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Imperialist IPA
Hopsters Brewing Company
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- From:
- Hopsters Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.6%
- Score:
- 79
- Avg:
- 3.21 | pDev: 16.51%
- Reviews:
- 3
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 01, 2019
- Added:
- Sep 09, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
2.28/5 rDev -29%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
2.28/5 rDev -29%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
nice creamy but smaller head, hazy iced tea tan color.
Nose piney and sweet resin citrus candy, tons of pine forest floor, grainy bland malts, reddish candy malts, a weird mineral water thing, weird ester thing. Herbal.
Taste is sweet malty, candy malt and boring reddish malt, syrupy mess, a poor malt flavor somehow. Then bland hops, piney earthy resin, herbal forest floor. Yeasty mess late, bitter resin and messy pine lingering, just bad.
Mouth is syrupy messy and light carb. Sticky.
Overall very sad, like some new homebrewer just slapped together all the leftovers in his basement and pawned it off as beer.
Jan 10, 2015Nose piney and sweet resin citrus candy, tons of pine forest floor, grainy bland malts, reddish candy malts, a weird mineral water thing, weird ester thing. Herbal.
Taste is sweet malty, candy malt and boring reddish malt, syrupy mess, a poor malt flavor somehow. Then bland hops, piney earthy resin, herbal forest floor. Yeasty mess late, bitter resin and messy pine lingering, just bad.
Mouth is syrupy messy and light carb. Sticky.
Overall very sad, like some new homebrewer just slapped together all the leftovers in his basement and pawned it off as beer.
Reviewed by CTHomer from Connecticut
2.65/5 rDev -17.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 2.5
2.65/5 rDev -17.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 2.5
A: pretty hazy; a deep burnt orange in color; 2 finger off white head that receded slowly to a thin cap; very nice, thick lacing;
S: while there is some grapefruit in the aroma, it is overwhelmingly a sour smell; pretty off putting;
T: almost like cider with a medicinal component to it; low bitterness; really nothing West Coast about this;
M: medium bodied, moderate carbonation;
O: No dating on the bottle, but it's labeled Batch #2. I'm hoping that this was a bad batch or a bad bottle, but it was undrinkable. At $10 for a 750ml bottle, it would be tough for me to give this another try.
Dec 04, 2014S: while there is some grapefruit in the aroma, it is overwhelmingly a sour smell; pretty off putting;
T: almost like cider with a medicinal component to it; low bitterness; really nothing West Coast about this;
M: medium bodied, moderate carbonation;
O: No dating on the bottle, but it's labeled Batch #2. I'm hoping that this was a bad batch or a bad bottle, but it was undrinkable. At $10 for a 750ml bottle, it would be tough for me to give this another try.
Reviewed by Jason from Massachusetts
2.85/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
2.85/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
750ml brown bottle with a bottled on date. Purchased from Charles Street Liquors.
Look: Dark reddish amber color, lacing does a good job sticking to the glass.
Smell: Piney, pithy, resin, citrus rind, and vegtal hop nose with suggestions of plum pudding and mild caramel. Yeast and grain are in the mix as well.
Taste: Smooth medium body with a toffee malt character at first sip. Alcohol is biting and very warming. Astringent grain and hops, not a pleasing bitterness. Unwanted higher alcohols run amuck. Pith and rind meld with that rough graininess which makes each sip harder to take.
West Coast IPA? I don’t see it. Hell ... I don’t even think “IPA” when tasting this beer. Problematic at the 1st sip, harder and harder to take another.
Oct 29, 2014Look: Dark reddish amber color, lacing does a good job sticking to the glass.
Smell: Piney, pithy, resin, citrus rind, and vegtal hop nose with suggestions of plum pudding and mild caramel. Yeast and grain are in the mix as well.
Taste: Smooth medium body with a toffee malt character at first sip. Alcohol is biting and very warming. Astringent grain and hops, not a pleasing bitterness. Unwanted higher alcohols run amuck. Pith and rind meld with that rough graininess which makes each sip harder to take.
West Coast IPA? I don’t see it. Hell ... I don’t even think “IPA” when tasting this beer. Problematic at the 1st sip, harder and harder to take another.
Imperialist IPA from Hopsters Brewing Company
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
18 ratings
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