HoppyNESS
Loch Ness Brewery

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From:
Loch Ness Brewery
 
Scotland, United Kingdom
Style:
English Bitter
Ranked #41
ABV:
5%
Score:
86
Ranked #18,923
Avg:
3.8 | pDev: 15%
Reviews:
7
Ratings:
25
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jun 21, 2022
Added:
Jul 04, 2014
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  7
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Rated: 3.25 by Stengelfoot from California

Jun 21, 2022
 
Rated: 3.79 by Dave1999 from North Carolina

Mar 26, 2021
 
Rated: 4 by paulish from New York

Jan 05, 2020
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Reviewed by ScruffySouthpaw from New York

3.55/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Served in a tulip glass from the bottle.

Appearance: Slight hazy gold to amber with medium bubbles creating a head is thick kind of like your settling quick before two sips.

Smell: light hops, weak malt smell. Seriously smells like a euro lager but lighter.

Taste: not bad at all, lightly bitter...slight hops and really light grapefruit.

Mouth: sticking after taste, very nice with med-heavy carbonation.

Overall: Not a bad brrew but like I have said before it's more like your poor man's IPA. Good for your first one of the night. Saud!
Oct 30, 2019
 
Rated: 2.24 by Sexmortus from Arizona

Aug 06, 2018
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Reviewed by flyingpig from Scotland

3.3/5  rDev -13.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
500ml bottle from Lidl supermarket:
Not a bad one here from Cairngorm, it was definitely more sweet in the early going than I'd anticipated with plenty of butter & vanilla flavours kicking things off. Towards the middle there was a few earthy hops & biscuit malts alongside the odd background fruit to help keep things interesting & balanced. It's definitely not a classic & probably not even one that I'd be likely to pick again but it was drinkable & came through better than expected which is all I can ask for really.
Apr 04, 2018
 
Rated: 4.34 by Oleg85 from Russian Federation

May 04, 2016
 
Rated: 4.75 by igl from Russian Federation

Dec 18, 2015
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Reviewed by Jerseyislandbeer from Jersey

3.59/5  rDev -5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Tasted at the Jersey CAMARA beer festival. Pours a golden orange colour with a white head. Aromas of fruity & spice. Tastes of sweet biscuit with a fair amount of malt, leading to pine & lots of hoppy overtones. Aftertaste is a good medium bitter finish. Overall a reasonable beer but a little heavy on the hops.
Oct 03, 2015
 
Rated: 4.5 by 123321123321 from Alabama

Sep 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.97 by Dzu from Russian Federation

Jul 28, 2015
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Reviewed by BeerAdvocate from Finland

4.06/5  rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From BeerAdvocate Magazine #89 (June 2014):

Citric, Smooth, Bitter, Quaff

The subtly of a Scottish Ale meets some semi-agressive hopping. Admiral, Columbus, Citra and Willamette hops bring this beer from a slightly pungent bitterness to waves of citrus zest to spicy tobacco. All of this on top of a perfect smoothness makes for an amazingingly drinkable hoppy bitter.

STYLE: Golden Bitter | ABV: 5.0% | AVAILABILITY: Year-round
Jul 07, 2015
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Reviewed by Hanglow from Scotland

3.92/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A very accomplished bottled modern british golden ale/APA . Probably a bit too dry and lacking caramel malt sweetness for an APA and perhaps a bit too strong for a golden ale. Well hopped but not overly so, good aroma but too excessive, easy drinking malt and not too heavy or watery.
Jun 17, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by Iaido from Russian Federation

May 29, 2015
 
Rated: 3.32 by WastedYouth from Scotland

May 18, 2015
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Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York

3.89/5  rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
On cask at Belfast Beer Fest, ‘14.
Burnished gold with steady white collar. 4
Lots of stone fruit on the nose. 3.75
Nectarine, slight toffee, then mango, tangerine, and honeydew hops. 4
Citrus ring and leaf end and lean bitter linger.
Lt-med, clean, some cling. 4

Lots of soft fruit - proper aroma hops. Lingers, at 5%, between APA and IPA. Nice, but not as amazing as everyone’s been saying. 3.75
Dec 17, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by AlexAfonin from Russian Federation

Nov 11, 2014
 
Rated: 2.5 by vicio75

Oct 26, 2014
 
Rated: 3.65 by charlatan from Scotland

Oct 11, 2014
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Reviewed by Dentist666 from Russian Federation

4.16/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Here we have american pale ale.
Poured into english pint.
Slightly hazy greenish-golden beer with 2-finger off-white head, good retention. Smell is crisp, grassy, citrusy, hardly ever resiny. Taste is bitter enough, of grapefruit and sunflower seeds, herbal hops. Sunny and refreshing beer with medium body and decent carbonation.
Sep 19, 2014
HoppyNESS from Loch Ness Brewery
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 25 ratings