New Glarus Hop Hearty Ale

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Bottle: Courtesy of Styles. Aroma is a nice blend of piney hops and caramel. Pours a dark transparent amber with a small off-white head. Very nice lacing. Caramel malt up front with a pretty big hop finish. Hops are mostly piney with a touch of citrus. A very nice IPA.

Pours a reddish copper color with thick off-white head. It quickly fades to a 1/8" head and nice amounts of lacing leave there fingerprints on the glass as the beverage is consumed. Smells of Cascade hops with it’s floral and citrusy smell with subtle notes of pine. Taste is less hoppy then what you’d expect but still a delicious IPA. The hops beat up your tongue on the intial swallow and then the caramel malt comes in to finish the job. I swear I detected a faint roasted taste in this beer as well. Excellent IPA.

12 oz. bottle. Wow, this is a good one! the grapefruit & pine aroma from the dry hopping greets you first. appearance in my glass is of a tarnished copper color with an off-white head which disappears rather quickly leaving a thin layer of lace. there is a strong caramel malt backbone which helps to balance out the hop bitterness. mouthfeel is medium to almost full. NG is quickly becoming a new favorite, can’t wait to try the new Unplugged Imperial IPA after tasting this one. Highly recommended!!!

Pours dark orange/ amber with decent tan head. Big pine hop aroma fades as it warms. Flavor is not as hoppy as aroma suggests. Mostly sweet malt/caramel with some citrus and pine in the finish. Long lingering hop aftertaste. Getting huge hop belches from this as I write.

Wonderful floroal aroma. Nice copper color. Smallish head. A tasteful balance of bitter Cascade and a caramel sweetness. Seems a bit mild for an IPA, but I love it. I think it’s a tad better than Bell’s Two Hearted. One of my new favorites from a quality brewer.

Bottle acquired in trade with Ughsmash (thanks!). Poured a darker reddish/amber color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of pine, citrus, and some malts. Tastes of Caramel, pine, and some oranges and pineapples. Has a nice sweet to bitter balance.

Poured a reddish-amber color with very little head retention. Cascade hops are very evident in the aroma with grapefruit, lemon, and pine notes. Light woodiness and the aforementioned hoppy goodness noted in the taste. The taste, however, fell a little short (complexity and body) of what I expected. Aftertaste retained a little of the citrus hoppiness, but the taste was rather fleeting. Decent brew.

As "Super Hop Hearty" on cask at 2007 GTMW:
Porued a super-chunky medium caramel with a loose ring of white head. Aroma picked up sweet oak-infused caramel with some odd off-notes that I couldn’t pick out.. some veggies, and came across as stickly. Toasted caramel at the flavor base with caramel and leafy notes surrounding.. herbal bitterness came through on the back-half.. OK, but I have to say I enjoyed the regular Hop Hearty more.. lower carbonation from the cask treatment with a high level of bitterness.. the balance was off, though, and this felt OK at best. 6 3 6 3 12

Thanks to lamas (via StewardofGondor) for the bottle. 12 oz. bottle. Pours a red/amber with no head. A thin ring of lace remains. Nice floral aroma, citrusy too - the Cascade dry hopping is clearly evident. Great hoppy taste but remarkably smooth and not overly bitter for an IPA. This is good beer.