Hoponius Union | Jack's Abby Brewing
Brewed by:
Jack's Abby Brewing
Massachusetts, United States
jacksabbybrewing.com
Style: American Pale Lager
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 6.70%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
This lager harmoniously combines lager yeast fermentation and west coast IPA hops. Our India style Pale Lager is like a traditional IPA but with a twist - it’s fermented cold and aged for extended periods. A blend of classic American hops creates a huge tropical fruit and citrusy hop aroma. A dry finish accentuates the pleasant bitterness and hop profile. Hoponius Union uses locally grown dehulled spelt from MA.
65 IBU
Added by mschofield on 08-07-2011
HISTOGRAM
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Ratings: 2,760 | Reviews: 398
4.28/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a slight hazed golden yellow. Taste and smell is fruity with citrus hops, sweet malts balance this out. A crisp mouth feel with just a touch of bittering hops. Its a lager that drinks like a pale ale.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a slight hazed golden yellow. Taste and smell is fruity with citrus hops, sweet malts balance this out. A crisp mouth feel with just a touch of bittering hops. Its a lager that drinks like a pale ale.
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3.73/5 rDev -12%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.97/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
4.25/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
3.78/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.25/5 rDev -23.3%
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
3.77/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Tops out just under two fingers of cream white foam, the big amount of larger bubbles creates a dimpled surface, very loose and airy and it dissipates at a rapid clip, scattershot lacing without only moderate stickiness. Cloudy to the point where it becomes as opaque as translucent, deep golden color, similar to ripe apricot skin, only bubbles are a couple of beads which hug the glass side, visually could be a fruit purée. The nose is thick enough to cut with a knife, pine sap, caramel, fresh yeast and just cooked honey dappled bread, marmalade, marijuana dankness, spent chili peppers, peach, papaya, mango fruit scents, does an excellent job of shifting on you and going in unexpected directions. Full-bodied and heavy as well here, the carbonation adds tickle but not longlasting. Sweet dough, molasses, honey to caramel while the texture maintains a drying quality. Mix of pink to white grapefruit with blood orange brings growing sourness through the finish. Tarry as well, clay earth with a touch of dampened campfire smoke. The peach, apricot, yellow apple, pear fruit appear strictly in a supporting role. Powerful finisher without getting clumsy in the process.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Tops out just under two fingers of cream white foam, the big amount of larger bubbles creates a dimpled surface, very loose and airy and it dissipates at a rapid clip, scattershot lacing without only moderate stickiness. Cloudy to the point where it becomes as opaque as translucent, deep golden color, similar to ripe apricot skin, only bubbles are a couple of beads which hug the glass side, visually could be a fruit purée. The nose is thick enough to cut with a knife, pine sap, caramel, fresh yeast and just cooked honey dappled bread, marmalade, marijuana dankness, spent chili peppers, peach, papaya, mango fruit scents, does an excellent job of shifting on you and going in unexpected directions. Full-bodied and heavy as well here, the carbonation adds tickle but not longlasting. Sweet dough, molasses, honey to caramel while the texture maintains a drying quality. Mix of pink to white grapefruit with blood orange brings growing sourness through the finish. Tarry as well, clay earth with a touch of dampened campfire smoke. The peach, apricot, yellow apple, pear fruit appear strictly in a supporting role. Powerful finisher without getting clumsy in the process.
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3.75/5 rDev -11.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
4.25/5 rDev +0.2%
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 +6.1%
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
3.75/5 rDev -11.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.29/5 rDev -22.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.2/5 rDev -24.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
They're best lager yet. Yet, still just another lager in a long list of lagers.
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look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
They're best lager yet. Yet, still just another lager in a long list of lagers.
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3.02/5 rDev -28.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.72/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Nice beer
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Nice beer
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3.83/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Slight hazy pour. Foam dissipates quickly but leaves lacing along sides of glass. Orange/tangerine predominates in the nose. And the taste; with a dry, hoppy finish. The crisp lager taste comes through and compliments the citrus flavours.
I was not sure what to expect from a hopped lager but this Jack's Abby brew is more than satisfying.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Slight hazy pour. Foam dissipates quickly but leaves lacing along sides of glass. Orange/tangerine predominates in the nose. And the taste; with a dry, hoppy finish. The crisp lager taste comes through and compliments the citrus flavours.
I was not sure what to expect from a hopped lager but this Jack's Abby brew is more than satisfying.
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4.35/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I'm a hophead with respect to IPA, but I enjoy a good yeasty and bready lager, too, and generally see no need to collapse the two styles. But I muled a few of these back to the midwest and as I cracked them open over a few days, I found myself thinking: why can't you have both? In fact, this is a fairly unique combination, and it maintains a lot of really great lager characteristics -- nice woody yeasty notes, kind of a bready mellow feel -- while somehow, simultaneously really bringing an "A" hoppy game to the gym at the same time, with lots of citric notes, good liveliness on the mouthful and a really pleasant resiny bitterness, too. I give it a lot of points for being unique, but it's also just flat-out delicious stuff.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I'm a hophead with respect to IPA, but I enjoy a good yeasty and bready lager, too, and generally see no need to collapse the two styles. But I muled a few of these back to the midwest and as I cracked them open over a few days, I found myself thinking: why can't you have both? In fact, this is a fairly unique combination, and it maintains a lot of really great lager characteristics -- nice woody yeasty notes, kind of a bready mellow feel -- while somehow, simultaneously really bringing an "A" hoppy game to the gym at the same time, with lots of citric notes, good liveliness on the mouthful and a really pleasant resiny bitterness, too. I give it a lot of points for being unique, but it's also just flat-out delicious stuff.
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Hoponius Union from Jack's Abby Brewing
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