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Clearly Hopsurd
Hubbard's Cave Brewery
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- From:
- Hubbard's Cave Brewery
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #1,529 - ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #13,780 - Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 7.3%
- Reviews:
- 2
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 24, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 08, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
West-coast style Imperial IPA with Citra, Columbus, Mosaic, and Simcoe hops.
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Reviewed by buschbeer from Ohio
3.78/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
1 PINT can
Served in a stemless wine glass
This beer pours amber with golden highlights and a slight haze. It is topped with a couple inches of beige head that leaves spotty lacing.
Dank, earthy, and citrus aroma
Dank and earthy flavor. I get some citrus. Bitter but it doesn't linger.
Medium bodied with an effervescent mouthfeel
I like the bitterness. I am getting tired of sweet IPAs.
Mar 27, 2022Served in a stemless wine glass
This beer pours amber with golden highlights and a slight haze. It is topped with a couple inches of beige head that leaves spotty lacing.
Dank, earthy, and citrus aroma
Dank and earthy flavor. I get some citrus. Bitter but it doesn't linger.
Medium bodied with an effervescent mouthfeel
I like the bitterness. I am getting tired of sweet IPAs.
Rated by Hopheadjeffery from Illinois
3.82/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.82/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Tasted in a snifter from draft at O'Toole's on June 24, 2021.
Jun 30, 2021Reviewed by Roguer from Connecticut
3.66/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.66/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Very attractive beer: good head production and excellent retention, decent lacing. Body has just a slight touch of haze, and appears fairly still, but is a nice golden color.
The hops leap from the glass from the first moment of the pour. Up close, the aroma is a really nice blend of throwback notes: tons of resin and pine, lemon, grapefruit, orange, and moderate dankness. Some stone fruit, melon, pepper, grass, oregano, and mango round out the profile.
Sweeter, oilier, and more resinous on the palate. There's a slightly awkward "dirty" or milky quality to the profile, as well; I'm not sure of the origin of that aspect, but I wouldn't quite call it an off note. Malt base is thick, pale, and sweet. There's a buttery aspect to both the nose and the appearance, which only worsens as it warms.
Fairly smooth presentation on the palate, but matching the appearance, lacking in liveliness and sting. It borders on syrupy, a common failure with old school IIPAs, but an aspect I infrequently encounter nowadays.
Overall, this is a mixed bag. The aroma is mostly awesome; the presentation on the palate, a letdown. The taste isn't at all bad, and I think they met the mark to go after a WC-style IIPA, but it's far from the best expression of the style, and it's difficult to make it through an entire can before the dirty and buttery flavor starts to become simply too much.
Apr 24, 2021The hops leap from the glass from the first moment of the pour. Up close, the aroma is a really nice blend of throwback notes: tons of resin and pine, lemon, grapefruit, orange, and moderate dankness. Some stone fruit, melon, pepper, grass, oregano, and mango round out the profile.
Sweeter, oilier, and more resinous on the palate. There's a slightly awkward "dirty" or milky quality to the profile, as well; I'm not sure of the origin of that aspect, but I wouldn't quite call it an off note. Malt base is thick, pale, and sweet. There's a buttery aspect to both the nose and the appearance, which only worsens as it warms.
Fairly smooth presentation on the palate, but matching the appearance, lacking in liveliness and sting. It borders on syrupy, a common failure with old school IIPAs, but an aspect I infrequently encounter nowadays.
Overall, this is a mixed bag. The aroma is mostly awesome; the presentation on the palate, a letdown. The taste isn't at all bad, and I think they met the mark to go after a WC-style IIPA, but it's far from the best expression of the style, and it's difficult to make it through an entire can before the dirty and buttery flavor starts to become simply too much.
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