Hopdemonium IPA
Powell Street Craft Brewery
- From:
- Powell Street Craft Brewery
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.93 | pDev: 8.14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 10
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 20, 2013
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Shadman from Canada (AB)
4.31/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
First offering I've tried from this brewer.
Dark, cloudy with head and lacing dreams are made of
Hints of sweet caramel malts sneak in through floral pine and mango fruit.
Pine, citrus, then some solid malt backbone. Slight mango fruit that quickly get obliterated by grapefruit rind bitterness.
Medium feel, surprisingly not overly sticky given the ABV.
Excellently crafted. A definite must try if you're a fan of the style
Oct 29, 2016Dark, cloudy with head and lacing dreams are made of
Hints of sweet caramel malts sneak in through floral pine and mango fruit.
Pine, citrus, then some solid malt backbone. Slight mango fruit that quickly get obliterated by grapefruit rind bitterness.
Medium feel, surprisingly not overly sticky given the ABV.
Excellently crafted. A definite must try if you're a fan of the style
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.98/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.98/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
650ml bottle, @ 7.2% ABV. Wow, everything written on this label seems to be the polar opposite of neighbour Parallel 49's marketing ethos.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat chunky ecru head, which leaves some random low ceiling, sudsy cloud form lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of rather perfumed, gag-inducing florals up front, bready and doughy caramel/toffee malt, a phenolic yeastiness, Yuk-a-flux citrus fruit esters, and further leafy, weedy, and Pine-sol (not a typo) hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale and caramel malts, some minerality borne of hard water, muddled domestic fruit, weak honey, and more fairly bitter (but not in a good way) weedy, herbal, and dirty pine-like hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly innocuous in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the generic bitterness can only go so far in fucking up this metric as well. It finishes trending dry, the disjointed hops at least having some kind of common path out of this morass.
Overall, the biggest fail here is in the marketing blurb - 'massive hop flavours that won't destroy your taste buds'. While technically true (the best kind, I know), they instead confounded and disappointed mine - that acrid floral thing is just overwrought, and there's no sense of balance or harmony at all here. Drawing board, dust yo-self off!
Oct 26, 2016This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat chunky ecru head, which leaves some random low ceiling, sudsy cloud form lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of rather perfumed, gag-inducing florals up front, bready and doughy caramel/toffee malt, a phenolic yeastiness, Yuk-a-flux citrus fruit esters, and further leafy, weedy, and Pine-sol (not a typo) hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale and caramel malts, some minerality borne of hard water, muddled domestic fruit, weak honey, and more fairly bitter (but not in a good way) weedy, herbal, and dirty pine-like hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly innocuous in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the generic bitterness can only go so far in fucking up this metric as well. It finishes trending dry, the disjointed hops at least having some kind of common path out of this morass.
Overall, the biggest fail here is in the marketing blurb - 'massive hop flavours that won't destroy your taste buds'. While technically true (the best kind, I know), they instead confounded and disappointed mine - that acrid floral thing is just overwrought, and there's no sense of balance or harmony at all here. Drawing board, dust yo-self off!
Reviewed by Kobold from Canada (BC)
3.72/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.72/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Poured into a snifter
A stern white frown hovers above a meditative maple amber brooding the beginning of Sol.
Cereals, forsaken, musty honey, dirty pine, and an overwhelmed quiet pineapple skulking about the background. A slow alcohol fire also warms the nasal chambers.
Tongue tip tickling dance of sweetened lemon and lime; lingual ledges curl slightly under a barrage of delicate grapefruit and semi-bitter orange.
A drunk molasses infuses the entirety of the taste, and in so doing imparts a creaminess dotted with some spice and flecks of unoffensive ash.
Jun 05, 2016A stern white frown hovers above a meditative maple amber brooding the beginning of Sol.
Cereals, forsaken, musty honey, dirty pine, and an overwhelmed quiet pineapple skulking about the background. A slow alcohol fire also warms the nasal chambers.
