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Hop-O-Matic
Ritual Brewing Co.
- From:
- Ritual Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #3,018 - ABV:
- 7.1%
- Score:
- 84
Ranked #22,366 - Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 11.56%
- Reviews:
- 15
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 03, 2024
- Added:
- Apr 08, 2013
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 13
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Reviewed by WoodBrew from Ohio
4.03/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
I am trying this beer off the tapper at the brewery as part of a six sample flight. It poured a clear golden with thin white head that is leaving some lace. The scent had fresh pine and bitter citrus notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with bright malt base with bitter pine resin and citrus fruit presence. The mouthfeel was medium in body and had good carbonation. Overall it is a solid beer.
Mar 03, 2024Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona
3.94/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap..Pours a hazed golden color with a white head . Smell is fruity and hoppy.,and malty . Taste follows the nose with citrus ,melon,has a caramel malt baked bread finish. Mouth feel was fruity sweet nicely blanabced with malts
Feb 24, 2023Rated by thetigerace from California
4.19/5 rDev +12.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +12.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Nice hoppy beer, bready/malty, darker ale color, hides booze well, clean & skunky odor, recommended
Aug 09, 2019Reviewed by huthuty from Utah
4.6/5 rDev +23.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +23.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Color is dark orange, sticky head
The smell is endearing in its sheer denseness, smells of bread enemas and hops
Tastes like a double IPA with extra sweet bready malt. The hops are a bit fruity and refreshing. The alcohol is hidden well and hits hard.
Overall, a good strong beer.
Jul 21, 2018The smell is endearing in its sheer denseness, smells of bread enemas and hops
Tastes like a double IPA with extra sweet bready malt. The hops are a bit fruity and refreshing. The alcohol is hidden well and hits hard.
Overall, a good strong beer.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
22oz bottle - an IPA made with Citra hops. How edgy, or perhaps ritualistic, which I guess makes it ok.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and sort of bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent dissipating fog bank lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser biscuity caramel sweetness, estery pine needles, muddled domestic citrus rind, and further understated leafy, herbal, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery caramel malt, additional grainy cereal notes, still well-blended citrus flesh, oily pine resin, and more edgy leafy, weedy, and lightly soused-up floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a bit of hoppy intransigence tripping clumsily through the tulip garden here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt keepin' 'er steady, while the hop kiddies flit about, just happy to be up past bedtime.
Overall, this is a nice and simple American IPA, good and hoppy, yet balanced and thus drinkable, especially given the north of 7 points of the ol' wowee sauce measure. Yup, this is gonna go down faster than that scoundrel Scaramucci!
Aug 01, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and sort of bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent dissipating fog bank lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser biscuity caramel sweetness, estery pine needles, muddled domestic citrus rind, and further understated leafy, herbal, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery caramel malt, additional grainy cereal notes, still well-blended citrus flesh, oily pine resin, and more edgy leafy, weedy, and lightly soused-up floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a bit of hoppy intransigence tripping clumsily through the tulip garden here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt keepin' 'er steady, while the hop kiddies flit about, just happy to be up past bedtime.
Overall, this is a nice and simple American IPA, good and hoppy, yet balanced and thus drinkable, especially given the north of 7 points of the ol' wowee sauce measure. Yup, this is gonna go down faster than that scoundrel Scaramucci!
Rated by Furlinator from California
3.88/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
On tap at Rock & Brews, San Manuel on 01/19/17.
Jan 20, 2017Reviewed by Santosizer from California
3.76/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
This is just a solid beer to me. Sometimes, you don't need to do a lot for a beer to be more than what it is, a beer. This is an American IPA, and I think it fits that classification perfectly. The name American for a beer to me means it's it's not overwhelmingly strong, but very firm; a good malt backbone, some breadiness, and some citrus piff in the nose and the backend, with a dry finish. One thing I appreciate about this beer is it borderlines DIPA abv while still keeping the integrity of the beer intact . There was no off flavors from the yeast and wasn't malt bomb boozy.
I am rating the way I am because it is missing that unique factor to separate them from less costly beers with the same taste profile. It's just a good beer. My recommendation is I hope they attempt a West Coast IPA at some point, something completely full of juice and dankness. Their guava variation fit my market desire perfectly. It's obvious they know what their doing at Ritual.
Jun 17, 2016I am rating the way I am because it is missing that unique factor to separate them from less costly beers with the same taste profile. It's just a good beer. My recommendation is I hope they attempt a West Coast IPA at some point, something completely full of juice and dankness. Their guava variation fit my market desire perfectly. It's obvious they know what their doing at Ritual.
Hop-O-Matic from Ritual Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
115 ratings
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