Hoptimum (2025)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Series|
Score
7.68
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Hops: Chinook, Idaho 7, Jackson, Magnum, and Simcoe.
Fancy seeing me here! After all, the place can hardly hold 11% — I’m scraping the rafters. Makes for a good view, and it’s clear when a room needs what I’ve got in spades: fruity, dank, and devilishly hoppy flavor. Your night is looking up. Savor it and don’t blink because I like to vanish in a puff of lupulin dust.
Fancy seeing me here! After all, the place can hardly hold 11% — I’m scraping the rafters. Makes for a good view, and it’s clear when a room needs what I’ve got in spades: fruity, dank, and devilishly hoppy flavor. Your night is looking up. Savor it and don’t blink because I like to vanish in a puff of lupulin dust.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Utseende: Gulbrun.
Lukt: Citrus, honning, karamell.
Smak: Citrus, honning, karamell avslutning.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum.
Medium: Rating:8-8-8-8-8=8, Bottle@330ml, ABV@11%, Når@2026.03.06.
Hvor: Kjøpt@VP Klepp, Nydt@hjemme
Navn: Hoptimum (2025)
Stil: IPA - TRIPLE
Bryggeri: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Lukt: Citrus, honning, karamell.
Smak: Citrus, honning, karamell avslutning.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum.
Medium: Rating:8-8-8-8-8=8, Bottle@330ml, ABV@11%, Når@2026.03.06.
Hvor: Kjøpt@VP Klepp, Nydt@hjemme
Navn: Hoptimum (2025)
Stil: IPA - TRIPLE
Bryggeri: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Tried
from Bottle
from
Vinmonopolet Klepp
on 06 Mar 2026
at 17:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Nagy, tartós, hófehér hab, borostyán szín. Füves, fűszeres, malátás illat. Édeskés, fűszeres, fenyős, füves, malátás íz, némi gyümölcsösséggel. Testes, enyhén szénsavas, erősen keserű. Szépen kiegyensúlyozott, finom sör.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2025
at 19:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bought locally. Packaged April 24th 2025.
Beautiful pour, clear gold, over an inch of foam, good retention and lacing.
Smell is hoppy to the max, some definite alcohol aromas, caramel malt that sweetens it up, some dankness.
Taste is uber hoppy, dank, citrus, some minor sweetness, hint of pine, big alcohol kick. Yow.
Full bodied, pretty high carbonation, it's a triple IPA. Not my favourite style but I do dig this.
Beautiful pour, clear gold, over an inch of foam, good retention and lacing.
Smell is hoppy to the max, some definite alcohol aromas, caramel malt that sweetens it up, some dankness.
Taste is uber hoppy, dank, citrus, some minor sweetness, hint of pine, big alcohol kick. Yow.
Full bodied, pretty high carbonation, it's a triple IPA. Not my favourite style but I do dig this.
Tried
on 13 Aug 2025
at 23:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled 4/2/25, drunk 8/4/25.
Clear as day, light amber-bronze. Medium-sized, off-white head.
Resin and caramel! I don't know why I'm surprised but it's just been so long. I avoid old school DIPAs like the plague. Some wood, tea, vanilla, black tea and PINE. And caramel. Not boozey, though.
Pine resin and balancing caramel. Sweet and bitter. Love it! It's been so long since I've had this nasty style that it tastes novel and enjoyable. Orange, tea, wood, white bread and caramel. It is balanced from all the sweet white bread and caramel. Pine and orange linger. It does seem more balanced than in the days of old. Still has that hop stink/sweat earthiness. Fun. Would probably not want to drink this too many more times. A few times every decade.
Clear as day, light amber-bronze. Medium-sized, off-white head.
Resin and caramel! I don't know why I'm surprised but it's just been so long. I avoid old school DIPAs like the plague. Some wood, tea, vanilla, black tea and PINE. And caramel. Not boozey, though.
Pine resin and balancing caramel. Sweet and bitter. Love it! It's been so long since I've had this nasty style that it tastes novel and enjoyable. Orange, tea, wood, white bread and caramel. It is balanced from all the sweet white bread and caramel. Pine and orange linger. It does seem more balanced than in the days of old. Still has that hop stink/sweat earthiness. Fun. Would probably not want to drink this too many more times. A few times every decade.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Julio’s Liquors
on 05 Aug 2025
at 00:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thick foamy white head on a marmalade coloured body.
Pine, resinous & marmalade aroma.
Medium to full bodied, nicely carbonated with thick cloying back.
Pine, stewed fruit, orange, resinous & dank tastes with an extremely bitter finish.
Extreme, old school & top drawer beer - They don't make many beers like this anymore.
Pine, resinous & marmalade aroma.
Medium to full bodied, nicely carbonated with thick cloying back.
Pine, stewed fruit, orange, resinous & dank tastes with an extremely bitter finish.
Extreme, old school & top drawer beer - They don't make many beers like this anymore.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2025
at 21:09
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
12 ounce bottle from Woodman's Menominee Falls. 7/30/25. Clear amber, medium tan head, average retention. Looks nice. Aroma of dank, melon, dry tropical fruits. Taste is grapefruit, dank, melon, hints of tropical fruit. Strong bitterness, Nice, nice, nice. Love the bitter. Can't get enough!
Tried
from Bottle
from
Woodman’s Foods - Menomonee Falls
on 30 Jul 2025
at 05:13
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at home, 24th July 25. Pours clear and dark golden. Aroma is pine and resin pithy citrus. Taste is pithy, bitter, marmalade, pine and resin, bittersweet linger - still rocking it old school
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2025
at 11:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
19th July 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear gold beer, very small and very drinkable lived off white head. Light palate, semi dry, good fine carbonation. Smooth malts, a very fine grainy sweetness, suits this brew. The old school hops provide some old school bitterness. A little soft pine in there. Ripe citrus and bitterish marmalade, touch of ripe lemon. Light finish. Drinks pretty easy for it's abv and in this particular case, the old school character was a very welcome change.
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear gold beer, very small and very drinkable lived off white head. Light palate, semi dry, good fine carbonation. Smooth malts, a very fine grainy sweetness, suits this brew. The old school hops provide some old school bitterness. A little soft pine in there. Ripe citrus and bitterish marmalade, touch of ripe lemon. Light finish. Drinks pretty easy for it's abv and in this particular case, the old school character was a very welcome change.
Tried
on 19 Jul 2025
at 13:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Golden yellow with small head. Dank pine, pine, and more pine, grapefuit peel, and caramel malt aroma. Very sweet orange, peach, biscuit malt, and very strong bitter/dank pine and grapefruit peel flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2025
at 03:37
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
0.355 l bottle from 'Beyond Beer', bottled in April 2025. Almost clear, orangeish amber with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, white head. Sweetish, fairly resiny, gently fruity aroma of lots of pine, tobacco, grapefruit and mango. Quite sweet, gently bitter, very resiny and gently fruity taste of massive pine, grapefruit, tobacco, orange jam, mango and orange liqueur, followed by a long, quite bitter, gently boozy finish. Full body, smooth and slightly creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Heavy stuff, but I really dig it, same procedure as every year.
Tried
from Bottle
from Beyond Beer
on 11 Jul 2025
at 17:59