Hopfest United IPA
Grapevine Craft Brewery
- From:
- Grapevine Craft Brewery
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 9.7%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 12
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 04, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 18, 2015
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 12
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
HopFest is a delicious and balanced blend of 10 different hops from the major growing regions in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Our year-round IPA, HopFest is big on the nose and citrusy, almost lemony on the palate with a smooth finish.
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Reviewed by Mateo2699 from Texas
2.26/5 rDev -39.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.26/5 rDev -39.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Pour is a darker orange nearing Amber hue, big frothy head that sticks around for a while. Smell is a malt bomb, some grassiness and that's about it. Very muted aroma overall. Taste is a big malt bomb, some candied orange, and did I mention malt? Taste is pretty thin bodied. Honestly this is one of the worst IPA's I've ever had. With no date on the can either. Very one dimensional, just sweet malt.
Aug 20, 2016
Reviewed by MattSweatshirt from Texas
3.52/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Orange bodied with a sudsy off-white head. Plenty of sticky lace left behind.
Caramel square sweetness hits me right off and I'm a little sensitive to malt in my IPAs. Kind of a turn off but there is plenty of hoppy notes here and with all the varieties in here you would think so. Orange, tangerine, floral, grassy, lemon.
Medium bodied with light carbonation. Candied citrus fruit hits me on my initial impression. A little sweet, but not as obnoxious as I was anticipating based on the aroma. Bitterness is fairly low though. Mostly citrusy fruit and floral flavors.
Wish they would date their cans because I wouldn't want this past about a month with it's huge malt load. It would just be a caramel bomb. I know this just came out days ago.
Mar 29, 2016Caramel square sweetness hits me right off and I'm a little sensitive to malt in my IPAs. Kind of a turn off but there is plenty of hoppy notes here and with all the varieties in here you would think so. Orange, tangerine, floral, grassy, lemon.
Medium bodied with light carbonation. Candied citrus fruit hits me on my initial impression. A little sweet, but not as obnoxious as I was anticipating based on the aroma. Bitterness is fairly low though. Mostly citrusy fruit and floral flavors.
Wish they would date their cans because I wouldn't want this past about a month with it's huge malt load. It would just be a caramel bomb. I know this just came out days ago.
Reviewed by Tommo from Massachusetts
3.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Classic texas ipa. Decent malt base, reasonable hop flavor and aroma, somewhat bitter. Not really objectively good or bad in any category, like someones mediocre homebrew.
Mar 03, 2016
Reviewed by allengarvin from Texas
3.39/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.39/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A: Slightly hazy amber color with a substantial head atop it.
S: Big, earthy, resinous hop aroma.
T: Fair bitterness on first taste, followed by a very vegetal hop flavor, rather unpleasantly so--not labeled Fresh hop, so not sure what's going on, but it definitely detracts from the taste.
M: neutral texture, decent body
O: The odd flavor makes this not very pleasant, at least to me.
Feb 07, 2016S: Big, earthy, resinous hop aroma.
T: Fair bitterness on first taste, followed by a very vegetal hop flavor, rather unpleasantly so--not labeled Fresh hop, so not sure what's going on, but it definitely detracts from the taste.
M: neutral texture, decent body
O: The odd flavor makes this not very pleasant, at least to me.
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