Frequency Hopper IPA
Theoretically Brewing Company
- From:
- Theoretically Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.2 | pDev: 5.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 25, 2020
- Added:
- May 01, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BPVandenbroek from Canada (AB)
3.02/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.02/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Frequency Hopper pours into my glass medium amber in color with rusty highlights. Overall, looking like peach jam in a glass. The head is dense, tightly packed, and cream colored.
Frequency Hopper’s aroma is up front malt and hops. Malt is a combination of fresh baked bread and caramel. Maltiness leads into a center that is mostly ripe, juicy American hops. There’s also an herbaceous, leafy quality that seems slightly out of place. It’s not entirely unpleasant, it just doesn’t add anything to the proceedings, as it were. The finish at least has a slightly piney hop aroma to it.
Taking a sip, Frequency Hopper is medium bodied and smooth. There’s something going on with the flavor I’m not sure what to make of, though. Frequency Hopper has an up front juiciness that reminds me of some sort of tropical fruit punch. Subtle, not overpowering at all, but present nonetheless. Unfortunately, I don’t taste any significant malt profile. Too bad, because some malt might add structure and depth to the beer’s overall juiciness. Instead, the flavor profile just moves into a hoppy finish that’s not much more than more pacific northwest hops.
The flavor profile just doesn’t have any depth to it. Also, I’m not sure what to make of the leafy quality I found in the nose. It’s almost as though Theoretically Brewing wanted to put their own spin on the American IPA but didn’t approach that spin with any coherent plan of attack. It’s too bad, because for my money the whole beer suffered for it.
Oct 25, 2020Frequency Hopper’s aroma is up front malt and hops. Malt is a combination of fresh baked bread and caramel. Maltiness leads into a center that is mostly ripe, juicy American hops. There’s also an herbaceous, leafy quality that seems slightly out of place. It’s not entirely unpleasant, it just doesn’t add anything to the proceedings, as it were. The finish at least has a slightly piney hop aroma to it.
Taking a sip, Frequency Hopper is medium bodied and smooth. There’s something going on with the flavor I’m not sure what to make of, though. Frequency Hopper has an up front juiciness that reminds me of some sort of tropical fruit punch. Subtle, not overpowering at all, but present nonetheless. Unfortunately, I don’t taste any significant malt profile. Too bad, because some malt might add structure and depth to the beer’s overall juiciness. Instead, the flavor profile just moves into a hoppy finish that’s not much more than more pacific northwest hops.
The flavor profile just doesn’t have any depth to it. Also, I’m not sure what to make of the leafy quality I found in the nose. It’s almost as though Theoretically Brewing wanted to put their own spin on the American IPA but didn’t approach that spin with any coherent plan of attack. It’s too bad, because for my money the whole beer suffered for it.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.49/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle poured into Sam Adams pint glass.
Pours a clear brassy amber with two fingers of off-white head that leaves rocky coral reef lace as it recedes.
Smells of sweet biscuit, nutty caramel malt, muddled citrus pith, faint apple and soft green hops.
Tastes of more baked biscuit, roasted nuts, faint caramel apple, more pithy citrus and gentle grassy, piney hops.
Feels thin and frothy. Medium bodied with decent carbonation. Finishes off-dry and not quite smooth.
Verdict: Recommended. Tasty and easy enough to drink.
Jan 07, 2017Pours a clear brassy amber with two fingers of off-white head that leaves rocky coral reef lace as it recedes.
Smells of sweet biscuit, nutty caramel malt, muddled citrus pith, faint apple and soft green hops.
Tastes of more baked biscuit, roasted nuts, faint caramel apple, more pithy citrus and gentle grassy, piney hops.
Feels thin and frothy. Medium bodied with decent carbonation. Finishes off-dry and not quite smooth.
Verdict: Recommended. Tasty and easy enough to drink.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.36/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.36/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, freshly delivered to Sherbrooke Liquor store by one of this LA (Lethbridge, Alberta) brewing concern's partners herself!
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and almost creamy ecru head, which leaves some pleasantly tiered stringy Christmas ornament lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and doughy pale malt, an ethereal caramel sweetness, some musty yeast, and very gentle leafy, earthy, and dried-hay hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a growing gritty caramel thing, some still present innocuous yeastiness, a touch of generic pome fruit pith, and more rather understated leafy, weedy, and somewhat dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly timid in its barely-there frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a small tackiness taking away something from the whole. It finishes off-dry, the plain malt starting to wonder if the hops' heart is really still in it.
Overall, yeah, this is certainly English in style, the only question being, is it a pale ale or IPA of that particular national brewing persuasion? Well, the label sez IPA, so who am I to override the people who made this stuff in the first place? So, to that effect, even for the old-world version of the style, Frequency Hopper is pretty simple and not really engaging, in the sense of getting you to consider another round.
Sep 11, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and almost creamy ecru head, which leaves some pleasantly tiered stringy Christmas ornament lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and doughy pale malt, an ethereal caramel sweetness, some musty yeast, and very gentle leafy, earthy, and dried-hay hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a growing gritty caramel thing, some still present innocuous yeastiness, a touch of generic pome fruit pith, and more rather understated leafy, weedy, and somewhat dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly timid in its barely-there frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a small tackiness taking away something from the whole. It finishes off-dry, the plain malt starting to wonder if the hops' heart is really still in it.
Overall, yeah, this is certainly English in style, the only question being, is it a pale ale or IPA of that particular national brewing persuasion? Well, the label sez IPA, so who am I to override the people who made this stuff in the first place? So, to that effect, even for the old-world version of the style, Frequency Hopper is pretty simple and not really engaging, in the sense of getting you to consider another round.
Reviewed by mattsander from Canada (AB)
2.89/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.89/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Picked up this brand new beer @ Oak & Vine, who claimed to be the first sale ever for this new brewery. A 5.5% IPA? Sounds good. Pours with nice clarity and head, caramel color.
Strangely (though I guess not too strange for AB), the beer has almost 0 hop aroma, flavor or bitterness. No hyperbole, but it just seems like they forgot to hop this beer. Label says 75ibu, this tastes like an amber ale.
An extremely muted beer, not an IPA in any way. Nothing bad to say about it, its just not an IPA.
May 26, 2016Strangely (though I guess not too strange for AB), the beer has almost 0 hop aroma, flavor or bitterness. No hyperbole, but it just seems like they forgot to hop this beer. Label says 75ibu, this tastes like an amber ale.
An extremely muted beer, not an IPA in any way. Nothing bad to say about it, its just not an IPA.
Reviewed by Beervana from Canada (BC)
3.24/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.24/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours a deep orange with frothy white head, lively carbonation, looks great. Not getting much on the nose unfortunately; bready, nutty, slightly sweet, almost caramel-like. Like the smell, the taste is very muted; a slight grassiness, maybe the faintest floral component, a bit of a wet cracker character, not getting any bitterness really, certainly not the stated 75 IBUs. Feel is on the thin side, soft on the palate, slightly drying.
Overall, a seemingly well-made beer, though not really true to style. The name and label seem to indicate you're in for a true American IPA ("created with the hoppy-beer lover in mind") but if I were blind tasting this, I'd probably peg it as an English Pale Ale.
May 01, 2016Overall, a seemingly well-made beer, though not really true to style. The name and label seem to indicate you're in for a true American IPA ("created with the hoppy-beer lover in mind") but if I were blind tasting this, I'd probably peg it as an English Pale Ale.
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