Tongue tip tickling dance of sweetened lemon and lime; lingual ledges curl slightly under a barrage of delicate grapefruit and semi-bitter orange.
A drunk molasses infuses the entirety of the taste, and in so doing imparts a creaminess dotted with some spice and flecks of unoffensive ash.
Reviewed by BCborn from Canada (BC)
3.48/5 rDev -11.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -11.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
My previous 2015, Apr23 was 3.98 rating { 8% abv } very good
Now: poured from a 650ml bomber, {7.2% abv }
very light aroma of citrus, taste also very light
disappointed with this years batch, meh
Apr 24, 2016Now: poured from a 650ml bomber, {7.2% abv }
very light aroma of citrus, taste also very light
disappointed with this years batch, meh
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.1/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the brewery, Vancouver.
Creamy taupe sheets over bright orange amber. 4
Bright, fresh mango and tangerine - very Cali. 4
Ribbon of toffee and pastry, Hi-C orange, slight resin, lemon drop, and red grapefruit. 4.25
Lemon balm end and powdery bitterness.
Light, crisp, and salty. 4
Light and sunny. Great old C-hop brightness, 88 IBUs don’t show, and just enough malt and salt. Their best by far. 4
Feb 04, 2016Creamy taupe sheets over bright orange amber. 4
Bright, fresh mango and tangerine - very Cali. 4
Ribbon of toffee and pastry, Hi-C orange, slight resin, lemon drop, and red grapefruit. 4.25
Lemon balm end and powdery bitterness.
Light, crisp, and salty. 4
Light and sunny. Great old C-hop brightness, 88 IBUs don’t show, and just enough malt and salt. Their best by far. 4
Reviewed by hotmailmsn from Canada (BC)
3.44/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.44/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
8% ABV, 88 ibu, 650ml bottle.
A - cloudy amber copper color with one n half finger head.
S - piney, musky, citrus, lemon, maple syrupy, caramel, fruity as it warmed up.
T - well carbonated, medium heavy body, thick n smooth, sweet bit too brown sugar sweetness. bitterness come through, piney, little bit maltiness. dry. nutty, lingering sharp bitterness.
O - really good value DIPA, easy drinking, balance. purchased for $6+ locally. you can find everything u expected from a DIPA, just a bit too sweet for me, lack of complexity for an DIPA. I like the smooth mid-heavy body which rarely appeared in other DIPA.
Sep 21, 2015A - cloudy amber copper color with one n half finger head.
S - piney, musky, citrus, lemon, maple syrupy, caramel, fruity as it warmed up.
T - well carbonated, medium heavy body, thick n smooth, sweet bit too brown sugar sweetness. bitterness come through, piney, little bit maltiness. dry. nutty, lingering sharp bitterness.
O - really good value DIPA, easy drinking, balance. purchased for $6+ locally. you can find everything u expected from a DIPA, just a bit too sweet for me, lack of complexity for an DIPA. I like the smooth mid-heavy body which rarely appeared in other DIPA.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Powell St. Brewing 'Hopdemonium IPA' @ 8.0% , originally tasted on tap @ GCBF'14 , plus a 650 ml bottle & a 473 ml can recent 8th Anniversary
A-pour is gold from the tap/bottle/can to a clear amber in the glass with a medium size off-white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-pine , citrus & floral hops
T-crisp & somewhat smooth tasting DIPA , dry finish
MF-ok/good carbonation , big full body , a dryness lingers on the palate
Ov-good beer , enjoy
prost LampertLand
May 18, 2015A-pour is gold from the tap/bottle/can to a clear amber in the glass with a medium size off-white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-pine , citrus & floral hops
T-crisp & somewhat smooth tasting DIPA , dry finish
MF-ok/good carbonation , big full body , a dryness lingers on the palate
Ov-good beer , enjoy
prost LampertLand
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