Lancaster Hop Hog IPA

Brewed by Lancaster Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA

Pours an amber color with nice red hues. Smells awesome. I love hops. Citrusy and Spicy. Tastes of apple with a bit of bitter and dry finish. I’m probalby drinking this one too cold but I’m thirsty.

Pours nice amber with a small white head, nice lacing. The aroma is pine and citrus with a touch of caramels. Big hop flavor, grapefruit, pine, low bitterness, some toffee as well, but fairly dry. Finish is short and pretty clean for the style, some bitterness and slightly soapy. Mouthfeel is light and a touch watery.

Very delicious IPA. This was my favorite Lancaster brew. Nice flowerly, hoppy flavor to it... not overly bitter and in fact more of an "easy" drink than most quality IPA’s. My fire was lit.

Bottle courtesy of jjpm74. Poured a reddish copper with a tan head that mostly disappeared but left light lacing. Aroma of pine, floral, grapefruit, and tangerine. Fruity flavor mixed with pine, orange, and a light chocolate background. Medium body with a light bitterness. Very easy drinking!

This pig of a beer has gone hog wild in the hop fields. It is an outstanding example of American IPA that is brewed with three malts and two hop varieties, Fuggles, and Cascades. At 7.9% abv, it is the proper strength of a proper IPA, and at 55 IBU has more than enough hop character to please any hop head. And that is the true beauty of this beer, its wonderful hop character. Too many brewpub/craft breweries make the mistake of brewing up one dimensional hop juice with 100+ IBU and throat peeling bitterness. And while many of us hop heads love the brutal bitterness of an over the top, extreme, hop monster, those examples are not what AIPA is really all about. What makes a great AIPA is one that not only has big hop bitterness, but has exceptional hop flavor and hop aroma. Hop Hog IPA is a great example of having it all, and is the type of AIPA you will want to drink a few of. Hop Hog IPA pours to a beautiful, slightly hazy deep golden to light amber color with a thick white head, and a moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is really aromatic, with waves of citrus/flowery hop aromas that grab hold, and just don’t let go. The palate is firm, with some good pale and sweet malt flavors that leads into wonderful fruity/lemony hop flavor. A nice balance of malt and hop flavor zings on the palate, making this such a flavorful yet drinkable beer. Hop Hog IPA finishes with more malt, fruit and hop flavors, then ends with a zesty, piney/citrus hop bitterness that lingers on the tongue and lets you know you had one hell of a good beer. This is an excellent example of AIPA with really great hop aroma, flavor, and bitterness. I think the IBU level of this beer at 55 IBU is perfect. A great AIPA does not have to be a 100+ IBU monster to deliver a good dose of "vitamin H". This beer has more than enough hop character to please any hop head, and is the type of AIPA that you can enjoy a few pints of. Be careful if you do, as the alcohol strength of this one might catch up with you. This beer is a fantastic aperitif beer, and would work well with spicy foods. I enjoyed this one with some loaded nachos at the Walnut Street Grille which is the brewpub/restaurant part of the brewery, and took a six pack of this one to go. It is great to know this beer will be available year round, and Hop Hog will join the ranks of great AIPA’s in my beer fridge.

draft & bottle. Nice hop aroma with notes of grapefruit and other citrus notes, lemon? Copper/Orange color with nice white head and good lacing. Medium bodied. Smooth mouthfeel with a strong dry bitter hop finish that isnt over powering. Overall it is a decent beer with some good aromas and flavor.

Anyone who doesnt think this isnt one of the best quaffing IPA’s on the market simply doesnt get it AT ALL. The whole point is that it has structure, and foundation. Too many breweries wanna just make an in-your-face IPA, yet none of them have foundation. This does, and that was the point when they brewed it. It isnt even remotely close to a scottish style ale whatsoever. A wonderful aroma of grapefruit & cedar. Flavor of chewy hops w/ faint notes of lemon. Crisp & clean, w/ slight woodsy notes-and THEN-the bitter hop finish. Nice & piney finish as well.

Bottle. Pretty damn hoppy; like chewing on flowers. Hints of grapefruit as well, but overall too sharp - needed some malts to smoothe it out.