Fresh IIPA V6
Hubbard's Cave Brewery
- From:
- Hubbard's Cave Brewery
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 95
- Avg:
- 4.4 | pDev: 4.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 02, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 07, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
95
World-Class
95
World-Class
Double IPA hopped with Simcoe and Ekuanot hops.
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.75/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16 oz can from Tavour. Pale yellow pour with thin, spotty head. Aroma is citrus, grapefruits, lemons, pineapple. Taste brings light citrus, big hops and finishes with a burn. Seems light at first, but the bitterness sticks around, accompanied by the smoldering heat. Give it a minute to wake your palate .
Jan 02, 2024
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.21/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Great hazy yellow pour with white bubbled head. The smell was mild hops with lemon, all kinds of tropical fruits and flowers, but not super vibrant. Taste was better in this regard, with good juiciness and floral notes, but hops were still playing second fiddle. Feel was creamy and smooth, with a hollowed out middle for pineapple to really hit you.
Dec 21, 2018
Reviewed by Hopheadjeffery from Illinois
4.32/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on November 1, 2018. Fresh by 12.31.18. Yet another well made double IPA from the guys at Hubbard's Cave. Fresh is best.
Dec 06, 2018
Rated by rkarimi from Colorado
4.5/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
11-25
Nov 26, 2018
Reviewed by michaelsmith11 from Illinois
4.48/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.48/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Had from a 16oz can. The look was hazy like a big glass of orange juice with a nice head. THe smell was great, very tropical, grapefruit, orange, a little bit of lemon, berry. The taste was very juicy up front with a strong fruit flavor that lingered and just a slight bit of bitterness at the end. The feel was nice with a coating that covers the palate. This was my first Hubbard's Cave beer and I'm very impressed. I will definitely seek it out again.
Nov 11, 2018
Reviewed by EMV from Pennsylvania
4.6/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured from a bomber into a Dogfish Head tulip. Last day of its 'best by'.
L: Cloudy golden pour. 2 fingers of foamy head. Falls fast with a thick sticky ring of lacing. Looks pretty much like a juice bomb.
S: Dank citrus and tropical fruits. Grapefruit, pineapple, guava, and mango.
T/F: Follows the nose... classic NE style DIPA. Dank and juicy... tropical fruit bomb... grapefruit forward but lots of other juice character. Mango and guava... passionfruit. Mild bitterness... smooth and sticky mouthfeel. Finish is juicy and delicious.
O: A ridiculously good NE IPA... could have come straight from Vermont. Just delicious... could drink this any time, and even on its 'last day' it still blew me away.
Nov 29, 2017L: Cloudy golden pour. 2 fingers of foamy head. Falls fast with a thick sticky ring of lacing. Looks pretty much like a juice bomb.
S: Dank citrus and tropical fruits. Grapefruit, pineapple, guava, and mango.
T/F: Follows the nose... classic NE style DIPA. Dank and juicy... tropical fruit bomb... grapefruit forward but lots of other juice character. Mango and guava... passionfruit. Mild bitterness... smooth and sticky mouthfeel. Finish is juicy and delicious.
O: A ridiculously good NE IPA... could have come straight from Vermont. Just delicious... could drink this any time, and even on its 'last day' it still blew me away.
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