Yakima Hop Fight
Devils Backbone Brewing Company
- From:
- Devils Backbone Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.4%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.45 | pDev: 9.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 10, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 03, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by KTCamm from New Jersey
3.58/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
11/26/17....medium dark copper with 1/8th inch of white foam. Malty bitter nose, slightly bready. Strong resiny oily bitter malt. Pines and grasses, slightly boozy. Slippery mouthfeel, fast finish.
Dec 10, 2017
Reviewed by obywan59 from Virginia
3.58/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Golden orange and cloudy, barely transparent. 1 1/2 finger whitish head that leaves a bit of lacing.
Aroma of woody pine from the bottle. From the glass, it's more like sweet ripe citrus and tropical fruit.
Taste is rather dry at first, but sweetens up a bit as it warms. Tart citrus and buttery caramel.
Medium bodied with decent carbonation. Seems syrupy upfront with a drying finish.
A good beer. Great aroma! If the taste had matched the aroma, it would have been the best of the 12.pack.
Oct 03, 2017Aroma of woody pine from the bottle. From the glass, it's more like sweet ripe citrus and tropical fruit.
Taste is rather dry at first, but sweetens up a bit as it warms. Tart citrus and buttery caramel.
Medium bodied with decent carbonation. Seems syrupy upfront with a drying finish.
A good beer. Great aroma! If the taste had matched the aroma, it would have been the best of the 12.pack.
Reviewed by oberon from North Carolina
3.12/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Came a dull medium golden with a thinner but well sustained off white head atop.Deeply citric in the nose with earth and pine resin showing thru as well.An off sharpness on the palate kind of earth and pine ramped up too much,somewhat sweet in the back end.The flavors are just a mish mash that don't seem to work for me,very bitter but not in a good way.
Aug 17, 2017
Reviewed by Nosquatch from Virginia
3.56/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Good, not super awesome. Great smell and look to it, kind of like that girl who had a locker next to yours in 10th grade. The hops were a little sharper than they were juicy. Had it with a mixed pack. Probably the 2nd best out of 6 in the mixed pack.
Jul 21, 2017
Reviewed by Beejay from Virginia
3.12/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A: A golden tan color with a light white head.
S: Light hop aroma, orange zest, and some pine resin. Caramel and fresh orange in the finish.
T: orange zest, and lemon balm up front, with some lingering pine, and a touch of pine in the finish. Bitterness is moderate, and it's a bit boozy, with an almost bittery water finish.
M: Medium light body, moderate carbonation, a decent amount of bitter cling, but a ho-hum finish.
O: Overall, I was expecting more form a beer called Yakima hop fight. I don't think the hops are dynamic enough, and I'd like to know which hops were used. Put it on the label. Mediocre beer, with more marketing value than flavor.
Jul 06, 2017S: Light hop aroma, orange zest, and some pine resin. Caramel and fresh orange in the finish.
T: orange zest, and lemon balm up front, with some lingering pine, and a touch of pine in the finish. Bitterness is moderate, and it's a bit boozy, with an almost bittery water finish.
M: Medium light body, moderate carbonation, a decent amount of bitter cling, but a ho-hum finish.
O: Overall, I was expecting more form a beer called Yakima hop fight. I don't think the hops are dynamic enough, and I'd like to know which hops were used. Put it on the label. Mediocre beer, with more marketing value than flavor.
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