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Hoof Hearted Brewing

 

 

I am trying this beer off the tapper at the brewery as part of a four sample flight. It poured a hazy golden with white head that left a very nice lace. The scent had nice citrus fruit notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with bright sweet malt base with tropical fruit hop presence. The mouthfeel was medium in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a solid beer.

High marks for the voluminous frothy head. Highly drinkable. Please send more from Ohio.

 

 

Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass. Canned Aug 30th 2022.

Dull bodied yellow almost brown, with an opaque but non turbid appearance. The head is extremely soapy, with big bubbles and lots of shampoo appearances and minimal creamy tightness. Soap and leg like lacing through a quick dissolve, only because the bubbles are so big.

Decent hop aroma. Musty notes of earth hop flavor, light soil and dirt. A mushy fruit note, but very indistinct of either tropical or citrus, almost like a stinky durian. Decent hints of malt depth for nice balance.

Palate is decent but a tad underwhelming. Decent hop profile, but some touches of sharp almost feeling adjunct like carbonation take away some of the pleasure. Touches of what seem tropical fruit flavor but without a distinct presence that seems to get lost in the ether. Quite sweet as well, from a fairly simple neutral malt and yeast base. Minimal if hardly any bitterness, but luckily no sweetness, but not distinct hop aftertaste unfortunately.

A surprisingly new age tasting NEIPA that is drinkable and certainly fine, but is kind of a bit unremarkable and underwhelming in the plethora of this category.

 

 

 

 

Picked up a can of this at the gas station in Fallon, NV. They tend to get stuff not in their distro, but at a premium price. Paying $6 a can of this wasn't something I'd normally do, but the artwork sucked me in.

Pours a light orange and amber color with 3/4" white head on the top, moderate haziness to the body. Aroma brought the dry hopping of the tropical fruit variety, would seem to be Mosaic but no reference to anything about hops on the serving vessel.

Taste was standard hazy pale/ipa territory, relatively neutral yeast and body, wasn't massive flaked trub territory, but also a departure from those dry and crisp west coast ipas. Seemed like with all the sweeter citrus lacking the bitterness of the grapefruit hops, this was Citra and Mosaic in terms of what I taste. Good sized carbonation in both the appearance and mouthfeel.

It was a good beer, but just a one off for me, not gonna pay those prices even if this was better. I love all the $8 Moonraker cans from 2019 that are still at Speedway in Fallon. Laughable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The pour reveals a hazy golden colored beer with little bits of floaties levitating under a voluminous off-white head. Lovely beer. The nose is tropical fruits, primarily pineapple, some tangerine - and coconut. A decent amount of coconut. Very enticing.

The coconut is even more prominent on the taste, and it is complemented very well by the pineapple and tangerine flavors, and the mouthfeel is relatively firm for the style.

I don’t know if the brewery was going for a tropical hazy IPA, but they produced one that is a leisurely, pleasurable tropical flavor ride. This is well done in an understated way, if that makes sense.