Boss Hog Oatmeal IPA
Hog’s Head Brewing Company

Boss Hog Oatmeal IPABoss Hog Oatmeal IPA
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From:
Hog’s Head Brewing Company
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American IPA
ABV:
5%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.58 | pDev: 9.22%
Reviews:
2
Ratings:
11
Status:
Active
Rated:
May 22, 2016
Added:
Apr 22, 2014
Wants:
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Gots:
  1
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Ratings by Howlader:
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Rated by Howlader from Canada (AB)

4/5  rDev +11.7%

Jul 20, 2014
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.32 by mikebu from Canada (AB)

May 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3.69 by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)

Jul 25, 2015
 
Rated: 3.72 by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)

Dec 29, 2014
 
Rated: 3.68 by hjmann from Canada (AB)

Nov 12, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by LDuke from Canada (AB)

Sep 05, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by bulldogops from Canada (AB)

Aug 28, 2014
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Reviewed by IllNate from Canada (BC)

3.06/5  rDev -14.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours a moderately clear copper with a finger of head that fades to lacing. Not much aroma, grainy malt bit of citrus and earthy hop. Taste follows with grainy malt and citrus and earthy hop. Mouthfeel is a little smother than and it does have body. Overall a forgettable beer.

Bought this in a mixer pack in Banff, AB. It was in a cooled freezer, so I had hopped the beer would be fresh, but so far I find the IPA's in the pack lacking in aroma and flavor, usually symptoms of poor storage or a tight brewing budget.
Jun 10, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by schnarr84 from Canada (AB)

May 04, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by artemh from Canada (AB)

Apr 28, 2014
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.93/5  rDev +9.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
20oz pint at Wunderbar - been way to freaking long since I've held up the bar here drinking the local-only taplist.

This beer appears a glassy medium copper amber amber hue, with one fat finger of foamy, frothy, and tightly bubbly ecru head, which leaves a decent pockmarked concrete wall of painted lace around the glass as it slowly abates.

It smells of pithy orange and white grapefruit citrus, a bit of wet pine needles, gritty, grainy pale malt, a hard water flintiness, and a slightly floral booziness. The taste is more edgy, but somewhat neutered citrus rind bitterness (orange, lime, and grapefruit), a certain breakfast cereal maltiness - oaten, sure, but a strong bready barley character dominates - with a further slight generic tropical fruitiness, and additional earthy, leafy, and lightly perfumed hop notes.

The carbonation is fairly tight in its ministrations, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, seemingly irrespective of the oatmeal treatment, and even in the face of all those prickly hop esters. It finishes off-dry, the fruitiness of the hops starting to heave the bitterness out of the way, while the the malt sort of stands by and watches.

A pleasant enough IPA, from a brewery that knows its way around a hop schedule - though I'm less than convinced by the extra grain gimmick employed here. Sure, the mouthful is okay, but it could equally be attained by a weak lingering hop activity. All right, fine, that's not the Hog's Head MO, so the oatmeal has had at least a minor role to play here. Good IPA, on the whole.
Apr 22, 2014
Boss Hog Oatmeal IPA from Hog’s Head Brewing Company
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 11 ratings