Mash House Hoppy Hour IPA

Brewed by The Mash House Restaurant & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Fayetteville, North Carolina USA

This beer is pretty awesome, except when you try to pour it into a pint glass. Even careful pouring results in heady spill. Other than the head, this beer has a great smell and taste. Hops rules the world for this Fayetville brew. One warning: contrary to the label’s claim, Fayetville, NC is NOT picturesque.

In the 12 oz bottle. This is now called "Hoppy Hour IPA." Pours with an EXPLOSIVE head that will not fit into a pint glass nor a bathtub. When I bottle my homebrews before they have attenuated, I sometimes make a beer with a head like this. Brewer’s Mistake Alert!!! Cloudy golden color. Barry Bonds steriod-type lacing. You could harvest the lacing and stuff a pillow with it. Aroma of cascade hops. Awesome extreme bitter flavor. I like.

Pours a brilliantly clear copper color, this one is quite a beauty to look at. A pretty stream of bubbles rises from the bottom of my tulip glass, which supports a wispy pale tan head. The aroma is dominated by a distinct hoppiness that has notes of pine trees, apricots, tangerines, grapefruit, and tropical fruit.

The taste is lightly sweet up front, but quickly becomes dominated by a pleasing sharp bitterness and a healthy kiss of hop flavors. The flavor is reminiscent of a mix of sharp herbalness, pine needles and citrus fruit. This really has a solid bitterness to it, it is really sharp an lingers on my tongue long after the beer has left my throat. The underlying maltiness supplies a nice sweetness, which really magnifies the fruity hop character of this beer. The great thing about this beer is that it is light on the palate, yet still delivers a balanced WHOMP of hoppiness all throughout.

This beer was far better than I was expecting, and the growler is almost two weeks old, yet still tastes fresh and vibrant. I am really enjoying this awesome example of an American IPA. If anything I have not given this beer as much credit as it deserves.

well again its an IPA. Pours a kind of cloudy dark yellow with a hopy aroma. flavor was a bit to bitter for me and is something ill prob not ever have again.

Bottled as Hoppy Hour IPA. Pours a cloudy copper with a nice white head. Aroma is different - hoppy but with belgian/clove feel. Taste is extremely odd, harsh and just flat out foul. I wonder if this was infected. Tastes like they threw some Belgian brew spices in with a VERY grapefruity bitter IPA. Very metallic aftertaste. Drainpour.

a damn nice ipa. bottle. pours out dark yellow with a tan head. smells hoppy just like hop oil. dry and yet creamy at the same time. smooth drinking IPA, and certainly a top beer for NC. quite good

Really nice head for an IPA. DIfferent than other IPAs I have had, but really good. The flavors are pretty accurately described in the previous rating. Will buy this one again. Had in a bottle, near the town of production.

Color’s a golden thing in the glass, a honeyish amber, perhaps, trapped under an enormous head of creamy foam, leaving lace. Looks nice, invites me further for a sniff...Spruce and pine are here, though not too forward, and citric fruit, grapefruit, lemon, and tropicals, too, I’m getting some pineapple, for sure...vibrant, yet clean...nice hop combo in the nose, I like it, but now for the taste...slick texture, dripping hop oils all over the palate, almost pulpy with the fruity feel of it. Medium to light in body, long, clinging finish, very tasty...reminds me of a perennial favorite, Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. smooth, delicious, with a persistent hoppy bite...I like it, I like it! Slightly imbalanced, but not significantly to dissuade the discriminating drinker! This is one I could drink all the time!