Hop Havoc Imperial Pale Ale
Baird Brewing Company / Fishmarket Taproom
- From:
- Baird Brewing Company / Fishmarket Taproom
- Japan
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 17.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 04, 2019
- Added:
- Aug 28, 2011
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 2
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.96/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the brewery's Takadanobaba taproom.
Hazy amber body with a good white head.
Moderately strong aroma with citrus hops dominant.
Flavor: It has both bready and fruity notes. Mild bitterness for style until the finish and aftertaste where there's plenty of grapefruit peel. Moderate strength flavor. Good balance.
Medium body with medium-light carbonation.
Jun 05, 2018Hazy amber body with a good white head.
Moderately strong aroma with citrus hops dominant.
Flavor: It has both bready and fruity notes. Mild bitterness for style until the finish and aftertaste where there's plenty of grapefruit peel. Moderate strength flavor. Good balance.
Medium body with medium-light carbonation.
Reviewed by MaLu from Japan
2.56/5 rDev -35%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
2.56/5 rDev -35%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
Poured from tap at Beer Ma BAR in Kita-senju, Tokyo On June 11. No head, very pale straw colour, almost watery looking. Lite smell of pine and a tint of cloves. Nice mouthfeel with a bit of suprising carbonation that would be good to beat the Tokyo heat in about a month. Not my favorite Japanese IPA but definitely worth trying multiple times.
Jun 11, 2017
Reviewed by Andrewharemza from Australia
4.25/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From bottle this season states it's 6.5 ABV. Pours cloudy orange with thick foamy white head. Lovely citrus hoppy orange aroma. Great Tate of citrus orange hops, juicy fruits. Excellent malty backbone. Tangy hoppy long bitter finish. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation. Excellent.
Sep 25, 2015Reviewed by snogglethorpe from Japan
4.67/5 rDev +18.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.67/5 rDev +18.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
An astonishingly good beer, this nails the fresh-hop-drenched, resinous, sticky, piney, "hop juice" variety of American IPA.
It's a nice deep green-gold color, not particularly carbonated (so the head's not huge), and the first sniff tells you immediately what it is -- it smells like _hops_, fresh and resinous.
The taste follows through in wonderful form: it really tastes like fresh hops. There's a little sweetness, but it's quite overpowered by the hops. The hop bitterness is clear, but tasty, and not overbearing, and the other various hop flavors just jump at you and sing. The mouthfeel is thick, oily, and a little sticky, and together with the taste, this really gives the impression one is drinking pure hop extract or something.
Baird's always had a American vibe, and they've been flirting with the concept of an American IPA for a long time, releasing beer after beer that sort of tease in that direction, but never quite satisfy, adding too many other clashing flavors or otherwise falling short of the mark. "Hop Havoc" remedies that; it's a pure and clear answer to those who want their sticky hop fix, and indeed does a better job of it than many more famous American IPAs.
For those in Japan, it's also much more likely to be fresh (craft beers imported from America, even on tap, are all too often way past their prime), which of course is especially important for this particular taste.
Aug 28, 2011It's a nice deep green-gold color, not particularly carbonated (so the head's not huge), and the first sniff tells you immediately what it is -- it smells like _hops_, fresh and resinous.
The taste follows through in wonderful form: it really tastes like fresh hops. There's a little sweetness, but it's quite overpowered by the hops. The hop bitterness is clear, but tasty, and not overbearing, and the other various hop flavors just jump at you and sing. The mouthfeel is thick, oily, and a little sticky, and together with the taste, this really gives the impression one is drinking pure hop extract or something.
Baird's always had a American vibe, and they've been flirting with the concept of an American IPA for a long time, releasing beer after beer that sort of tease in that direction, but never quite satisfy, adding too many other clashing flavors or otherwise falling short of the mark. "Hop Havoc" remedies that; it's a pure and clear answer to those who want their sticky hop fix, and indeed does a better job of it than many more famous American IPAs.
For those in Japan, it's also much more likely to be fresh (craft beers imported from America, even on tap, are all too often way past their prime), which of course is especially important for this particular taste.
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