All Hops For A Basement
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #3,386 - ABV:
- 6.6%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #26,538 - Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 6.91%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 08, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 30, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Rated by Dnoullett from Canada (AB)
4.13/5 rDev +9.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev +9.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This was a pleasant surprise. Really nice colour, robust taste, and just an overall good beer.
Mar 18, 2018
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.83/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
355ml can poured into tulip.
Pours a rich copper with half a finger of beige head that leaves exploding fireworks lace as it recedes.
Smells of pine resin,, brown bread, caramel, orange and grapefruit rind, muddled tropical fruit and juicy green hops.
Tastes of more sappy pine, more sweet brown bread, citrus rind, underripe pineapple and more leafy green hop bitterness.
Feels smooth and full. A chubby middleweight with fluffy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommmended. Very solid.
Sep 05, 2017Pours a rich copper with half a finger of beige head that leaves exploding fireworks lace as it recedes.
Smells of pine resin,, brown bread, caramel, orange and grapefruit rind, muddled tropical fruit and juicy green hops.
Tastes of more sappy pine, more sweet brown bread, citrus rind, underripe pineapple and more leafy green hop bitterness.
Feels smooth and full. A chubby middleweight with fluffy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommmended. Very solid.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.91/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
355ml single can - cool as beans to see this southern Alberta brewer now available up here in the 'chuk! Cuing up some fuckin' classic Big Sugar for the occasion!
This beer pours a slightly hazy, dark apricot amber colour, with a fistful of puffy, rocky, and chunky beige head, which leaves some splendid tacky snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly and fitfully recedes.
It smells of resinous pine needles, bready and doughy caramel malt, a gently phenolic yeastiness, muddled domestic citrus notes, and further leafy, weedy, and sort of perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste leads off with dank pine resin, some heady caramel/toffee malt sweetness, mixed and matched citrus and tropical fruit measures, ephemeral yeast, a hint of innocuous scallion astringency, and more leafy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite pleasant in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and actually quite smooth, with a nice inborn creaminess evolving over time out of the basement (sorry) frigo. It finishes off-dry, the caramel malt starting to edge out the waning piney and fruity hop bitterness.
Overall, this is a rather enjoyable first IPA contact for a new brewing concern in this fair province of ours - it tends towards the green side, hop-wise, and possesses one sturdy-ass malt backbone. I could surely have another and another of these, but well, you know - I am a workin' man, but I ain't worked for a while.
Dec 12, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, dark apricot amber colour, with a fistful of puffy, rocky, and chunky beige head, which leaves some splendid tacky snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly and fitfully recedes.
It smells of resinous pine needles, bready and doughy caramel malt, a gently phenolic yeastiness, muddled domestic citrus notes, and further leafy, weedy, and sort of perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste leads off with dank pine resin, some heady caramel/toffee malt sweetness, mixed and matched citrus and tropical fruit measures, ephemeral yeast, a hint of innocuous scallion astringency, and more leafy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite pleasant in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and actually quite smooth, with a nice inborn creaminess evolving over time out of the basement (sorry) frigo. It finishes off-dry, the caramel malt starting to edge out the waning piney and fruity hop bitterness.
Overall, this is a rather enjoyable first IPA contact for a new brewing concern in this fair province of ours - it tends towards the green side, hop-wise, and possesses one sturdy-ass malt backbone. I could surely have another and another of these, but well, you know - I am a workin' man, but I ain't worked for a while.
Reviewed by mattsander from Canada (AB)
3.49/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3 day old can
A: Deep orange, medium haze, tight head
S: Dank, columbus-y, a bit of onion, red fruit
T: Medium bitterness, medium body, a bit 'muddy' tasting, a little skunk
Not bad
Nov 21, 2016A: Deep orange, medium haze, tight head
S: Dank, columbus-y, a bit of onion, red fruit
T: Medium bitterness, medium body, a bit 'muddy' tasting, a little skunk
Not bad
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.83/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Enoyed this during the Alberta Beer Week tap takeover at Bo's in Red Deer. Overall, this is a nicely constructed IPA that errs on the side of hops and ethereal must. Nice pour, smoky nose reminiscent of a fall burning bin, pleasing hop punch. The feel was a bit greasy to me, but nothing to turn me off forever. Well played, Hell's Basement.
Oct 01, 2016
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