Sweet hop aroma. Crisp hop bite, gives way to a harsh hop flavor. Lingering hop aftertaste. Additional drinks mellows the hop edge and makes it nice.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
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Upper Hand UPA
Sweet, almost vinegar aroma. Very smooth malt flavor with no significant hop flavor.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Short’s Spruce Pilsner
Strong pilsner aroma. Starts smooth them comes in with a sharp bite at the back end. Aftertaste you can taste the spruce flavor. A bit minty. In hindsight, I’m not sure I want my beer to taste like a pine tree…
2.5 out of 5 Stars.
Fat Head’s Head Hunter
Very sweet hop aroma, almost like pineapple juice. Clean, sweet bite. Full-flavored, but not overpowering. Slight hop flavor lingers and fades out with some sweetness. A lot of floaters in there. Only 2.5 months old, and bought from the cooler, so should be ok.
5 out of 5 Stars.
Saugatuck Hop in Yer Rye
Clean hoppy aroma. Crisp flavor bite that comes in with a nice malt taste. Followed by hints of the rye sweetness but matched with a hop bite that keeps it from being too sweet. Fairly clean finish. Full flavored, but doesn’t come across as 8%, so it could be deceptive.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Ballast Point Grunion
Strong sharp aroma of hops. Clean hop taste that gets slightly bitter them blends smoothly into a nice slightly sweet malt taste. Very smooth, with nice lingering hop flavors.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Deschutes Inversion
Strong sweet aroma. Sharp mix of hop sweetness and malt sweetness. Finishes with a clinging malt flavor that’s both sweet and clean.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Blackrocks 51K IPA
Sweet hops smell with hints of fresh yeast. Crisp hop bite, with good mix of hops and malt. Dry, not to sweet or too much aftertaste. Maybe a hint of yeast flavor in mild aftertaste.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Stone Enjoy by 04.20.15
Strong sweet hop aroma, very succulent. Initial flavor has hop bite, then quickly changes to a mixed hop bouquet of flavors. Backed up by a hearty malt backing, but left with a hop bitterness than lingers. Very powerful flavors going on here, but excellently balanced and doesn’t give me any hints of its massive ABV.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Arbor Red Snapper
Sweet aroma, with a hint of roast malts. Nice crisp malt bite, replaced by smooth malt flavor. Ends with a roast malt taste.
4 out of 5 Stars.
