HDHC Broccoli Special Reserve - Freaky Friday
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company
- From:
- Toppling Goliath Brewing Company
- Iowa, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
Ranked #750 - ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- 94
Ranked #3,248 - Avg:
- 4.28 | pDev: 5.84%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 18
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 02, 2024
- Added:
- Feb 06, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
94
Outstanding
94
Outstanding
Freaky Friday is here! Two breweries swap recipes and brew each other's beers. This TG-brewed version of Other Half's Imperial IPA is brewed with a hand-selected blend of Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Blanc hops, giving notes of mango, sweet orange, pineapple, and lychee.
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Reviewed by vette2006c5r from Minnesota
4.27/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
HDHC Broccoli Special Reserve - Freaky Friday pours a hazy orangish color with a perfect sized, long-lasting, frothy, lacing head. The aroma is fresh and dank, with a vegetable note. The flavor is a bit more bitter, very dank and fresh, and has a nice vegetable note. Good feel. Overall, it is a great, slightly more bitter, hazy IPA.
Dec 02, 2024
Reviewed by Wasatch from Colorado
4.5/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
16 oz. Can
PKG: 01/22/24
Poured into a Tree House glass a very nice cloudy pale yellow color, with some very nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy one-finger plus off-white head, which also leaves some very nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is very nice, hoppy, malty, with a very nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, peach, nectarine, apricot, lychee, cantaloupe), with a very nice diesel like. The taste is very nice, hoppy, malty, with a very nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, peach, nectarine, apricot, lychee, cantaloupe), with a very nice diesel like. Medium body, ABV is hidden very nicely, with a pretty nice dry/bitter finish. Overall, this is a very tasty beer. Orange Julius! Addictive! MilkShake!
Apr 21, 2024PKG: 01/22/24
Poured into a Tree House glass a very nice cloudy pale yellow color, with some very nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy one-finger plus off-white head, which also leaves some very nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is very nice, hoppy, malty, with a very nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, peach, nectarine, apricot, lychee, cantaloupe), with a very nice diesel like. The taste is very nice, hoppy, malty, with a very nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, peach, nectarine, apricot, lychee, cantaloupe), with a very nice diesel like. Medium body, ABV is hidden very nicely, with a pretty nice dry/bitter finish. Overall, this is a very tasty beer. Orange Julius! Addictive! MilkShake!
Reviewed by WunderLlama from Massachusetts
4.33/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Brewers notes: Freaky Friday is here! Two breweries swap recipes and brew each other's beers. This TG-brewed version of Other Half's Imperial IPA is brewed with a hand-selected blend of Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Blanc hops, giving notes of mango, sweet orange, pineapple, and lychee.
The beauty of a beer it forward is you get to try beers from other areas.In this freaky Friday series quality brewers swap their own favorite recipes and see how it develops under the other Brewers hands. I received from @victory_sabre1973in BIF 18 a freaky Friday collaboration between Toppling Goliath and other half. undoubtedly two excellent brewers. Toppling Goliath brewed Other Galfs , HDHC broccoli, special reserve, A double dry hopped India imperial pale ale
A 16 ounce can poured into a pretentious beer glass created an orang haze topped by a white shaving cream, two finger foam cap with great retention. Despite the haze, I see massive carbonation bubbles percolating through the liquid.
Aroma is sweet tropixal, pineapple in particular
Taste is dank with some sweet pineapple, orange citrus
Smooth with a semi dry dank finish and a go bite
Good collaboration beer , thanks for sending this beer my way ! If you are reading this forum and haven’t tried a bif…..you should!
Mar 30, 2024The beauty of a beer it forward is you get to try beers from other areas.In this freaky Friday series quality brewers swap their own favorite recipes and see how it develops under the other Brewers hands. I received from @victory_sabre1973in BIF 18 a freaky Friday collaboration between Toppling Goliath and other half. undoubtedly two excellent brewers. Toppling Goliath brewed Other Galfs , HDHC broccoli, special reserve, A double dry hopped India imperial pale ale
A 16 ounce can poured into a pretentious beer glass created an orang haze topped by a white shaving cream, two finger foam cap with great retention. Despite the haze, I see massive carbonation bubbles percolating through the liquid.
Aroma is sweet tropixal, pineapple in particular
Taste is dank with some sweet pineapple, orange citrus
Smooth with a semi dry dank finish and a go bite
Good collaboration beer , thanks for sending this beer my way ! If you are reading this forum and haven’t tried a bif…..you should!
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
3.62/5 rDev -15.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -15.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5
On tap at Donnelly’s Public House in Rochester, NY.
This one pours an extremely hazy and creamy looking golden yellow, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells super fruity and super juicy – just intensely saturated with hops.
This is extremely pineapple and mango forward, but it’s honestly a bit too much. There’s no bitterness, and the overriding hoppy creaminess is just pushed up way too far – it’s got a hoppy thickness that’s almost chewable, and not in an entirely enjoyable way.
This is very thick, very creamy, and very saturated feeling, with no real bitterness. It’s not as drinkable as it could be.
This was extremely ridiculous, and not superbly cleanly executed.
Mar 11, 2024This one pours an extremely hazy and creamy looking golden yellow, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells super fruity and super juicy – just intensely saturated with hops.
This is extremely pineapple and mango forward, but it’s honestly a bit too much. There’s no bitterness, and the overriding hoppy creaminess is just pushed up way too far – it’s got a hoppy thickness that’s almost chewable, and not in an entirely enjoyable way.
This is very thick, very creamy, and very saturated feeling, with no real bitterness. It’s not as drinkable as it could be.
This was extremely ridiculous, and not superbly cleanly executed.
Reviewed by dd53grif from Michigan
4.15/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a hazy yellow gold color with a foamy head that lasts quite a while. Aroma of grapefuit and other tropical fruits. Taste is peppery grapefuit with a slightly bitter finish.
Mar 07, 2024
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