Feisty Redhead
HopFusion Ale Works
- From:
- HopFusion Ale Works
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
Ranked #65 - ABV:
- 8.7%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #21,051 - Avg:
- 3.91 | pDev: 10.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 18, 2025
- Added:
- Nov 04, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Partaking:
Rated by Partaking from Texas
3.94/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Beautiful red color for a blonde. Lots of floral to the noise and taste. BA here shows an ABV of 5.9 but my can is showing 8.67 and I believe it.
Jan 20, 2019More User Ratings:
Reviewed by buckthehog from Texas
4.13/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
This is a hibiscus cherry blonde ale. Pretty high ABV for such an approachable and quaffable brew. There is a really interesting peppery citrus thing happening at the back of the beer which I dig. It is lively, dry, and unique.
May 18, 2025
Reviewed by Mark-Leggett from Missouri
3.23/5 rDev -17.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.23/5 rDev -17.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a can. Reddish brown in color with a large foamy head and lacing. Smells of fruit, floral, bread and malt. Flavors of dark fruit mixed with the hibiscus which doesn't really mesh for me. It's not bad but I wouldn't get it again.
Nov 28, 2020
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
4.17/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a can into a snifter
Appearance – The beer pours a clear ruby red color with a one finger head of off white foam. The head has a decent level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave a decent sum of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is rather light overall with a little bit of a cherry aroma as well as some smells of a cracker malt. Along with these smells comes a little bit of a honey and some grassy smells.
Taste – The taste begins with a crisp and sweeter cherry flavor with a bit of a biscuit and cracker malt background. Along wither these tastes comes some honey sweetness as well as a little bit of spice of a clove nature. There are other flavors of a light yeast and a bit of a hay and grassy taste that develop as the taste advances. Some light boozy and warming alcohol tastes also come to the tongue at the end, combining with all the other flavors and ending up mixing quite well to produce a rather nice and flavorfully fruity and lightly boozy taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that is average to slightly higher. For the mix of fruit, booze, malt and the style the feel is great and makes for a nice easy sipper.
Overall – A great Belgium style fruit ale. I view this as a Belgium strong ale with a nice cherry flavor. Overall warming and delicious!!
Jan 22, 2020Appearance – The beer pours a clear ruby red color with a one finger head of off white foam. The head has a decent level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave a decent sum of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is rather light overall with a little bit of a cherry aroma as well as some smells of a cracker malt. Along with these smells comes a little bit of a honey and some grassy smells.
Taste – The taste begins with a crisp and sweeter cherry flavor with a bit of a biscuit and cracker malt background. Along wither these tastes comes some honey sweetness as well as a little bit of spice of a clove nature. There are other flavors of a light yeast and a bit of a hay and grassy taste that develop as the taste advances. Some light boozy and warming alcohol tastes also come to the tongue at the end, combining with all the other flavors and ending up mixing quite well to produce a rather nice and flavorfully fruity and lightly boozy taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that is average to slightly higher. For the mix of fruit, booze, malt and the style the feel is great and makes for a nice easy sipper.
Overall – A great Belgium style fruit ale. I view this as a Belgium strong ale with a nice cherry flavor. Overall warming and delicious!!
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