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Terrapin Side Project Hop Shortage Ale

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1663.58/5.03.55/5.0Special6.2%81.6Shaker, Tulip
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2008 will forever be known in professional brewing circles as the year of the Hop Shortage. Brewers everywhere are scrambling to find hops just to produce their standard line of beers. Some are so nervous they are even cutting back on brewing hoppy beers. NOT US! In typical Terrapin fashion we are going against the grain (or against the hops, so the speak). If there is going to be a shortage of hops, why not put them all into one huge hop bomb of a beer? We hope you enjoy our HOP SHORTAGE ALE.
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 jmikolich (405), Athens, Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/59/103/516/20
Aug 23, 2008  
22oz, bottle, from Chucks in Chagrin Falls, pours a copper orange and smells and tastes like an IPA.. this one is a tad soapy and slippery... gulping this is no problem as the bitterness has faded a bit by consumption time.


 smith4498 (901), Miami, Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/511/20
Aug 18, 2008  
Bottle courtesy of juiceisloose. Pours golden orange with white head. Citrusy hop aroma. Mildly sweet caramel with a soapy pine hop flavor. Medium body with average carbonation. This just wasn’t doing anything for me.


 Immy (1912), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Aug 17, 2008  
Bomber. Thanks to a few generous traders, I have had this multiple times. Clear amber with a big white head. Sweet citrus and grass, lightly malty. Grapefruit and orange flavors, some resiny pine, delightful! Tasty, and not as hop-imposing as the label seems.


 mgumby10 (1858), Jupiter, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Aug 10, 2008  
Courtesy juiceisloose. Pours a cloudy, gold orange, with a small white head. Smells pretty hoppy, with a decent malt backbone, and some grapefruit citrus as well. The flavor is more on the unbalanced hoppy side. Kind of stinging bitter hops attack the palate. The grapefruit comes in towards th finish to help it somewhat, but it could of used more of a malt presence for some balance. Still a decent drinking IPA.


 dmac (1469), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/514/20
Aug 5, 2008  
22 oz bobmber thanks to TBC shared at BCTC 2008. Pours a clear amber brown with a lasting medium sized frothy white head. Big hoppy aroma with lots of citrus, slight pine, caramel malt and some brown bread. Hops are fading slightly in the flavor but the bitterness remains along with caramel and grain. A very nicely done IPA that was perfect on a cool evening.


 alexsdad06 (1082), Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Aug 4, 2008  
22 oz. bottle. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small/medium white head. The aroma is moderately sweet grapefruit citrus and caramel malts. The flavor is lightly fruity, citrus hops, caramel malts. This has moderate sweetness, but finishes with medium bitterness. Lighter bodied with a short finish.


 Quiver (139), Augusta, Georgia, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/517/20
Aug 3, 2008  
Awesome brew... nice strong hop flavor with enough malt to balance it out. Light orangeish red color, cloudy, and nice lacing


 Angeloregon (2025), Portland, Oregon, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 2, 2008  
Thanks to Gordon for the taste of this one--Poured a bright unassuming amber-orange with a tiny white head. Nose of sweet, bitter hops and malts. Caramel and chewy, earthy. Rather thin and subdued for an IPA, but not bad. Love the name!



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