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Hop Flood
Evil Twin Brewing
- From:
- Evil Twin Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 10.64%
- Reviews:
- 67
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 10, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 09, 2012
- Wants:
- 9
- Gots:
- 56
Amber IPA
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.99/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
It pours a dark cloudy brown .A foamy one inch off-white head forms and slowly dies to a film coating the top of the pint. Sticky lacing clings around the sides of the nonic. The smell has the hops up front with some light caramel and nuts coming more so in as the beer warms. The taste takes all of the previously mentioned flavors and adds a nice clean sweetness with a tinge of alcohol. The mouthfeel is about a medium with a nice smooth creaminess surrounding the mouth and tongue. This is moderately drinkable. Overall, I like this and would come back to it.
Jun 29, 2017Reviewed by Everydayoff from Thailand
3.98/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
12oz bottle poured into a pint glass.
Hazy deep chestnut amber hue with lots of sediment floating around, it tops with thick silky light brown head that very well retains itself with good retention before slowly subsiding to an everlasting fluffy crown and leaving some lacing on the glass-side.
Big maltiness in a nose with the array of caramel, toffee, toasted bread, molasses, brown sugar, and cracker. Hop provides its strength of tropical, citrus, grapefruit, herbal, and intense pine to balance.
The taste has good balance proportion between malt and hop. Malt takes the lead and acts as a base of the flavor structure with its caramel, toffee, toasted bread, molasses, brown sugar, and cracker while hop lends its strong pine, also citrus, grapefruit, herbal and solid bitterness through the taste buds. The end and aftertaste is pleasantly lingering with piney hop bitterness.
The body is medium to a bit full with some bold touch through the palate. The mouthfeel is quite smooth with some crisp and moderate lively carbonation, finish is dry.
Good amber ale with solid malt bill and plenty of hop character to make it crisp, tasty, and balance.
Mar 25, 2017Hazy deep chestnut amber hue with lots of sediment floating around, it tops with thick silky light brown head that very well retains itself with good retention before slowly subsiding to an everlasting fluffy crown and leaving some lacing on the glass-side.
Big maltiness in a nose with the array of caramel, toffee, toasted bread, molasses, brown sugar, and cracker. Hop provides its strength of tropical, citrus, grapefruit, herbal, and intense pine to balance.
The taste has good balance proportion between malt and hop. Malt takes the lead and acts as a base of the flavor structure with its caramel, toffee, toasted bread, molasses, brown sugar, and cracker while hop lends its strong pine, also citrus, grapefruit, herbal and solid bitterness through the taste buds. The end and aftertaste is pleasantly lingering with piney hop bitterness.
The body is medium to a bit full with some bold touch through the palate. The mouthfeel is quite smooth with some crisp and moderate lively carbonation, finish is dry.
Good amber ale with solid malt bill and plenty of hop character to make it crisp, tasty, and balance.
Reviewed by Act25 from New Jersey
4.02/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Outstanding, original, euro old styled amber ale. Red Ale was my first craft and this one amplifies the style.
A: Pours a muddy dark brown/amber color with an unending foamy, finger tall foamy beige head that lasts and laces mightily.
S: Among the sweetest, pine sap aromas, woody, and old in tone that I have sniffed. What I like about Arrogant Bastard I like about this. Followed by hops - orange, orange zest, herbs, and more pine. Bounded by syrupy caramel and toasted malts alongside the hop aromas.
T: Upfront there is a burst of wood, cedar, pine, with toasted and caramel malts pouring over a lovely, syrupy sweetness. Then develop aggressive stronger hops - cedar, orange, herbal, and lots of pine. Bitterness balances the sweetness.
M: Full bodied with moderate carbonation. Slightly crisp with bitter dryness in the finish.
O: Aggressive hops and bitterness. Reminds me of Arrogant Bastard and would like to blind taste against.
Aug 20, 2016A: Pours a muddy dark brown/amber color with an unending foamy, finger tall foamy beige head that lasts and laces mightily.
S: Among the sweetest, pine sap aromas, woody, and old in tone that I have sniffed. What I like about Arrogant Bastard I like about this. Followed by hops - orange, orange zest, herbs, and more pine. Bounded by syrupy caramel and toasted malts alongside the hop aromas.
T: Upfront there is a burst of wood, cedar, pine, with toasted and caramel malts pouring over a lovely, syrupy sweetness. Then develop aggressive stronger hops - cedar, orange, herbal, and lots of pine. Bitterness balances the sweetness.
M: Full bodied with moderate carbonation. Slightly crisp with bitter dryness in the finish.
O: Aggressive hops and bitterness. Reminds me of Arrogant Bastard and would like to blind taste against.
Reviewed by LuckyJohn from Colorado
3.99/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours with a cloudy, dark, rich caramel color with a creamy medium head. The aroma is light with a notable hop presence. I actually expected something more in this area. Tastes great though. It has a more raw, bitter hoppieness and a solid, sweet maltiness to balance it out. I quite like it as a beer to be sipped and savored. Mouth feel is medium with a moderate carbonation. It finishes a little bitter with malt flavors lingering longer than the hops.
Jun 14, 2016Rated by Shradical from Virginia
3.25/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Cloudy unfilitered dark copper/amber color, sweet hop scent. Obviously pretty damn hoppy for an amber, almost tastes like an imperial IPA
May 17, 2016Reviewed by rex_4539 from Greece
4.45/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
L: Very dark amber color, one finger head, light carbonation.
S: Smells nice and sweet, kind of trademark of all Eviltwin beers I tried so far.
T: Really good taste. Hoppy, yet sweet. Heaven :)
F: Quite drinkable besides 7% ABV, could even session this one.
O: Once again, nicely surprised by Eviltwin Brewing. Great amber ale that I would more than happily drink on every occasion.
May 06, 2016S: Smells nice and sweet, kind of trademark of all Eviltwin beers I tried so far.
T: Really good taste. Hoppy, yet sweet. Heaven :)
F: Quite drinkable besides 7% ABV, could even session this one.
O: Once again, nicely surprised by Eviltwin Brewing. Great amber ale that I would more than happily drink on every occasion.
Hop Flood from Evil Twin Brewing
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
420 ratings
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