Good Hope IPA
75th Street Brewery

 

 

Very basic for an ipa does not have very much depth in flavor. A cloudy orangeish color. Mild hop aroma. Smooth flavor. Again very mild IPA. Not a huge fan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice coppery color, smell overtly hoppy. A nice one inch head of white foam. Left a nice lace around the glass.

Tastes, a really heavy, unpleasant level of hops. Not crisp at all. No malt taste whatsoever.

This might just be one of my least favorite IPAs of all time...but it looks good in the glass.

A nice ambery-orange color with a thin white head.
Smelled nice, with some juicy bitter orange, lemon, and papaya.
Tastes included bitter orange and grapefruit, big hop bitterness. Pretty good but a little imbalanced.
Smooth and light bodied, but the somewhat unpleasant finish makes me not want too many.
One of those "smells better than it tastes" IPAs, but not bad.

A - Poured out a clear, copper/burgundy hue with a thick, foamy, pillowy, off-white head. It left behind sticky patches of lace.

S - It smelled of pine, citrus and floral notes with a burnt toast malt aroma.

T - It tasted of spicy, piney hops. It had a sweet caramel maltiness with a bready quality. There is some citrus flavor, too.

M - Crisp and very sharp with a dry finish. A medium-bodied brew.

D - This is a very good IPA. It's even better on tap.

Sample at the brewpub. This brew is a golden-amber color with a thin and creamy off-white head that dissipates slowly. Rings of lacing. The aroma is piney hops with malt behind it. Medium, dry body with a moderately bitter hops character. Pine, woody malt and light spice are present as well. The finish is hoppy with a touch of lingering citrus. Decent all around.

75th Street offered it in both tap and cask versions so definitely went with the cask version.

Poured a deep copper with a 2 finger head and nice foamy lacing.

Very nice hop and earthy aroma.

Pretty healthy hop flavor both earthy and piney variety. Decent hop bite in each aftertaste.

Mouthfeel is smooth up front and then the bite in the back, low carbonation.

Haven't had on tap before but as far as the cask goes this would be my regular to start out with anytime I stop in for a couple.

Served on CO2 at the brewery into a nonic. Great coppery color with a white head that won't quit, leaving plenty of lace as its volume diminishes. A snootful of spicy hops greets you as you raise the glass, with some hints of darker caramel malt along for the ride. The taste is a pretty good balancing act, with the hops, unsurprisingly, winning out in the end after the caramel malt puts up a valiant but doomed effort. The hop aftertaste keeps the malt from being cloying, though the weight of the malt knocks this brew out of contention for session-beer status. All around a well made IPA that is without noticeable faults. I am jealous of those reviewers who had the opportunity to sample this on cask.

They don't always have this on cask, although they do always have it on forced CO2. It's too bad, really, as the cask version offers superior flavor and mouthfeel.

Also, it's "Good Hope IPA" for what it's worth. Good Hop is a clever pun, but apparently they're not that clever.

The beer comes from cask in a nice Imperial pint glass, with a good finger and a half head, all coppery orange and smelling of hops and malt, with a slight bready, earthy yeastiness that isn't present in the keg version. The smell is nothing short of divine, and the taste backs it up amply, delivering a satisfying (but not overwhelming) hop bill balanced perfectly by the caramelly malt. The flavor is largely citrus and pine with subtle hints of golden raisin and light fruit esters.

Mouthfeel--perfect. It doesn't get better than a creamy cask. I wish they had the Good Hope IPA on cask all the time.