The Hophead's Guide to the Galaxy
Cambridge Brewing Company
- From:
- Cambridge Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.14 | pDev: 4.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 10
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 02, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 22, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
91
Outstanding
91
Outstanding
This hazy I.P.A. is DOUBLE dryhopped with loads of Galaxy hops, plus Citra, Amarillo and Ella, offering massive citrus- and tropical-fruit flavors to our beer. MA-grown oat malt from our friends at Valley Malt and malted barley offer a soft and rounded palate. It’s bursting with juicy fresh notes of peach and passionfruit, grapefruit and lime, mango and tangerine, and earthy blackberry bramble.
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Reviewed by good_to_sea from Pennsylvania
4.21/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Look: Hazy, opaque pale yellow with a rapidly vanishing head. Attractive and juicy-looking.
Smell: Juicy orange, blood orange, and mango. Pine, grapefruit, coconut, and vanilla.
Taste: Citrusy lemon and grapefruit up front. Strong vanilla and lactose, like a sugar cookie. Spicy herbal hop bitterness and tart grapefruit/blood orange on the finish.
Feel: Medium- to full-bodied. Light carbonation.
Overall: A very tasty, drinkable NE IPA with a big vanilla/lactose presence.
Jun 14, 2019Smell: Juicy orange, blood orange, and mango. Pine, grapefruit, coconut, and vanilla.
Taste: Citrusy lemon and grapefruit up front. Strong vanilla and lactose, like a sugar cookie. Spicy herbal hop bitterness and tart grapefruit/blood orange on the finish.
Feel: Medium- to full-bodied. Light carbonation.
Overall: A very tasty, drinkable NE IPA with a big vanilla/lactose presence.
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
4.19/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: The beer is very hazy to cloudy whitish yellow in color. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that quickly settled down, leaving lots of specks of bubbles on the surface and lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of lime and grapefruit citrus are present in the nose along with hints of peaches.
T: The taste follows the smell, but has stronger flavors of lime and grapefruit citrus with notes of peaches in the middle and hints of pine towards the finish.
M: It feels medium-bodied and rather juicy on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The taste of this IPA not only has strong flavors but is also rather complex and has an interesting mix of flavors.
Serving type: can
Jun 02, 2019S: Moderate aromas of lime and grapefruit citrus are present in the nose along with hints of peaches.
T: The taste follows the smell, but has stronger flavors of lime and grapefruit citrus with notes of peaches in the middle and hints of pine towards the finish.
M: It feels medium-bodied and rather juicy on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The taste of this IPA not only has strong flavors but is also rather complex and has an interesting mix of flavors.
Serving type: can
Reviewed by beerdedking from Pennsylvania
4.54/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.54/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pours an orange banana hue of hazy pulpiness. Nose is fine, but the important attributes are all in the swilling. Vibrant tropical and citrus fruits, with dank undertones, perfect lingering bitterness. Extremely drinkable. Not a good NEIPA, but a great one.
May 27, 2019
Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
4/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A - Opaque medium to light white gold color with a dense creamy lacing ring.
S - Juicy and dank citrus and peach aroma.
T - Peach, citrus, and some spicy fruit rind with a lingering spicy citrus finish.
M - Big medium body.
O - A little overrated at 4.25 but rock solid, no doubt.
May 24, 2019S - Juicy and dank citrus and peach aroma.
T - Peach, citrus, and some spicy fruit rind with a lingering spicy citrus finish.
M - Big medium body.
O - A little overrated at 4.25 but rock solid, no doubt.
Reviewed by Burniefloyd from Rhode Island
4.34/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.34/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Delicious.
Light, cloudy, refreshing.
Slight citrus smell.
Taste is a mellow citrus hop but not a bitter sour citrus.
Close to a perfect blend in my opinion. I could drink this all day but honestly I would pass out as it is pretty strong.
Such an easy drinker.
Perfect for summer.
May 18, 2019Light, cloudy, refreshing.
Slight citrus smell.
Taste is a mellow citrus hop but not a bitter sour citrus.
Close to a perfect blend in my opinion. I could drink this all day but honestly I would pass out as it is pretty strong.
Such an easy drinker.
Perfect for summer.
Reviewed by brureview from Massachusetts
4.1/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Fully appreciate this hop bomb at 47°F +. One of the hoppiest beers I’ve tasted in awhile. A bit of dankness, citrus and a lot of fruit. Different and lot of Galaxy hops in the brew.
May 15, 2019
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