Be Hoppy | Wormtown Brewery
Brewed by:
Wormtown Brewery
Massachusetts, United States
wormtownbrewery.com
Style: American IPA
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 6.50%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
2010: Growler fills and taps only.
2011: Growler fills, taps, and 22oz bottles.
2012: Growler fills, taps, and 22oz bottles.
2013: Growler fills, taps, and 22oz bottles. A 60 case (360 4-packs) trial run of 16oz cans was released brewery only on September 18. Due to success, canning to begin in 2014.
2014: Growler fills, taps, 22oz bottles, and 4 pack 16oz cans.
Added by jmerloni on 04-01-2010
HISTOGRAM
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Ratings: 1,490 | Reviews: 200
4.44/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
12 oz bottle poured gently into a 16 oz mug, I need room to swirl
Clear yellow-orange, thick and very light colored beige head that is long lasting with much lacing.
Malt and hops dominate the smell with citrus and pine.
Flavor is sweet from the malt upfront, dries out as the hop flavor kicks in yet is not to bitter.
Rich mouthfeel for an IPA , behaves like the flavor as it thins but is not watery.
I am glad this beer rates so high, it is my favorite IPA considering it is reasonably priced (6-er for $10.49), well balanced and not overly hoppy...dispite the name.
Time to recycle, I have at least 8 empty 6-ers in the garage.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
12 oz bottle poured gently into a 16 oz mug, I need room to swirl
Clear yellow-orange, thick and very light colored beige head that is long lasting with much lacing.
Malt and hops dominate the smell with citrus and pine.
Flavor is sweet from the malt upfront, dries out as the hop flavor kicks in yet is not to bitter.
Rich mouthfeel for an IPA , behaves like the flavor as it thins but is not watery.
I am glad this beer rates so high, it is my favorite IPA considering it is reasonably priced (6-er for $10.49), well balanced and not overly hoppy...dispite the name.
Time to recycle, I have at least 8 empty 6-ers in the garage.
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4.25/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.5/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.38/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.11/5 rDev -3.7%
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3.25/5 rDev -23.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -23.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
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3.21/5 rDev -24.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
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4.18/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.41/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
3.76/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Light amber in color with a little cloud. Very mild smell. Mild hoppy flavor. A very light spice finish.
Listed as 7%. 13oz draft. The Fix Burger Bar. Worcester, ma.
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look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Light amber in color with a little cloud. Very mild smell. Mild hoppy flavor. A very light spice finish.
Listed as 7%. 13oz draft. The Fix Burger Bar. Worcester, ma.
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3.52/5 rDev -17.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
From the tap, in a pint glass
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
From the tap, in a pint glass
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4.23/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I tried this at Mews Tavern in Rhode Island. It poured a clear orangish with white head that left a nice ring lace. The scent had hop hints that included some citrus peel and pine. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with some citrus peel spice notes present. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall its a solid beer.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I tried this at Mews Tavern in Rhode Island. It poured a clear orangish with white head that left a nice ring lace. The scent had hop hints that included some citrus peel and pine. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with some citrus peel spice notes present. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall its a solid beer.
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4.28/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Served in a 4 oz (118 ml) flight glass at The Emerald Rose in Billerica, Massachusetts.
A: Pours a virtually clear, light golden color with a solid white head, so-so retention, but really intense rings of lacing.
S: Aromas of peach, mango, pine, and lemon citrus predominate.
T: Lemon and peach flavors are balanced by light roast maltiness and moderate piney bitterness.
M: Light bodied with medium carbonation. Drinks very cleanly.
O: A delicious and drinkable more WC than ECIPA
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Served in a 4 oz (118 ml) flight glass at The Emerald Rose in Billerica, Massachusetts.
A: Pours a virtually clear, light golden color with a solid white head, so-so retention, but really intense rings of lacing.
S: Aromas of peach, mango, pine, and lemon citrus predominate.
T: Lemon and peach flavors are balanced by light roast maltiness and moderate piney bitterness.
M: Light bodied with medium carbonation. Drinks very cleanly.
O: A delicious and drinkable more WC than ECIPA
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5/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Found a case at my local store. Decided to spend the extra $ (my usual IPA is Wachusett, Harpoon, or Sam Adams) and have found that 1) it is more than worth the extra $ and 2) it has become my favorite IPA. It's that good. I just hope I can get my local to get more of it: Wegman's doesn't have it. Or I'll just have to drive in to Worcester and pick it up there. That's a trip I'll be more than happy to make.
