Omnipollos Hatt IPA
Omnipollo

 

At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. Gifted from Chris Goddard from The Bodega, Toronto. No date stamp or lot number. My third beer from the Sundbyberg, Sweden brewery, and for 2025. With Gracie the cat...

Pours a hazy yellow wih massive, soapy head.

Smell is fruity and juicy with notes of citrus, peach and melon with some spicy hints.

Taste is hoppy and fruity with a moderate bitterness. Notes of citrus, peach, melon and grass.

Mouthfeel is medium, soft and well carbonated.

Overall, a very nice, drinkable IPA.

 

Feb 10 2025

473ml can served cold into a chalice. LCBO purchase as part of the discovery pack. Canned September 13, 2024.

Appearance - Very hazy and turbid yellowy/gold brew with a finger plus of white head that fades quick. Juice-like in appearance.

Smell - Pineapple nectarine combo up front with some grapefruit mixed in behind. Wheat malt, good aromatics.

Taste - Nectarine again with some other tropical fruit. Intensity is low as is the bitterness. Pretty juicy. Pineapple and grapefruit are much less significant than in the nose.

Mouthfeel - Creamy with low carbonation, medium-full body and juicy enough to be easy to drink.

Overall - A good New England IPA, that I wish leaned into some of the fruitiness in the beer a little more as everything in Omnipollo's Hatt is dialed back a bit and not providing the same expression and intensity as it could. With that said, a worthwhile addition to a mixed pack and nice to try another new (for me) beer.

 

 

This beer was contract brewed by Twelve Percent in Connecticut for the Omnipollo brewery in Sweden. Poured from a 16 oz can into a pint glass, this beer featured a hazy straw yellow/cardboard box color with a medium sized foamy white head. Head retention was better than average and there were rings of lacing on the glass. Very good, strong aroma of grapefruit and a little tropical fruit. Taste was more of the same but there was also a strong, malty presence a well. More robust flavor than most NEIPAs. Mouthfeel was rich and moderately bitter. I had it with a salmon dinner and it paired up very nicely!!!

 

16oz can. Poured out a cloudy, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of pineapple, grapefruit, orange and caramel. Sweet tropical fruit taste with toasted caramel and a piney bitterness.