Hop Rodder
BrewHeart
- From:
- BrewHeart
- Germany
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 3.98%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 23, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 11, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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This is NO juice-haze-fruit-craze. This is some serious west coast style which those won't like who don't know the style. It's bitter! It's dry! It's NOT juicy or hazy! It's the real west coast deal.
Hops: Columbus, Chinook, Centennial
Malt: barley, crystal 10, carapils
Yeast: west coast dry yeast
Hops: Columbus, Chinook, Centennial
Malt: barley, crystal 10, carapils
Yeast: west coast dry yeast
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.62/5 rDev -4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.62/5 rDev -4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Copenhagen 15/8 2021. 44 cl can from Best of Beers web-shop. Brewheart's usual design with half a heart in black and red. Radiator on a veteran car as motif.
Pours unclear - almost hazy - golden amber with a mid-sized, fluffy white head. Settles as thin, patchy layer of foam struggling to cover the surface of the beer. Moderate lacing.
Aroma is medium intense with a strong sweet odor of tropical fruit mingling with citric notes and whiff of turpentine. Passion fruit, papaya and mango. Citrus and pine.
Light carbonation. Medium thick, oily, soft, lightly tingling texture.
Flavor is medium intense with a fairly strong sweetness followed by a slightly more moderate bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter with a sweet undertone. Lingers for a while. Finish is fairly dry.
Well made and well balanced. Bitter yet pleasant.
Feb 23, 2025Pours unclear - almost hazy - golden amber with a mid-sized, fluffy white head. Settles as thin, patchy layer of foam struggling to cover the surface of the beer. Moderate lacing.
Aroma is medium intense with a strong sweet odor of tropical fruit mingling with citric notes and whiff of turpentine. Passion fruit, papaya and mango. Citrus and pine.
Light carbonation. Medium thick, oily, soft, lightly tingling texture.
Flavor is medium intense with a fairly strong sweetness followed by a slightly more moderate bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter with a sweet undertone. Lingers for a while. Finish is fairly dry.
Well made and well balanced. Bitter yet pleasant.
Reviewed by Snowcrash000 from Germany
3.92/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours a cloudy golden amber coloration with a medium, fluffy head. Smells of biscuity, slightly caramelly malt and citrus hops, with notes of grapefruit, as well as some herbal accents and just a hint of pine. Taste follows the nose, with a great balance of biscuity, slightly caramelly malt and resinous, bitter, fruity, slightly floral, herbal and spicy hops, with a distinct citrus note of grapefruit and and hints of peppery spice. Finishes with a strong bitterness and some grapefruit an pine lingering in the aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation.
First of all I have to say that it's such a nice change of pace for a modern German brewery to make a West Coast IPA instead of endless hazies and it's a pretty nice one as well, with a great bitterness that feels stronger than the 55 IBU listed and a very distinct, quite zesty grapefruit presence, as well as some pine resin and spice. While I think that it could be just a tad less floral and zesty and a bit more bitter and resinous instead, there's still a very nice overall balance of slightly sweet malt and bitter hops to this. Overall this makes for a not quite perfect but rather enjoyable West Coast IPA that is a very welcome diversion from all the New England IPAs that everyone else seems to pumping out. I really wish we would see more beers like this around.
Feb 14, 2021First of all I have to say that it's such a nice change of pace for a modern German brewery to make a West Coast IPA instead of endless hazies and it's a pretty nice one as well, with a great bitterness that feels stronger than the 55 IBU listed and a very distinct, quite zesty grapefruit presence, as well as some pine resin and spice. While I think that it could be just a tad less floral and zesty and a bit more bitter and resinous instead, there's still a very nice overall balance of slightly sweet malt and bitter hops to this. Overall this makes for a not quite perfect but rather enjoyable West Coast IPA that is a very welcome diversion from all the New England IPAs that everyone else seems to pumping out. I really wish we would see more beers like this around.
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