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Hop House
Brewery Ommegang
- From:
- Brewery Ommegang
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 10.32%
- Reviews:
- 126
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 29, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 14, 2013
- Wants:
- 23
- Gots:
- 162
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Ratings by NeroFiddled:
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.18/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Ommegang "Hop House"
12 oz./355 ml brown glass bottle, "PKG ON 01/07/14 BEST BY 01/2015"
$2.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Carefully poured so as not to disturb the lees, Hop House displays a mainly clear golden-amber body beneath a three-finger thick head of rocky off-white head that slowly settles into a dense 1" thick cap. The yeast pour will bring it to a fully cloudy orange and brass appearance with visible particulate in suspension. The head retention is excellent, and the lacing left about the glass is almost as good.
In the nose it's floral, softly piney, and delicately fruity combining soft citrus and tropical fruit notes with more of the usual fruitiness you get from yeast (tangerine, pineapple, mango, papaya, lemon, peach, apple, red berries).
The first sip informs you that it has a light-medium body and a very fine-bubbled, gently effervescent carbonation that gently caresses the tongue. It's 'smooth' but it lets you know it's there.
In the flavor it's both spicy/peppery and gently citrusy over a grainy malt base, and each of the components display themselves clearly but also work with each other to combine as 'one'. Only a moderate bitterness is needed as the spiciness and gently tart fruit work together to balance the lightly sweet, grainy malt.
It doesn't have quite the slap that some Belgian-style hoppy pale ales do, but the trade-off to that is that its balanced refinement leaves it just that much more drinkable: it's complex without being overtly full in flavor, and that keeps your interest as you progress through it, continually looking for more subtleties.
Jan 05, 201512 oz./355 ml brown glass bottle, "PKG ON 01/07/14 BEST BY 01/2015"
$2.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Carefully poured so as not to disturb the lees, Hop House displays a mainly clear golden-amber body beneath a three-finger thick head of rocky off-white head that slowly settles into a dense 1" thick cap. The yeast pour will bring it to a fully cloudy orange and brass appearance with visible particulate in suspension. The head retention is excellent, and the lacing left about the glass is almost as good.
In the nose it's floral, softly piney, and delicately fruity combining soft citrus and tropical fruit notes with more of the usual fruitiness you get from yeast (tangerine, pineapple, mango, papaya, lemon, peach, apple, red berries).
The first sip informs you that it has a light-medium body and a very fine-bubbled, gently effervescent carbonation that gently caresses the tongue. It's 'smooth' but it lets you know it's there.
In the flavor it's both spicy/peppery and gently citrusy over a grainy malt base, and each of the components display themselves clearly but also work with each other to combine as 'one'. Only a moderate bitterness is needed as the spiciness and gently tart fruit work together to balance the lightly sweet, grainy malt.
It doesn't have quite the slap that some Belgian-style hoppy pale ales do, but the trade-off to that is that its balanced refinement leaves it just that much more drinkable: it's complex without being overtly full in flavor, and that keeps your interest as you progress through it, continually looking for more subtleties.
More User Ratings:
Rated by flgimp from Pennsylvania
4.28/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
An excellent dry hopped pale ale
Dec 29, 2019Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey
3.1/5 rDev -18%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.1/5 rDev -18%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
**
04/05/2014
AROMA: Aroma grapefruit hops, pine.
LOOK: Nice white head, pale yellow.
TASTE: Taste is fruity, bitter late. Pine taste also. Alcohol is present.
FEEL: Feel is lively and creamy. On tap at JoJo's."
Not that tasty, but well crafted.
**
Oct 22, 201604/05/2014
AROMA: Aroma grapefruit hops, pine.
LOOK: Nice white head, pale yellow.
TASTE: Taste is fruity, bitter late. Pine taste also. Alcohol is present.
FEEL: Feel is lively and creamy. On tap at JoJo's."
Not that tasty, but well crafted.
**
Reviewed by Jerseyislandbeer from Jersey
3.94/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Brought back from my trip to NYC. Pours a hazy golden orange with good carbonation and a fluffy white head. Aroma is lightly malty, hoppy, yeasty, with a touch of fruit. Taste is moderately sweet, Belgian yeast spicy, herb, citrus, some flower, straw, light hay with a long medium to fairly strong bitter finish.
Oct 04, 2016
Hop House from Brewery Ommegang
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
807 ratings
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