GrowHop Series - Topaz IPA
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 1.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 09, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 22, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
341ml bottle, the guest star in the current Phillips Hopbox. Nice of the brewer to give us mouth-breathers a pronunciation guide on the label for the word 'topaz'.
This beer pours a mildly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and rather silken off-white head, which leaves some decent sudsy Pangaea profile lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of grainy, doughy caramel malt, kind of sugary tropical fruit, leafy pine resin, zingy white grapefruit pith, a further earthy, almost dank bitterness, and some swirling boozy esters. The taste is gritty, bready caramel malt, a twinge of extra toffee sweetness, acrid pine needles, a mixed tropical and domestic citrus and melon fruitiness, some bitter leafy earthiness, and more somewhat edgy alcohol ingress.
The carbonation is nice and fluffy in its earnest and supportive frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and more or less smooth, the fruity side of the hops seemingly stepping in here to assure safe passage for all. It finishes off-dry, the still heady malt, zippy fruitiness, and earthy/piney acridity landing as such.
Another agreeable single-hopped experiment from Phillips, this time via the Australian Topaz varietal. Bitter and sweet, fruity and earthy, just as advertised - this hop appears to be capable of holding a brew up, and my attention, all on its own. Good stuff.
Nov 22, 2015This beer pours a mildly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and rather silken off-white head, which leaves some decent sudsy Pangaea profile lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of grainy, doughy caramel malt, kind of sugary tropical fruit, leafy pine resin, zingy white grapefruit pith, a further earthy, almost dank bitterness, and some swirling boozy esters. The taste is gritty, bready caramel malt, a twinge of extra toffee sweetness, acrid pine needles, a mixed tropical and domestic citrus and melon fruitiness, some bitter leafy earthiness, and more somewhat edgy alcohol ingress.
The carbonation is nice and fluffy in its earnest and supportive frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and more or less smooth, the fruity side of the hops seemingly stepping in here to assure safe passage for all. It finishes off-dry, the still heady malt, zippy fruitiness, and earthy/piney acridity landing as such.
Another agreeable single-hopped experiment from Phillips, this time via the Australian Topaz varietal. Bitter and sweet, fruity and earthy, just as advertised - this hop appears to be capable of holding a brew up, and my attention, all on its own. Good stuff.
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