HopTop Brewery

Microbrewery in Budapest, Capital City of Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2015

Contact
Maglódi út 47, Budapest, 1106, Hungary
Description
The HopTop Brewery Ltd. was formed in the fall of 2015 to create various high quality craft beers for the increasing number of beer lovers. As it so happens, our brewery is located in the former Royal Brewery plant, so we can return a little bit of tradition to this area.

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8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared at work, courtesy of the HT crew. Pours reddish copper with no head. Nose is sweet notes of alcohol, caramel, malts and slightly acidic and tart raspberry. Taste is also a mix of sweet and tart, sweetness deriving from the booze, bready and nutty malts and the raspberry provides a pleasantly tart and acidic balance. Nicely balanced, the body is big enough and the carbonation is soft. Well made.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:57


6.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 5.5

Straight out the can. Meglepoen keves porkolt malatas karakter jon, egy laza malatasabb becsi inkabb vakon. Picit femes a korty vege, amugy rendben van.

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:57


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap at BPBW, session one. Beautiful, intense barrel character dominate both the aroma and taste, the maple is very out there and it works nicely, bourbon’s coming through too. The body is a bit thin, but the barrels do make me forget about it.

Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:54


7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap at BPBW, session one. Az egyes szamu verziohoz hasonloan a test itt is hagy nemi kivannivalot maga utan, raadasul azzal szemben itt meg a hordozas sem bomba annyira, hogy karpotoljon csereben. Mindenesetre igeretes probalkozas ez is.

Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:54


7.1
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at the Hori taproom a while back. Nem keszitettem jegyzeteket, csak pontoztam a sort.

Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:54


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared at home, couetesy of the HT crew perhaps? Cellared this for a year. Pours jet black with no head. Nose is chocolate, whiskey notes, some vanilla, booze. Taste is sweet, lactosey (or so I thought, but apparently there’s none in this?), boozy. It’s got chocolate, nuts, whiskey and molasses going on. It’s on the sweet side, not very layered. Medium to big bodied with barely any carbonation. Tasty, but rather one dimensional.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:53


6.1
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 4.5

Can shared at home, probably courtesy of the HT crew. Elkepesztoen suru(nek hat), de inkabb szirupos mint testes, a karbonacio literalisan 0, izkomplexitas szinten ehhez konvergal, nagyon nehez inni.

Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2025 at 09:05


7.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Pours deep, hazy golden with everlasting white head. Apart from the usual witbier aroma it has some grassy overtone with additional herbs and slightly some hops also appear. The taste is just like the aroma with the witbier notes, hops and grass/herbs. Short bitter finish, lively carbonation, light body. Interesting conception with the beer being somewhere between witbier and wheat ale, but works for me.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2025 at 06:00


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Pours black with beige head that disappears quickly. Coffe and roasted malts dominate in aroma and taste, with some slight hoppy bitter and bread/biscuits notes. The creamy mouthfeel is quite pleasant and combined with the soft carbonation and light body, make it easily drinkable. Speaking of the light body, it’s a bit too light, could be more full-bodied because this way it feels slightly watery. Not bad, but there’s room for improvement.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2025 at 05:59


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap. It has the usual fruity-flowery notes in taste but somehow not coherent enough. Moreover, it has a slight, barely noteable aroma. Painfully mediocre.

Tried from Draft on 05 Mar 2025 at 05:59