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Hop Plunge
El Segundo Brewing Company
- From:
- El Segundo Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #1,509 - ABV:
- 8.9%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #10,066 - Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 8.19%
- Reviews:
- 17
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 31, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 07, 2016
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 7
No description / notes.
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Ratings by 2beerdogs:
Reviewed by 2beerdogs from California
3.54/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Clear shiny new penny brassy copper. Sliky half finger of head after it retreats from the 2+ fingers that pumped up from the initial pour.
Smell is a bit generically tropical, hint of grapefruit, and some ever so slight pepper comes though.
Taste is more muted. Malt plays along. The hops are toned down from the nose. Understated mango, dry stone fruit (like apricot), and ever so slight lemon with pepper.
Mouthfeel is full enough for my DIPA tastes.
May 28, 2016Smell is a bit generically tropical, hint of grapefruit, and some ever so slight pepper comes though.
Taste is more muted. Malt plays along. The hops are toned down from the nose. Understated mango, dry stone fruit (like apricot), and ever so slight lemon with pepper.
Mouthfeel is full enough for my DIPA tastes.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by RaulMondesi from California
3.79/5 rDev -6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Hop Plunge isn’t like taking one - because I actually want it. Can’t say I care for this polo stuff though (water or horse), but I won’t let that hold me back. The beer is ok. It reminds me of this girl on the swim team that was pretty saucy, but there was just something there that kept Raul away from anointing her with the other “top hotties.” Maybe it was the 6th toe, I don’t know. So yeah, good beer, but I wouldn’t break a stag date with the boys to buy it supper.
Jul 31, 2023Reviewed by Eamonn-Cummings3 from New York
4.33/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a 22oz bottle into a speiglau IPA glass.
Look is a clear amber with a frothy white head.
Aroma is lots of sweet orange blossom honey.
Taste is a floral orange with a slight honey sweetness at the end.
Jul 04, 2017Look is a clear amber with a frothy white head.
Aroma is lots of sweet orange blossom honey.
Taste is a floral orange with a slight honey sweetness at the end.
Reviewed by snaotheus from Washington
4.37/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.37/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2017-06-22
22oz bottle served in a tulip. Labeled 052417.
Pours a hazy light amber/yellow. Head is large, persistent, and supported by a lot of fine, slow carbonation. Smell is kind of great. Citrus and pine and pineapple in abundance and in appetizing proportions.
Taste is also very good -- much of the same, but a little bit more muted than I would really prefer. Very strong bitter finish, other flavors also last a long time and thread nicely together as it fades.
Mouthfeel is light and thick, a little fluffy (a characteristic I usually really enjoy). Overall, this is a really good beer.
Jun 23, 201722oz bottle served in a tulip. Labeled 052417.
Pours a hazy light amber/yellow. Head is large, persistent, and supported by a lot of fine, slow carbonation. Smell is kind of great. Citrus and pine and pineapple in abundance and in appetizing proportions.
Taste is also very good -- much of the same, but a little bit more muted than I would really prefer. Very strong bitter finish, other flavors also last a long time and thread nicely together as it fades.
Mouthfeel is light and thick, a little fluffy (a characteristic I usually really enjoy). Overall, this is a really good beer.
Reviewed by CJNAPS from California
3.77/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Delicious DIPA, Nice bitter citrus taste normal for a west coast ipa. Nice deep golden color. It's easy drinking, and hide it's 8.9% really well. Haven't had a bad from them yet. Would revisit.
May 13, 2017Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.49/5 rDev -13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.49/5 rDev -13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Clear amber with lots of foam in the tall goblet. Quite hot with alcohol. Some aromatics waft up on the fumes-- peach and dried apricot. Rather thin bodied for what must be a load of malt.
Some onion in the taste. Unripe apricot. Very sharp and acidic. From the 22 oz bottle purchased at Barons Market in San Diego.
May 09, 2017Some onion in the taste. Unripe apricot. Very sharp and acidic. From the 22 oz bottle purchased at Barons Market in San Diego.
Reviewed by MonkeyBread from Nevada
3.88/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Beer has a nice start of tasty dankness and green pine. There's initially a pleasant guava, passion fruit and stone fruit taste in the middle that lingers too long into the finish. Ends with an over ripe, tad spoiled, stone fruit flavor. Would prefer a bitter, dry finish rather than this. Nice showcase of simcoe though.
Apr 16, 2017
Hop Plunge from El Segundo Brewing Company
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
57 ratings
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