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Hopzeit Autumn IPA
Deschutes Brewery
- From:
- Deschutes Brewery
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 8.42%
- Reviews:
- 119
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 16, 2020
- Added:
- May 10, 2016
- Wants:
- 10
- Gots:
- 84
Tradition takes a turn for the new with this modern ale inspired by the old-school flavors of a Märzenbier, combining classic malt with the latest German hop varietals. Herbal and balanced, this Americanized blend of Bavaria is a perfect Autumn IPA for your backyard biergarten this fall season.
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Ratings by biboergosum:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.78/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12oz bottle, part of the six-packs that they arrived in around here a short while ago. Nice mashing of old and new world styles, I gotta say!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly creamy beige head, which leaves a bit of bonsai tree forest lace around the glass as it lazily settles.
It smells of crackery and biscuity pale malt, a minor caramel sweetness, white and black pepper mill dust, muddled tropical fruit notes, and more floral, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a still heady mixed peppercorn spiciness, more unnameable tropical fruit esters, some subtle earthy yeastiness, and a steady leafy, weedy, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its mostly just supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, just a wee bit of hop astringency taking things down a peg here. It finishes trending dry, the generic forest floor bitterness starting to assert itself over the still relevant Teutonic malt.
Overall, this seemed for the longest time to be just a well-made, American take on the Oktoberfest style, with a surprisingly tame West Coast hop treatment. However, after a spell, the hops eventually came out to frolic, but still in a manner that would make this a hearty (but hardly overbearing) autumn chill warmer.
Aug 16, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly creamy beige head, which leaves a bit of bonsai tree forest lace around the glass as it lazily settles.
It smells of crackery and biscuity pale malt, a minor caramel sweetness, white and black pepper mill dust, muddled tropical fruit notes, and more floral, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a still heady mixed peppercorn spiciness, more unnameable tropical fruit esters, some subtle earthy yeastiness, and a steady leafy, weedy, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its mostly just supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, just a wee bit of hop astringency taking things down a peg here. It finishes trending dry, the generic forest floor bitterness starting to assert itself over the still relevant Teutonic malt.
Overall, this seemed for the longest time to be just a well-made, American take on the Oktoberfest style, with a surprisingly tame West Coast hop treatment. However, after a spell, the hops eventually came out to frolic, but still in a manner that would make this a hearty (but hardly overbearing) autumn chill warmer.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.95/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
From the bottle, it pours a hazy autumn colored amber with a nice thick off-white head that slowly reduces as you watch. Caramel malts and some hops in the nose. The mouth gets caramel malt and roasted malt, along with some spicy hops. Nice!
Feb 14, 2019Rated by Idahoman from Minnesota
3.73/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Good but a little too sweet (ale) for me.
Jan 06, 2019Reviewed by BGDrock from Canada (ON)
4.04/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Hazy, dull, orange-amber; head is thick and has solid retention, off-white.
Sweet & warm toasted malt, caramel; squash, some spicey hops.
Malt forward at first, of butterscotch and toffee, but not too sweet; turns to balancing hop bitterness, of pine and resin and spice, the malt trailing through to the finish, really providing some backbone; body is soft and lightly syrupy, medium body and carbonation, very nice; medium dry finish.
Great interplay of flavours, a Fall delight, definitely worth a try.
Jan 02, 2019Sweet & warm toasted malt, caramel; squash, some spicey hops.
Malt forward at first, of butterscotch and toffee, but not too sweet; turns to balancing hop bitterness, of pine and resin and spice, the malt trailing through to the finish, really providing some backbone; body is soft and lightly syrupy, medium body and carbonation, very nice; medium dry finish.
Great interplay of flavours, a Fall delight, definitely worth a try.
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.25/5 rDev -14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 2.75
3.25/5 rDev -14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 2.75
Clear brownish amber color with a handsome head in the Orval chalice. Plenty sudsy and lively in the mouth. It seems like a good idea, to substitute a darker malt for the usual pale and inoffensive malt used with most IPAs. And I do like the roasted malt taste that this starts out with. But it's all too brief a honeymoon and the Amurrikan hops elbow their way in to take over. Overall it seems more flat and bitter and even on the harsh side. From the 12 oz bottle purchased in Washington.
Dec 08, 2018Reviewed by Mdog from Minnesota
3.78/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Amber, particles in suspension, good head.
Smell: Floral, bready aroma.
Taste: Spicy, herbal, bready, with some fruity, apple-like notes.
Overall: A very different take on an IPA. Seems to be like a mix of octoberfest and IPA, but using heaps of spicy, herbal hops instead of citrusy. Interesting to try and well made, but not one I'll probably return to.
Nov 04, 2018Smell: Floral, bready aroma.
Taste: Spicy, herbal, bready, with some fruity, apple-like notes.
Overall: A very different take on an IPA. Seems to be like a mix of octoberfest and IPA, but using heaps of spicy, herbal hops instead of citrusy. Interesting to try and well made, but not one I'll probably return to.
Reviewed by beersampler6 from Michigan
3.85/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Very interesting beer with a new combination of flavors that I hadn’t experienced before. Nice amber color with lots of fluffy head and just a little spotty lingering lacing. Smells like a mix between a malty, grain Pilsner with some floral and citrus hops of an IPA. Tastes similarly, along with some caramel and vanilla. Smooth mild thin mouthfeel, really good carbonation. I can always trust this brewery to turn out solid beers!
Nov 04, 2018
Hopzeit Autumn IPA from Deschutes Brewery
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
393 ratings
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