Hoptimum (2025)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Series|
Score
7.68
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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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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. It's been many years since I've had this and was pleased to find it. Nose is orange, floral, hint of sherbet, touch of resin.
Taste is big resin, pine, sweet malt, touch of bitter honey, faintly floral note, sweet resin, and a drier than you would think finish.
Really nice to have a pine bomb again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home, from HOTM online, 13/06/2025.
Clear golden amber topped with a lasting creamy beige head.
Nose is bitter orange, caramel malts, pine resin, grapefruit zest.
Taste comprises sweet malts, pine resin, grass, caramel, mango, grapefruit.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy come resinous hop bitterness allied to a balanced rising boost.
Runs a touch sweet but a decent old skool DIPA.
gave a cheers!