Hazy Hare
Benson Brewery
- From:
- Benson Brewery
- Nebraska, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 5.46%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 13, 2025
- Added:
- Jul 09, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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New England IPA, round mouth feel, citrusy
IBU: 45
IBU: 45
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by colts9016 from Idaho
4/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Review: 2454
Name: Hazy Hare
Brewer: Benson Brewery
Location: Omaha, NE
Style: New England IPA
ABV: 6.3%
Canned: May 2025
Date: 11 July 2025
Hazy Hare is my second beer from this brewery. I am using an IPA glass, and the serving temperature is 44 degrees. The pour created a frothy, creamy, three-fingered white head with excellent retention. The slow dissipation left lots of lacing on the glass. The color is golden yellow with dark straw hues, charting at SRM 6, and cloudy. The beer has a fantastic appearance.
Nosing the glass, I detect notes of herbal, resin, tangerine, light grapefruit, mango, and pineapple. Smelling the beer again, I detect toasted bread, crackers, malty sweetness, floral, and a light earthiness.
Sipping Hazy Hare, I know it's not your typical NEIPA; it has notes of tangerine, herbal, grapefruit, mango, pineapple, lemon, floral, crackers, light earthiness, toasted bread, and a light resin note.
The mouthfeel is astringent, finishing dry and clean. The body is medium-light and has high carbonation.
Final Thought: It has a unique hop profile; it is not quite like a typical NEIPA. It has an interesting hop profile with more complexity than a fruit bomb. I enjoyed sipping on it.
Jul 13, 2025Name: Hazy Hare
Brewer: Benson Brewery
Location: Omaha, NE
Style: New England IPA
ABV: 6.3%
Canned: May 2025
Date: 11 July 2025
Hazy Hare is my second beer from this brewery. I am using an IPA glass, and the serving temperature is 44 degrees. The pour created a frothy, creamy, three-fingered white head with excellent retention. The slow dissipation left lots of lacing on the glass. The color is golden yellow with dark straw hues, charting at SRM 6, and cloudy. The beer has a fantastic appearance.
Nosing the glass, I detect notes of herbal, resin, tangerine, light grapefruit, mango, and pineapple. Smelling the beer again, I detect toasted bread, crackers, malty sweetness, floral, and a light earthiness.
Sipping Hazy Hare, I know it's not your typical NEIPA; it has notes of tangerine, herbal, grapefruit, mango, pineapple, lemon, floral, crackers, light earthiness, toasted bread, and a light resin note.
The mouthfeel is astringent, finishing dry and clean. The body is medium-light and has high carbonation.
Final Thought: It has a unique hop profile; it is not quite like a typical NEIPA. It has an interesting hop profile with more complexity than a fruit bomb. I enjoyed sipping on it.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.59/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
On tap at brewery:
Pouts an orange-accented amber with a bit of haze that, when combined with the color makes the beer fairly opaque. Not a lot of head, soapy, though a few spots of lacing appear. A little too tea like and missing that foamy head.
Nose and taste both have a caramel aspect. The nose has a medium toast and orange marmalade aspect to it. Combined this seems a little sweet and even tropical. The taste is a little malty sweet, but there’s an ESB like tea aspect in there. The bitterness comes as the skins of tropical fruit and to a lesser degree rinds of sweeter citrus.
The beer’s malty notes seem to give a little softness, but the beer generally feels like a slightly heavy regular IPA. And overall, this comes to me as a bit of a hybrid. 45 IBU isn’t as low as many NE IPAs and the bitterness does come through. I personally liked this, but felt this beer’s sweet/bitter balance was a bit more old school east coast than the newer NE IPAs.
Jul 09, 2019Pouts an orange-accented amber with a bit of haze that, when combined with the color makes the beer fairly opaque. Not a lot of head, soapy, though a few spots of lacing appear. A little too tea like and missing that foamy head.
Nose and taste both have a caramel aspect. The nose has a medium toast and orange marmalade aspect to it. Combined this seems a little sweet and even tropical. The taste is a little malty sweet, but there’s an ESB like tea aspect in there. The bitterness comes as the skins of tropical fruit and to a lesser degree rinds of sweeter citrus.
The beer’s malty notes seem to give a little softness, but the beer generally feels like a slightly heavy regular IPA. And overall, this comes to me as a bit of a hybrid. 45 IBU isn’t as low as many NE IPAs and the bitterness does come through. I personally liked this, but felt this beer’s sweet/bitter balance was a bit more old school east coast than the newer NE IPAs.
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