Hopalaa! Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Vītoliņi,
Semigallia,
Latvia 🇱🇻
Associated Venue: Hopalaa Craft Brewery
Established in 2018
Contact
Description
HOPALAA! – a small Latvian brewery, whose founders first started brewing beer at home. Previously known as: "Kalēju alus" marked on bottles as "Fermentum SIA".
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Hazy, yellow-ish, bright golden colour with small to average, frothy, slowly diminishing, minimally lacing, white head. Juicy, tropical fruity and minimally citrusy fruity, hoppy aroma, sweet-ish, minimally sugary, wheaty malty background, notes of melon, lychee, some passion fruit, a touch of white grapes, kiwi fruit, grassy undertones. Taste is sweet-ish, minimally sugary, wheaty malty and tropical fruity hoppy, notes of melon, some kiwi fruit, mandarine, mango, passion fruit, lychee, mild hop bitterness, a minimally alcoholic touch.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, minimally dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
Intensely hoppy, a tad heterogeneous - decent.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, minimally dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
Intensely hoppy, a tad heterogeneous - decent.
Tried
from Can
from
Pakhuis Twente
on 02 May 2025
at 01:52
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Smell-weak hops, malt, resin, burned sugar.
Foam-thin, hops, weak resin, bitter tones. The head is medium to large, white in color, with a slight yellow tint.
Appearance- nice simple, unique spirally can. Cloudy orange, yellow in color, with a few carbonation bubbles.
From - pint
Taste - malt, hops, bitter tones, faint resin, faint orange, faint orange, not as sweet as some others, but overall nothing spectacular.
Foam-thin, hops, weak resin, bitter tones. The head is medium to large, white in color, with a slight yellow tint.
Appearance- nice simple, unique spirally can. Cloudy orange, yellow in color, with a few carbonation bubbles.
From - pint
Taste - malt, hops, bitter tones, faint resin, faint orange, faint orange, not as sweet as some others, but overall nothing spectacular.
Tried
from Can
from
Lauvas alus
on 24 Apr 2025
at 15:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Smell-weak fruits, hops, faint citrus.
Foam-thin fruits, weak hops, weak bitter tones. Head is large, white, with a yellow tint.
Appearance- simple abstract, unique label. Cloudy yellow-orange in color, medium carbonation.
From - pint
Taste - weak hops, fruits, citrus, sweetness. Nice sweetish hazy one, slight mango and orange tones. Refreshing.
Foam-thin fruits, weak hops, weak bitter tones. Head is large, white, with a yellow tint.
Appearance- simple abstract, unique label. Cloudy yellow-orange in color, medium carbonation.
From - pint
Taste - weak hops, fruits, citrus, sweetness. Nice sweetish hazy one, slight mango and orange tones. Refreshing.
Tried
from Can
from
Lauvas alus
on 24 Apr 2025
at 14:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at PBF 2025. Murky yellow body, off-white head. Lightly funky citric and resinous, bitterish-herbal aroma. Same taste really, quite dry, citric, resinous, mildly "funky" and bitterish. This is quite good really, especially for the ABV! The body is spot on really!
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Apr 2025
at 13:50
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tap at PBF 2025. Murky yellow body, off-white head. Sweetish aroma - lychee and citric hoppy notes. Sweetish taste, if lean, more lychee/tropical/grape and citric hoppy notes, fine enough!
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Apr 2025
at 13:48
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tap at Prague Beer Fest 2025. Got distracted heavily while rating this one, my notes claim as I started rating it to finishing it I didn't know what it was, suspecting the Americans, but the logical order says Latvians and no American ones match, and it does say "hopq smoothie" which I can only deduct is this one. To be rerated. Murky orange body. Mostly got banana-like and citric notes out of it, which actually matches the citric vibes, maybe a bit "old banana", tropical in any case. Wha?
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Apr 2025
at 15:28
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tap at Prague Beer Fest 2025. Murky yellow, lost the off-white head fairly soon. Yellow fruit in force, somewhat minerally. Sweet soft malty backbone, more yellow fruit - grapes, bit tropical, quite okay.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Apr 2025
at 16:36
7/10
Tried
on 12 Apr 2025
at 20:50
8/10
Хоппа!
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Apr 2025
at 21:21
6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Can. Hazy yellow colot with medium white head. Fruity hoppy aroma with pineapples, mango, oranges, but also apricots, light zest. Taste sweet with orange, tangerines, apricots compote. Aroma is far better than taste.
Tried
from Draft
at
100 pív
on 08 Apr 2025
at 16:39