Area 52 Hedgefrog IPA
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 3.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 02, 2015
- Added:
- Jun 14, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.97/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
3.97/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
341ml bottle, the latest Area 52 Hop Development Lab test brew, code name Hedgefrog (redacted), aka IPA #7738. Further specs: includes wheat and juniper berries.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and well frothy chalky white head, which leaves a bit of sudsy dissolving cloud lace around the glass as it genially blows off.
It smells of musty, almost thoroughly dominating green juniper bark and berries, that is, until the dank, piney, and leafy hop acridity gets up to speed after that unexpected starter, with a tame gritty, grainy, um 'maltiness', a touch of soap, and a soft flintiness. The taste is still replete with dark red fruit mated with a tangy tree branch woodiness, semi-sweet pale and wheat malt (I guess), a hint of yeast, further evergreen pine needles and leafy deciduous hop greenery alike, and a fading soapiness.
The carbonation is quite alive and kicking, both in its fizzy and frothy emanations, the body a supportive enough middleweight, and generally smooth, the various botanicals not stooping to messing about here. It finishes off-dry, the fading twiggy fruitiness keeping the big green machine just about where it really wants it.
Yeah, this one threw me for a minor loop when I first took a good whiff of it - juniper is indeed the word in this lab rat gone wild. Fruity, woody, and with the suggestion of gin (the alcohol, I suppose, when it is theoretically untethered from the malt and big West Coast hop bonds here), which makes this pretty much the most interesting test subject to come out of Area 52 that I've yet had the pleasure of sampling.
Jun 14, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and well frothy chalky white head, which leaves a bit of sudsy dissolving cloud lace around the glass as it genially blows off.
It smells of musty, almost thoroughly dominating green juniper bark and berries, that is, until the dank, piney, and leafy hop acridity gets up to speed after that unexpected starter, with a tame gritty, grainy, um 'maltiness', a touch of soap, and a soft flintiness. The taste is still replete with dark red fruit mated with a tangy tree branch woodiness, semi-sweet pale and wheat malt (I guess), a hint of yeast, further evergreen pine needles and leafy deciduous hop greenery alike, and a fading soapiness.
The carbonation is quite alive and kicking, both in its fizzy and frothy emanations, the body a supportive enough middleweight, and generally smooth, the various botanicals not stooping to messing about here. It finishes off-dry, the fading twiggy fruitiness keeping the big green machine just about where it really wants it.
Yeah, this one threw me for a minor loop when I first took a good whiff of it - juniper is indeed the word in this lab rat gone wild. Fruity, woody, and with the suggestion of gin (the alcohol, I suppose, when it is theoretically untethered from the malt and big West Coast hop bonds here), which makes this pretty much the most interesting test subject to come out of Area 52 that I've yet had the pleasure of sampling.
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