overly bitter. I feel like there’s no reward for finishing this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pour is a cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is plenty of pine hops with a sweet oily malt. Flavor is an ok hop profile with a lot of sweet chewy malts to back it up. Full sweet, sticky malts left after the swallow. No date on the bottle but deffinatly has some age on it. It’s ok but fresher is always better.
Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Ale of the IMP from Hermitage Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Ack. Not much to say here. Aroma and taste have weak hops notes, no real balance, no citrus, no pine, no anything worth remembering (04/2012). Rerated 12/12. Pours clear light amber, medium white head, nice lacing. Aroma is citrus, floral. Flavor is the same, bit of resin, little sweet, medium bitter. Light to medium body. Getting better, still harsh
fonefan (84235) reviewed Ale of the IMP from Hermitage Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 500ml.Light unclear medium to dark orange colour with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, dusty, light grass - flowers. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dry, dry bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110930]