Hoppy Face Amber Ale

Brewed by Hoppy Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Sacramento, California USA

bottle..not to bad but not to great..hops,citrus..malt..amber orange color.. flavour is solid though

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of hops, grass, citrus, toasted malts, light caramel, and a bit of pine. Poured orange/amber in color with a medium to large-sized, dense, rocky, off-white head that diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Not sparkling. Good lacing. Flavor is medium bitter and lightly sweet. Tastes of hops, caramel, toasted malts, caramel, and a little pine. Light to medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Hoppy, caramel finish.

Bottle from BevMo in Vacaville, CA. Poured a cloudy reddish brown color. As others have said not very hoppy for the style. Overall just not very good. The palate was all over the place and just not well balanced.

My first beer from this brewery, although I thought I already had tried one. Oh well. Bottle. Pours a coppery amber clor with a huge off white head. Aroma of caramel, earth and a touch of grapefruit. Surprisingly, there was a really pronounced vegetable element to the aroma. Hard to really grasp this beer, as it was kind of a mix of styles. Some amber ale elements and some pale ale elements as well. Not very bitter for the style at all. Flavor was dominated by toasted, caramel malt with that same vegetable presence. A bit astringent and soapy. Bready as well. Quite strange, and not very good for the style. In fact, it was pretty bad.

~Pours a clear amber color with lasting creamy white head. ~Nice grapefruit hop scent with nice balance of sweet malts. ~Good balance in flavor. Strong hops and malts blend very well together. ~Medium feel, mellow bitter finish. ~No wonder this is their flagship brew. Good!

Bottle in Denver. Clear amber - white head. Knækbrød - swedish flatbread, hoppy, nice malty, sharpness, soapy, prape fruity. Unbalanced.

As good as this looks, it never quite lives up to its appearance. Very astringent, resiny, piney hop essence that dominates the drink. Small malt backbone, somewhat soapy and thin. Nice bready finish but the grapefruit and astringent sharp hops are not well balanced and do not bring the drink together.

This is too hoppy, grapefruity-bitter, and unbalanced, but has some good flavours underneath. It is copper with a medium, light tan head that slowly shrinks to a permanent thin head and even rings of thin lace. The aromas is bread, caramel, grapefruit, pine, dust, pretty nice a d bit like Lagunitas Censored. The taste is quite bitter, with lemon and grapefruit pulp, hints of pine, sweet caramel, and grain. There are good flavours, but it’s far too dominated by bitter citrus pulp character, drying, and unbalanced. In a way it resembles Bear Republic Red Rocket, but without the good balance of flaovurs and sweetness and bitterness, being far too off balance as described. Perhaps that’s because it’s classed as an IPA, something I did not relaize until coming here to review it. Anyway, it certainly has IPA qualities.