Long Hammer IPA
Redhook Brewlab

Remember the name but not much else as it's been a couple or 3 years since I've had it.

Bottle 0.335L.
Slightly hazy deep golden body with small, fizzy, white head, fully diminishing with virtually no lacing.
Heavy hoppy (flowers, citrus) and light malty (grains, some caramel) aroma.
Moderate-to-heavy bitter flavour with light-to-moderate sweet character.
Light-to-medium body with watery texture; flat carbonation.

 

 

 

An OG ipa. Very tasty and easy to drink. Bitter, citrusy, but well balanced. One of my all time faves. Super hard to find in Texas. Been around before ipas were hipster. 25 years ago i would bring a sixer with me to get togethers. I would share them and ppl would complain about the bitterness. This was the time when budweiser or miller made the bitter beer commercials with that old guy with no teeth. Now ipas are everywhere. Go figure. But todays ipas are either unbalanced and overly bitter or too sweet. I havent been able to find many i like even though theres tons to choose from. I do like Juneau Juice by Alaskan. And there was a local restaurant called Two Rows that had a beautiful deep red ipa that was delicious but they closed down. Overall if you like ipas and you stumble across Longhammer, grab it.

 

Not a fan of this IPA.
Get it from a tap in a bar.
Amber color, little to no head.
Hoppy, bitterness is too overwhelming. I can’t taste the fruitiness I am looking for.

It's got all the stuff hoppy IPA fans seek - citrusy, piney, etc., etc. Though I am not a big hop+ IPA fan myself, I do think this beer is carefully and well assembled, crisp, and quite drinkable. A nice offset from traditional ales and lager.

March 2013: 355 ml (12 fl. oz.) bottle, will soon be available at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 6.2%. Golden colour, moderate white head. Lovely aroma of fruity (tropical fruits, citrus) and resinous hops. Distinctly hoppy flavour throughout, grapefruity and slightly spicy notes with a hint of tobacco, but the bitterness is not extreme.

 

A great deal at 6.97 /sixer of 12 oz.cans with packaged on dates!These are a few months old but still good...for a nostalgic glimpse into the past, this is probably the first ipa many of us ever saw in some corner store with a few video games. Still great and recommended
A nice white head, great hop notes in the nose, and a good malt balance and feel to make it crushable

Not bad, I enjoy most of what I have had from Redhook. Took the awesome $1 brewery tour in NH and drank a ton of freshie fresh brews from the pitchers at the end with my girlfriend. Super fun old man guided the tour and let us drink plenty!

 

 

 

 

Good looking beer, poured a 22oz bomber into a 1L Stein. Nice head, good carbonation, decent IPA for the price.

 

Copped a 12 pack of 12oz cans for the low, packaged on 7.8.20. I am already very familiar with the west coast ipa style, often piney, cedary, citrusy and drier.

L: Crystal clear light caramel, srm 9. A stiff off-white head with large bubbles. Active carbonation visible. Head dies in a minute or so. The transparency is shocking

S: Pine jumped right out of the can as I cracked it supported by a more floral citrus, not juicy. Stale bread crusts balance out the nose. The intensity is to a large degree.

T: Earthy, piney base with grapefruit sour notes. Bitterness not detected until the finish. Ranged mid to back of the palate. A little heavy on malt flavor here.

F: Rather crisp but the dark bread crumbs shut that down. Oily, medium-light body. Drinkable.

Long Hammer is one of Washington's most favorable west coast ipas. I understand why. It taste like a dewy forest but with hints of citrus so often found in ipas. This citrus was more like the orange plant than the fruit itself. It is easy to throw back but I am not sure I'd want to drink more than two of these in a light, it would get boring. However, overall a standard representation of the WCIPA.