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Devil's Dream IPA
Hoyne Brewing Co.
- From:
- Hoyne Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 6.01%
- Reviews:
- 14
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 11, 2017
- Added:
- Feb 01, 2012
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 7
Here”s to Daniel Lapp, Oliver Schroer, ELH, and all great fiddlers. Libation and music, like the tumultuous marriage of malt and hops, stand waiting with us at the crossroads. And look: here comes the Devil, whistling past the graveyard, singing in the midnight choir, bottle in one hand, a fiddle in the other, and that crazy smile…
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - aaah, devils and fiddles, a match not made in heaven.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium orange-copper colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly beige head, which leaves a few swaths of chunky lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, a muddled citrus and melon fruitiness, some subtle free-range simple syrup, and more earthy, piney, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy caramel malt, some crackery breakfast biscuits, generic orange and grapefruit citrus rind, further tropical melon notes (I'm getting honeydew, mostly), a hint of earthy yeastiness, and more gentle leafy, piney, and herbal verdant hops.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its basically structural frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of hoppy intransigence making for a slightly less than ideal experience here. It finishes off-dry, with the robust malt proving that it has won this weakly contested war of attrition with the hops.
Overall, if the Devil's dream is to mess with something that you like, then that's what's happened here. This is by no means a bad brew, but it comes off much more like a decent ESB (now those are hard to find in these parts). Tasty, but don't go in expecting a huge, hop-forward offering. Damn you, Lucifer!
Dec 11, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium orange-copper colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly beige head, which leaves a few swaths of chunky lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, a muddled citrus and melon fruitiness, some subtle free-range simple syrup, and more earthy, piney, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy caramel malt, some crackery breakfast biscuits, generic orange and grapefruit citrus rind, further tropical melon notes (I'm getting honeydew, mostly), a hint of earthy yeastiness, and more gentle leafy, piney, and herbal verdant hops.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its basically structural frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of hoppy intransigence making for a slightly less than ideal experience here. It finishes off-dry, with the robust malt proving that it has won this weakly contested war of attrition with the hops.
Overall, if the Devil's dream is to mess with something that you like, then that's what's happened here. This is by no means a bad brew, but it comes off much more like a decent ESB (now those are hard to find in these parts). Tasty, but don't go in expecting a huge, hop-forward offering. Damn you, Lucifer!
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a light copper with a finger width of foamy, cream coloured head.
Smell - citrus and piney hops, hint of pine resin, grapefruit peel, bready caramalts, hints of citrus fruit.
Taste - citrus and piney hops bitterness followed by the grapefruit peel and pine resin. Malts are there with the sweetness, but primarily hop dominated.
Mouthfeel - medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes with lingering malt sweetness and hop bitterness.
Overall - An IPA with a solid hop level, however I wish the smell was truer to the excellent flavour in this brew.
Jul 25, 2015Smell - citrus and piney hops, hint of pine resin, grapefruit peel, bready caramalts, hints of citrus fruit.
Taste - citrus and piney hops bitterness followed by the grapefruit peel and pine resin. Malts are there with the sweetness, but primarily hop dominated.
Mouthfeel - medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes with lingering malt sweetness and hop bitterness.
Overall - An IPA with a solid hop level, however I wish the smell was truer to the excellent flavour in this brew.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bomber poured into tulip a ways back (from notes)
A clear light copper with plenty of bubbles feeding a two finger foam that slowly falls leaving random patches down the side
S strange mix of melon, citrus, herbal hops and soft caramel, cotton candy, more tropical notes as it warms and just a hint of spruce
T some orange, lemon, and lime peel to go with what I smell, some sweet malt provides a little balance, pretty good but could use a little more hops
M lighter side of medium, not as much carbonation as I'd guess after looking at it but that still leaves enough to fluff it up, a little grit on the palate, lemon pith finish
O respectable beer but some room for improvement, perhaps not the freshest bottle? I don't see a date but seems a little malty at times
decent and drinkable but missing a little hop kick, well priced but I'd grab a Fat Tug sitting on the same shelf any day of the week over this one
Jul 09, 2015A clear light copper with plenty of bubbles feeding a two finger foam that slowly falls leaving random patches down the side
S strange mix of melon, citrus, herbal hops and soft caramel, cotton candy, more tropical notes as it warms and just a hint of spruce
T some orange, lemon, and lime peel to go with what I smell, some sweet malt provides a little balance, pretty good but could use a little more hops
M lighter side of medium, not as much carbonation as I'd guess after looking at it but that still leaves enough to fluff it up, a little grit on the palate, lemon pith finish
O respectable beer but some room for improvement, perhaps not the freshest bottle? I don't see a date but seems a little malty at times
decent and drinkable but missing a little hop kick, well priced but I'd grab a Fat Tug sitting on the same shelf any day of the week over this one
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This is a pleasant IPA from a brewer I had never heard of until yesterday. What set this apart for me was the nice fruit flavour that appears toward the end of the sample. I thought I detected blood orange, but it may have been mango. The hop finish lingers, in a relatively pleasant way. I will certainly be on the lookout for more offerings from Hoyne.
Jul 01, 2015
Devil's Dream IPA from Hoyne Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
51 ratings
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