Hop Cartel: El Cinco
Levante Brewing Company
- From:
- Levante Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.9%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.13 | pDev: 4.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 15, 2025
- Added:
- Jun 19, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The Hop Cartel is back and making moves to take over the North American hop game. Using a signature blend of five powerhouse strains, "El Cinco" was formulated to dispense a superlative sensory overload, dripping with candy-like aroma and flavors of juicy tropical fruit, citrus oil, and dank piney resin. The game will never be the same again.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Caoimhin from Pennsylvania
4.48/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.48/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
This is a very nice NE IPA, and it tastes a lot like Heady Topper. Floral fragrances, great taste, light mouthfeel without stickiness make this an excellent beer. It obviously is underrated.
May 15, 2025
Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
3.77/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
On tap.
A - Pours a hazy medium gold with a dense pinky thick layer of foam that doesn't dissipate.
S - Light tropical fruit and citrus.
T - Faded tropical fruit and citrus from start to finish with a pine bitterness at the very end. There's a fair bit of honey malt at the start and finish (old keg?). There's also some residual candy-like citrus lurking in the background after the sip.
M - Big chewy body with light prickly carbonation.
O - Pretty mundane and doesn't come close to matching the description. Will give this one another try if I see it again, I'm guessing the keg might be a little long in the tooth.
Jan 07, 2025A - Pours a hazy medium gold with a dense pinky thick layer of foam that doesn't dissipate.
S - Light tropical fruit and citrus.
T - Faded tropical fruit and citrus from start to finish with a pine bitterness at the very end. There's a fair bit of honey malt at the start and finish (old keg?). There's also some residual candy-like citrus lurking in the background after the sip.
M - Big chewy body with light prickly carbonation.
O - Pretty mundane and doesn't come close to matching the description. Will give this one another try if I see it again, I'm guessing the keg might be a little long in the tooth.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.16/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.16/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Levante Brewing Co. "Hop Cartel: El Cinco"
$8/12 oz. on tap at the brewery on 10 June 2023
Look: Hazy deep gold beneath a short head of white foam. Limited head retention and lacing (dirty bar glass?).
Smell: The aroma is dank, citrusy, and malty.
Taste: Flavors of sweet and grainy malt, orange, citrus pith, light red berries, pineapple, and a touch of pine. Median bitterness with a dry, spicy, and resinous finish. The alcohol is well-cloaked for a beer of 8%.
Feel: Medium bodied but seemingly fuller due to all of the extra proteins. Gently bristling and then smooth.
Overall: Well worth trying.
Review #8,647
Jun 10, 2023$8/12 oz. on tap at the brewery on 10 June 2023
Look: Hazy deep gold beneath a short head of white foam. Limited head retention and lacing (dirty bar glass?).
Smell: The aroma is dank, citrusy, and malty.
Taste: Flavors of sweet and grainy malt, orange, citrus pith, light red berries, pineapple, and a touch of pine. Median bitterness with a dry, spicy, and resinous finish. The alcohol is well-cloaked for a beer of 8%.
Feel: Medium bodied but seemingly fuller due to all of the extra proteins. Gently bristling and then smooth.
Overall: Well worth trying.
Review #8,647
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