Hopnoxious
Sockeye Grill & Brewery

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From:
Sockeye Grill & Brewery
 
Idaho, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
Ranked #1,277
ABV:
9%
Score:
90
Ranked #9,822
Avg:
4.08 | pDev: 12.25%
Reviews:
8
Ratings:
19
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 25, 2023
Added:
Dec 16, 2008
Wants:
  7
Gots:
  4
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Reviewed by WillieThreebiers from Connecticut

3.83/5  rDev -6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours a clear honey gold with a finger of foamy head that dissipates to a thin ring with little to no lacing. Faint aroma of pine and citrus. Taste follows nose.
Sep 25, 2023
 
Rated: 3.93 by wisegreensoul from Idaho

Jun 08, 2019
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Reviewed by brenn79 from Idaho

4.03/5  rDev -1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 oz can PDT 05-04-17- Pours very hazy orange with medium white head that holds nicely with good lace. Aroma is spicy hops, citrusy, orange, a bit of raw malt, underlying caramel malt that isn't too noticeable. The taste is resinous piney hops, sappy and extremely dank, medium level bitterness that never quite goes away, medium level malt that tries to balance out the hops. Intense, hop heads should buy, everyone else stay far away.
Jun 24, 2017
 
Rated: 3.45 by PrestigeWorldwide from Michigan

Jun 04, 2017
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Reviewed by Spikester from Oregon

4.28/5  rDev +4.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Clear amber with three fingers of off white head. Good retention and lacing.
Smell of pine or resins bread crust malts.
Taste is pine resinous leather grapefruit pith hops with a big helping bready malt.
Mouthfeel is medium to heavy with good carbonation level. Finish is medium dry and long lasting.
Overall a very enjoyable Double IPA. I would have this again.
Nov 27, 2016
 
Rated: 4.5 by IDABEERGUY from Idaho

Jun 05, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

4.15/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
12oz can from, yes, the Idaho Pour Authority, they of the cool environs and single can and/or sales propensities.

This beer pours a murky, dark bruised apricot amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, densely foamy, and silkenly rocky beige head, which leaves some chunky columnar lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.

It smells of rather sweet bready caramel malt, biscuity toffee, treacle, besotted pine resin, orange and red grapefruit-tinted vodka, untainted, if muddled tropical fruit, and further leafy, weedy, and herbal tincture hops. The taste is heavily sugared caramel malt (approaching candy bar levels), toffee pudding, aggressive pine needles and their forest floor friends, essence of orange and generic grapefruit oil, a still indistinct tropical fruit sweetness, and now hard to contain, yet somehow admirably integrated alcohol notes.

The carbonation is pretty understated for the hefty support job required here, and should be wary of those submitting resumes, given its otherwise wan frothiness, the body a sturdy medium-heavy weight, and smooth enough, I suppose, if you like surfing on the edge of sanity, that is. It finishes sweet, caramel-heavy, piney, citrusy, and boozy - yet not in that particular order - but who's counting, right?

Given that this one cost ~3 times more than its simple IPA brethren, I was expecting something more to come out of it, and come out of it something did. Large, in charge, and duly brassy, with everything that a big-ass IPA should possess, west-coast style, even if you can't exactly imagine the Pacific Ocean from trendy and stupidly attractive Boise town proper.
Aug 07, 2015
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.16/5  rDev -22.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
On tap at Cole brewpub. A bit underwhelming, more subdued compared to others in the NW. Solid but tame. I much prefer the Double Dagger to this seasonal outing.
May 22, 2015
 
Rated: 5 by crafty85 from Washington

Sep 11, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by JoelClark from Idaho

Aug 03, 2014
 
Rated: 5 by MikeDAdams from Idaho

Jul 07, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by jcugafsu from Georgia

Jun 05, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by LXIXME from New Mexico

May 24, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by neckbracesub from Indiana

May 23, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by Shaimless from Oregon

Dec 06, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by Travisnin from Idaho

Nov 15, 2011
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Reviewed by Scotchboy from Idaho

4.22/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Had on tap 9/1/11 at the brewpub. Served in a snifter.

A: A mostly clear golden orange, with a head that leaves an impressive amount of lacing/alcohol legs as the glass empties.

S: Intricate as you dig in, but completely hop forward; overripened tropical fruit, ripe mangos and pineapple, mashed/bruised bananas and alcohol, followed by sweet caramel malts and whiffs of honey.

T: On the tongue, more of those mashed/overripened tropical fruit. The sweetness of the malt most definitely keeps the bitterness in check.

MF: Clingy, medium body with low carbonation (expected) and a good amount of dryness.

O: Really pleasant IIPA, this beer combines elevated hop, malt, alcohol, bitterness and sweetness immaculately. Recommended, especially if you're more into citrus/fruity sweetness than pine in your IPAs.
Sep 02, 2011
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Reviewed by kraven from Idaho

4.48/5  rDev +9.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
This review if for the 09 release

I was there for the release party. Got to try this great bear in both nitro and 'standard' both had there merits the nitro smoothed out the beer a little, still having a hard time deciding which version i like the most.

Hoppy and sweet at the same time, new thing for me i love hop monsters so this one is a little different, but still wonderful.

It is still on tap as of right now (5/26/2009) and as had two whole weeks extra to age, and oh my oh my its so much better now, i plan on trying at least a glass a week to see how much better it gets. Sure hope we can get some bottles.

On a side note, my wife is not a ipa lover, but loves this beer!!!

grab some if you can
May 27, 2009
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Reviewed by JohnGalt1 from Idaho

4.42/5  rDev +8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
12 oz bottle picked up over the weekend at the brewpub for about $3.50.... I've had this a number of times on tap and am very happy they decided to put a little bit into bottles. Label shows nice pint with a vine of fresh hops coiled around it over a tie-dye background... "Hopnoxious" is in stylized letters that look like an old school Dead or Hendrix concert poster.

Poured into my shaped SA glass.

Not much of "pffsssst" when I cracked it.... Very aggressive pour... produces a fairly foamy 1" head atop a glowing golden/orange brew... there is a tiny bit of something (yeast ?) in the bottom of the bottle, but I was careful to keep it out of the glass... descent amount of lace as I make it toward the bottom of the glass.

Nose is all about hops.... nose hair coating citrus with a surprising amount of floral hoppiness (if I had to guess a fair amount of Centennial was used in late kettle and dry-hop) ... there is a little bit of pale maltiness... but mainly there just to keep things together.

The flavor is more balanced... nice background pale malts with just enough caramel malt.. not overly bitter thanks to the malt backbone... the hops are fantastic mid palate with about as much floral and citrus notes you can pack in while still staying balanced.. finish is long and filled with a dry fruity hop essence. The body may be on the thicker side... but a low carbonation level is pushing forward with a plush mouthfeel... very interesting, but I think maybe a touch more carbonation may be in order. Drinkability is fairly high and punctuated by the balancing act this brew pulls off.

I was super stoked when Jason told me they were going to bottle up the DIPA... BADASS!! You know what is even more badass, I hear a new batch of the Devil's Tooth is coming... and it too should be bottled!!

As for the Hopnoxious... I need more before the bottles are gone.

4/4.5/4.5/4/4.5
Dec 16, 2008
Hopnoxious from Sockeye Grill & Brewery
Beer rating: 90 out of 100 with 19 ratings