Insatiable Fresh Hop IPA
Hopworks Brewery

12 oz can marked 8/28/25 poured into a pint glass.

Canned on: 8-28-25
Many thx to muchloveforhops3 for this can.

A - Copper golden colored pour with dense creamy lacing and moderate carbonation.

S - Caramel malt backbone with a citrus, floral presence.

T - Caramel backbone immediately is pounded down with a massive wall of juicy floral and citrus while ending with a nice citrus bitterness and lingering juicy floral on the palate.

M - Medium body with gentle carbonation.

O - The Centennials really shine in this beer!

Clear golden amber brew with piles of sticky foam in the Blanche de Chambly goblet. Quite fragrant with a distinctive hop note of spice and grapefruit. Sudsy and mouthfilling. Fruity and herbal flavors with a serious bitter aftertaste. Starts with an orange and grapefruit taste, but soon the finish is harsh and acidic. OK, it's fresh enough to slash your throat. Eventually the bitterness gets so overwhelming I have to abandon the project. From the 12 oz can purchased at Elizabeth Station. Dated 8/28/25 (not 10/28 as in snaotheus's review).

12oz can from Boise Co-op. Clear golden pour, one finger foamy white head. Hoppy aroma, fruit rind, floral. Taste amps up the floral notes, soapy, lemon zest. Mildly dry and quick finish.

Very hoppy, not super green as I was told fresh hops would be. Very one dimensional with only centennial hops in mix. It is well balanced with malt, my first fresh hop experience and I make these reviews for my own use, so keep that in mind if reading this.

2025-10-05
12oz can served in a stemless rastal. Canned 10/28/2025.

Pours mostly clear golden amber with a pretty big head, fluffy and white, settles into a creamy inverted dome. Smell is fresh cut grass, orange zest, orange blossoms, grain husk.

Taste is sweet with a moderate medicinal twist, lots of honey and honeysuckle. Moderate melon, plus some melon rind bitterness. Bitterness builds as I sip it.

Mouthfeel is medium to thick, maybe a little on the heavy side, leans a bit toward syrupy. Overall, not bad, not impressive.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber with a one finger white head with great retention solid lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, citrus and piney hops, orange, grapefruit and a touch of dankness. Flavor is lightly caramel malt with a little biscuit, citrus and piney hops, tangerine, grapefruit, spruce and a little summer herbs. Lingering piney and citrus bitterness. Medium bodied with moderate creaminess. It's been a while since I've had anything from Hopworks, although I liked what I had in the past. This is a great ale to revisit them with. The malt base with English style biscuit around the edges is unusual for fresh hops around the NW, but quite to my taste. The Centennial has fine fresh herbal flavor and the classic combination of citrus and pine that makes this a common WCIPA hops. Overall fairly complex for a single hop and delightful malt and hop bill. Nicely done.

fresh hop season is finally upon us, just seeing the first of them dropping in right now, had this on tap at bittercreek last night. i have long loved these guys and always admired how many fresh hop beers they seem to do every year, this one is new to me now, and its delicious, quite bitter, insanely fresh, the nose and taste are identical, no drop off at all, and there is nice balance from the malt, really beautiful beer, simple really, centennial hops, we dont hear about those like we used to, but this is a great showcase of them at their best. a little bit of light amber color to this just to remind us that some malt is in the mix, unfiltered looking as these should be, while still having some sparkle, and well carbonated with a puffy inch and a half of popping white foam, nice pour. the hops on this rule, some woodsy weedy intensity, some grapefruit and navel orange juiciness, some leafy green bitterness starting early, and flashes of culinary herbs, jasmine, lime, and juniper, pretty dynamic for a single varietal, and its got some bitter pop, i find myself thankful for the lightly toasted and fuller structed malt base this brings, it stays balanced while being hop driven, an exclusively lighter malt build might seem exposed with this hop intensity, so nice call there, clean ferment, oils all over the palate, freshness is absolutely off the charts. love the rushing carbonation, the hoppy linger, and the overall quality of the centennial in this, a varietal that certainly had its moment but maybe still deserves a little more love than it seems to be getting in recent years. as good as expected from one of the original kings of fresh hop beer, and killer with spicy food!