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Hop Syndrome Lager
Epic Brewing Company
- From:
- Epic Brewing Company
- Utah, United States
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 12.86%
- Reviews:
- 88
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 28, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 21, 2011
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 31
A deliciously hoppy lager, this clean, spicy, yet fruity addition to the Exponential series is sure to quench your summer palate just right!
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Reviewed by iguanodon from Utah
1.53/5 rDev -56.3%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.25
1.53/5 rDev -56.3%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.25
[Original rating 2012-07-22] Pours a clear light gold with a thin white head. Aroma is bubble gum and faint grass. Taste is dish water with a bitter finish.
Oct 03, 2018Reviewed by dertyd from California
3.74/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
The beer pours out a slightly hazy golden straw color, with 1 finger of white head---------- the aromas are of grass/floral, bread dough, and soap---------- the flavors follow the nose with that bread dough and grassy noble hops, the beer has a thin mouthfeel finishing light and crisp-------- overall this beer was nice, it has a nice doughy malt backbone with a big dose of those noble hops-
Dec 08, 2017Reviewed by JuicesFlowing from Kansas
3.88/5 rDev +10.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev +10.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured into a balloon glass.
Look: Hazy straw yellow colored body under a white head that recedes to a light film. Random dots and vertical lines of lacing.
Aroma: Hay, dried grass, lemongrass, and citra hops.
Taste: Dried bread and grains before a plethora of dried grass, hay, and lemon peel.
Mouthfeel: Dry and medium bodied.
Overall: Not normally my style but the citrus helps make it more drinkable.
Oct 11, 2017Look: Hazy straw yellow colored body under a white head that recedes to a light film. Random dots and vertical lines of lacing.
Aroma: Hay, dried grass, lemongrass, and citra hops.
Taste: Dried bread and grains before a plethora of dried grass, hay, and lemon peel.
Mouthfeel: Dry and medium bodied.
Overall: Not normally my style but the citrus helps make it more drinkable.
Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
3.66/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.66/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12 ounce can. Straw colour, slightly hazy, long lasting foam. Pilsner noble hop and bready nose. Noble hops kick it up front, kinda fade mid palate, bread malt moves in. Light bodied. Tasty for the most part. The 4.5 %abv I do appreciate.
Jul 21, 2017Reviewed by demian317 from Colorado
3.71/5 rDev +6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
3.71/5 rDev +6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
Gold, nice hue, adequate hop aroma, nice pils middle ad finish--4.2 ABV makes it infinitely drinkable. A pleasant little pils--this is not a lager in taste but in yeast match only.
Feb 09, 2017Reviewed by Budinetz from Pennsylvania
2.92/5 rDev -16.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.75
2.92/5 rDev -16.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.75
Poured from the can into a Belgian tulip. ID on the bottom of the can reads: 3049, 11339. No date present.
Pours a cloudy, pale, straw yellow with a white, frothy head that dissipates moderately. There is a type of white sediment present at the bottom of the glass that almost looks like sand.
Smells almost like sea water, with a hint of lager yeast. Very off putting and not characteristic of the lager style.
Tastes hoppy at first but finishes more like an ale. There really isn't a clean finish that you get from a lager, but more of a fruit forward finish like that of an ale.
Mouthfeel begins with a lot of carbonation on the tongue and then does leave a slightly pleasant hop bitterness, but then finishes kind of flat with a dryness that's not so pleasant.
Overall this isn't my favorite lager by any means. I've had many hoppy lagers before and this is not something I would seek out again. Hopefully they work on improving this one.
Cheers,
WB
Jan 19, 2017Pours a cloudy, pale, straw yellow with a white, frothy head that dissipates moderately. There is a type of white sediment present at the bottom of the glass that almost looks like sand.
Smells almost like sea water, with a hint of lager yeast. Very off putting and not characteristic of the lager style.
Tastes hoppy at first but finishes more like an ale. There really isn't a clean finish that you get from a lager, but more of a fruit forward finish like that of an ale.
Mouthfeel begins with a lot of carbonation on the tongue and then does leave a slightly pleasant hop bitterness, but then finishes kind of flat with a dryness that's not so pleasant.
Overall this isn't my favorite lager by any means. I've had many hoppy lagers before and this is not something I would seek out again. Hopefully they work on improving this one.
Cheers,
WB
Hop Syndrome Lager from Epic Brewing Company
Beer rating:
80 out of
100 with
310 ratings
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