Left Coast/Oggis Hop Juice

Brewed by Left Coast/Oggis Pizza and Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Del Mar, California USA

On tap at Carmel Country Road. This batch was 7.99% listed. Orange with minimal lace. Strong with heavy malt, good mouthfeel. Every hop they can find and put together here, cascade, warrior, amerillo, etc. etc. And dry-hopping.

Oggi’s Corona. Poured a cloudy copper orange. Head was offwhite. Aroma is of citrus and grapefruit. Taste is much of the same; alcohol pretty well hidden; well balanced flavor. Some oiliness. Good beer.

GABF-on tap-pours an offwhite head with copper color. Aroma is citrus/grapefruit rind-hops. Taste is citrus/grapefruit rind-hops, faint malt. Slick mouthfeel. OK carbonation. 090228-22oz bottle Thanks decaturstevo for sharing. 4.0

Finally in a bottle and it’s 9.4%. 22ozzie sampled 8-6-2007. Robo Hop strikes again. Wow! Hop city. Pours a beautiful golden apricott color w/ a full, creamy froth. Head retention is good and leaves a thick downy lacing. Aroma is XXXtremely hopped up w/ fresh grapefruit. Good alignment for the sinuses. Full nectar w/ creamy residual effers. Massive malts are striken down by ROBO HOP. All taste buds are destroyed and laid to waste w/ the hop acid spewed forth by Robo Hop. These malts must have been on the run for some time to finally endure such an excruciating death. The finish is bittered xxxtremely leaving slought off organ matter to deal with. Bye bye malty backbone hello charred palate. This has to be one of the most hoppiest brews I’ve ever had and it’s so well balanced I could drink a few of them.******************************* *2.9* On tap. This brew is way over-rated. It doesn’t drink like a classic IIPA at all. It does pour golden and has a nice semi creamy froth the reduces to a fine dusty canopy w/ nice lacing. I’ll give ya that. The aroma is sweet citrus rind and malt. I’ll give you that but this is where it stops. The nectar on this brew is weak yeilding only a medium nectar componant. The flavors are big on grapefruit and it does behold some pretty snappy hops but the malt componant is not dense enough to carry it to classic. The finish has a cracker like texture to it, like biting down on a saltine (w/o the salt), kinda crunchy and very partch rendering. Agian, the malt should kick in here to balance it out but it is nonexistant. It also has a lifeless effer factor. Very mellow on the effers. This brew is under cooked. I’d prolly be happier w/ 16 ozzies of grapefruit juice w/ 100mls of Grey Goose dropped in it. I was really looking forward to this brew after all the hype. Needless to say I was let down.

From draught. Golden honey amber pour with a thin wisp of white head. Citrusy aromas of ruby red grapefruit zest, orange pith, and a bit of sprucy hop resins. Medium bodied, slightly syrupy mouthfeel with a mild carbonation. Loads of high alpha citrusy hops bring plenty of bitterness to the palate. Lots of pithy citrus rinds and white grapefruit pulp along with a smidgen of caramel malt characters. Very nice and well crafted, but doesn’t have any unique traits to truly set it apart from its imperial IPA peers. Still, an overall tasty example of the style.

On tap at Pizza Port, Carlsbad. Inadvertantly my 700th. Musky aroma of Columbus or Cascade, with hop resins and musky lemon tones domianting. Burnished copper pour, orange and gold. Flavor is a sweet, sticky honey-lucious. Astringent and heavily bitter, I find the hop character in this beer somewhat one dimensional and resin driven. There isn’t an interplay between floral and biting. Yet, flavorful and full of cascade orange qualities. There are pears and tannic pear skins, that play with a more grapefruit level. Palate edges sweet and sticky, but a long continually morphing hop character build creative play.

On tap at Scottsdale, AZ location. Good citrus hop aroma. Copper colored body with off white head and good amount of lacing. Dry citrus flavor alond with a strong dose of hop bitterness. Medium bodied for this style I guess. Dry palate will need a water after this one.

From the tap@Oggis in Corona, CA. Orangy yellow with a thin to med white head. Wow losts of hop, grapefruit, oranges. Medium body with a dry bitter finish. Really Good!!