Redhook Long Hammer IPA | Redhook Ale Brewery

3.25/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

2.59/5  rDev -20.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75

Oh my, the taste of these suds are like when my mother would rudely wash my mouth out with soap mixed with the mod fruit seltzer of the now....ugh....oh well, at least there are some other options behind this one.

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3.5/5  rDev +8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Shared a few of these with my father. On the nose I get piney and floral hops with earthy,sweet,and caramel malts. Not much else,kind of a subdued and uneventful aroma, though not unpleasant. Flavor of sweet and caramel malts up front, flowed by piney hops and floral hops balanced by more malts on the back end. Feel is medium with a dry finish. Seems like and old school classic NW IPA.

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3.41/5  rDev +5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

Appearance: pours a filtered light golden with one finger white head and generous bubbles from an IPA glass.

Smell: A little metallic. Some citrus and hops.

Taste: a bit underwhelming. Has some hop and piney flavors but to me it needs more hops and citrus for an IPA.

Feel: carbonation Is good. Easy drinking.

Overall: I prefer more bitterness and hops from an IPA. This seems more of a regular ale to me.

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4.05/5  rDev +25%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Production date 23 February 2017 clearly stamped on label; decanted into a shaker pint.
A: Slightly cloudy, amber to light copper color with white quarter inch head that dissipates quickly, but which leaves sold lacing.
S: Medium malts with aroma of citrus, clove, and pine.
T: Nicely balance of malts and bitter hops, with lemon and pepper notes.
M: Light to medium bodied, with nicely persistent effervescence.
O: I have been less impressed with the other offerings from Red Hook, but this IPA is a nicely constructed and balanced. A winner.

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2.87/5  rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

3.75/5  rDev +15.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

I love all of this brewery's stuff. Visited the Seattle brewery in the dawning days of the craft brew revolution. It was a fun and tasty experience. I like the ESB they make the best.

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3.25/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

3/5  rDev -7.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

3.03/5  rDev -6.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

Bottle at Lavo Las Vegas.

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3.47/5  rDev +7.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

3.16/5  rDev -2.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

3.67/5  rDev +13.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

3/5  rDev -7.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

2.97/5  rDev -8.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3

This really isn't an IPA in my opinion. It has very little bitterness or hops and has more of a sweeter crisp flavor. It's definitely drinkable and quite refreshing actually, but far from an IPA.

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2.45/5  rDev -24.4%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

The IPA that i did not truly enjoy. I first found this because one of my girl friends said there were no IPAs at the market, so i went my self and found this one.

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3.6/5  rDev +11.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

1.76/5  rDev -45.7%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Poured into a pint glass from a 12 oz bottle. No date at all but the beer appears to be fresh. No skunk or funk smell. In fact very little aroma. A hint of citrus and hops perhaps. The appearance is clear/copper with some bubbles. A quickly fading eggshell white head. Very little lacing. The taste is slightly sweet with some bitterness but not overwhelming. A faint taste of citrus at the back of the throat. The mouth feel is a little lemon and the finish is semi-wet/puckering. Over all not bad but with 6.5% abv you probably would not want to drink more than one. I'd like to compare this with their esb. I don't see why the bros gave it a poor rating. It is a good beer. Not great but I'll give it a B.

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3.5/5  rDev +8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Lacks the gourmet perfection of many of the contemporary craft beers (think Ballast Point Sculpin IPA), yet nonetheless, a decent session IPA for the price and not as lackluster as generally reviewed here at BA.

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3.13/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Poured from the bottle into a Spiegelau IPA glass. Dec 12, 2016.

Bright white and shiny beaming head, two fingers and slightly soapy with scattered lacing and good coating. Body color beams nicely a simple but bright tangerine orange body, clear and shiny with slow streams of linear carbonation. Nice looking.

For an IPA this is extremely closed. Neutral sensing malt, and maybe a touch of florals? But really reaching here, neutral and shutdown. Perhaps a faint caramel touch but that's really reaching.

Palate unfortunately continues the same theme. Light bodied almost session in character, with no malt flavor. Neutral and meaningless or distinct hop flavor in the mid palate. Slightly sugary malt bill on the finish that's very papery and white flour tasting.

Overall even for a regular beer there isn't much being delivered here, in fact it hardly has any bitterness at all strangely. Seems like an IPA whose time has long since past, but is drinkable without any faults.

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3/5  rDev -7.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

2.75/5  rDev -15.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

(11/27/16, 220z, Long Beach) First time in almost 10 years trying this (w/ not favorable memories) and it is not any better this time around. However, I recall it being more bitter. I came off a bit "bready" like a common pilsner. Would've rated a bit higher if not under this classification. As a lager this would be a decent beer, 2.75

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3.12/5  rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

2.8/5  rDev -13.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

2.46/5  rDev -24.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5