Evergreen
Hop Hooligans in Jilava, București - Ilfov, Romania 🇷🇴
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.78
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Big forest vibes from the spruce tips added at whirlpool (thanks for sending some over @beretatm ) on top of a full-on, heavily C-hopped Westcoast IPA, with a lot of bittersweet pine resin, tons of grapefruit, marmalade and an old school, sharp, bitter bite.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can at home, koszi Kini! Pours opaque copper with an off-white head. Nose is pine, and frankly I cant tell the hops and spruce apart, it might be any of those. It also showed fruity and honey characteristics, but rather vaguely. (Senki nem fogja ezt erteni, de nagyon hasonlit az illata a First alap IPAjahoz, csak ertelemszeruen kellemesebb annal. Mindenesetre erdekes.) Taste is much less bitter than expected, showing notes of spruce and resin, this latter rather vaguely. There’s also floral notes, some honey and earthy-herbal bitterness. Closes with a bittersweet finish, it has a light to medium body and soft(er than expected) carbonation. What I expected was a full-on west coast madness enhanced by the spruce tips, but this is rather an old school English IPA with some piny character. Not quite what I thought it was gonna be, but a decent beer nevertheless.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Craigs. Pours clear orange, nose is herbal, grassy, musty, taste is sweet, lemon, floral, peach.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2018
at 07:50
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home .. copper ... small white head ... soft toffee fruit nose ... oily toffee fruit malts .. soft toffee fruits .. sweet woody malts ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2018
at 19:26
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Craig's. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Pine and resin aromas. Taste is light sweet, citrus. Bitter sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2018
at 19:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear burnished amber pour with a bubbly off white head, aroma has pine and sweet malts, taste has sweet malts, pine needles, slight mouthwash , citrus action, quite bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2018
at 16:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Semi-hazy amber pour with a light beige head. Notes of caramel, sweet resin, herbal hops, light caramelized fruit. Smooth texture, soft carbonation. Easy drinking.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2017
at 11:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
BOTTLE 33 CL. Clear deep amber, rocky off-white head. Smells of sweet sugar glazed citrus, some pine and zest - not sure if those are hops or the spruce tips. The taste starts with somewhat plain caramel sweetness, followed by soft and piney bitterness - the spruce is much more evident here. Overall, a nice sweet and piney ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2017
at 12:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thank you kermis! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. Golden orange. Nose is nice low dank herbal hop. Oily basic pine, herbal, citrus, low biscuit malt. Pleasant easy drinking hop oil. Spruce Tip’s probably add the pine oil characters on top of everything else. Not bad & pleasant surprise coming from Romania.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2017
at 06:32
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2017
at 20:58
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Hop Hooligans Evergreen (by Hop Hooligans):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
3/XII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Billies Craft Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2017-2179) Thanks to the Belgian, Dutch and German ratebeerians for sharing today's beers! Thanks to Kermis for sharing this bottle!
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lovely smell, lots of tropical fruits, pineapple, good stuff. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: too sweet, malty, grains, some citrus, very fruity. Aftertaste: sweet, caramel malts, soft bitterness, somewhat sweet.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
3/XII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Billies Craft Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2017-2179) Thanks to the Belgian, Dutch and German ratebeerians for sharing today's beers! Thanks to Kermis for sharing this bottle!
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lovely smell, lots of tropical fruits, pineapple, good stuff. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: too sweet, malty, grains, some citrus, very fruity. Aftertaste: sweet, caramel malts, soft bitterness, somewhat sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2017
at 19:03