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Found a case at my local store. Decided to spend the extra $ (my usual IPA is Wachusett, Harpoon, or Sam Adams) and have found that 1) it is more than worth the extra $ and 2) it has become my favorite IPA. It's that good. I just hope I can get my local to get more of it: Wegman's doesn't have it. Or I'll just have to drive in to Worcester and pick it up there. That's a trip I'll be more than happy to make.
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4.17/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Legal Seafood at Term C Logan serves, and has great craft selection.
a) Nearly clear golden body with a super lasting and lacing head, even in this busy airport setting.
s) Floral garden of citrus, pine, herb, and bright, tart tropical fruit.
t) Follows the smell but big bursting flavors all in the citrus and tropical fruit direction. Then shifting into an herbal, piney, resinous. cleansing bitter finale.
f) mid body, well carbonated, finishing tight and dry.
o) More west than east coast hop bomb, gets better as it warms.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Legal Seafood at Term C Logan serves, and has great craft selection.
a) Nearly clear golden body with a super lasting and lacing head, even in this busy airport setting.
s) Floral garden of citrus, pine, herb, and bright, tart tropical fruit.
t) Follows the smell but big bursting flavors all in the citrus and tropical fruit direction. Then shifting into an herbal, piney, resinous. cleansing bitter finale.
f) mid body, well carbonated, finishing tight and dry.
o) More west than east coast hop bomb, gets better as it warms.
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4.49/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.25/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Brewed in Massachusetts but with their heart on the West Coast, the Wormtown Brewery is keeping the left coast's hop dominant taste going with a double dry hopped American IPA that celebrates a resounding fruit character from some of the sexiest hops on the planet and with a dry, bitter backbone that's careful not to interfere with the hoppy showcase.
Be Hoppy puts a smile on the face with a glowing pale gold color that lights up with a translucent haze. As a creamy and persistent head builds, the aromas spill onto the nose with a radiant perfume of citrus, herb, pine and tart tropical fruit. Sweet and simple early on the palate, the IPA starts off with a bready, honey and hard candy maltiness that's remiss of angel food cake.
It doesn't take long for the sweetness to dissolve and the palate to become arrested by the hop flavor. Bursting on the middle palate, the high flavor of red grapefruit, radiant tangerine, hints of lemon and the juiciness of honeydew wash the tastebuds in a clean and resinous taste. Trending bitter and herbal, the taste develops a near gooseberry, passionfruit and kiwi succulence that fuses seamlessly with a late palate of fresh pine shavings, muddled grasses and a peppery verbena-like herbal character.
Medium bodied but trending drier and lighter as the taste wears on, what stars reasonably creamy and fruity ends with spicy hop resins that grip the gullet tightly and extends into a long, botanical and smoothly bitter afterglow. This IPA doesn't back down from premiere bitterness, nor does it refuse to take a backseat to the juiciness or haze of trendy IPA, but shows the continued relevance of a bitter beer done well.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Brewed in Massachusetts but with their heart on the West Coast, the Wormtown Brewery is keeping the left coast's hop dominant taste going with a double dry hopped American IPA that celebrates a resounding fruit character from some of the sexiest hops on the planet and with a dry, bitter backbone that's careful not to interfere with the hoppy showcase.
Be Hoppy puts a smile on the face with a glowing pale gold color that lights up with a translucent haze. As a creamy and persistent head builds, the aromas spill onto the nose with a radiant perfume of citrus, herb, pine and tart tropical fruit. Sweet and simple early on the palate, the IPA starts off with a bready, honey and hard candy maltiness that's remiss of angel food cake.
It doesn't take long for the sweetness to dissolve and the palate to become arrested by the hop flavor. Bursting on the middle palate, the high flavor of red grapefruit, radiant tangerine, hints of lemon and the juiciness of honeydew wash the tastebuds in a clean and resinous taste. Trending bitter and herbal, the taste develops a near gooseberry, passionfruit and kiwi succulence that fuses seamlessly with a late palate of fresh pine shavings, muddled grasses and a peppery verbena-like herbal character.
Medium bodied but trending drier and lighter as the taste wears on, what stars reasonably creamy and fruity ends with spicy hop resins that grip the gullet tightly and extends into a long, botanical and smoothly bitter afterglow. This IPA doesn't back down from premiere bitterness, nor does it refuse to take a backseat to the juiciness or haze of trendy IPA, but shows the continued relevance of a bitter beer done well.
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Be Hoppy from Wormtown Brewery
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