Blue Point Hoptical Illusion

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Patchogue, New York USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy as well as very fruity. The flavor is sweet with light notes of alcohol coming thru the notes of grass, and leading to a dry hoppy and bitter end.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of Doodler. Pours a clear golden with a white head. Fresh, tropical hop aromas. Medium body, a little fruit and caramel and then a solid hoppiness. Bitter finish. Good. 260412

From cask. Pours hazy dark orange with a small tan head. Aroma is grapefruity and citrusy. Bitter, citrusy and mild grapefruity. Light and crisp hoppy. Bitter and easy into a medium dry finish.

Bottled. Deep amber colour, mediumsized beige creamy head. Aroma is honey, flowery hops. Flavour is the same with the hops being really big. Quite typical IPA still.

Bottled. Pale amber, average head. Rich lychee aroma. Sweet and fruity with clean, rounded mouthfeel and solid malt structure. Really hoppy with loads of oranges and lychee. salty, tarry finish. Well crafted, but does not score points for originality.

Bottle at Sune. Cloudy orange coloured with a small off-white head. Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel and peaches with noes of grass and hops. Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel, grass and hops. Dry hoppy finish.

Date: 07/18/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

slightly hazy gold, whispy off white head, touch of lace, sweet citrus aroma, bitter sweet flavor with a nice interplay beween some light carmel sweetness and lots of lingering hop bitterness, a distracting tart edge

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

At Oliver Twist
Amber color. Strong fruity hops (grapefruit…). The body structure is not very complex, the bitterness is pleasant, and very long.

Golden light brown colour. Deep piney hops with light but chewy malts. Somewhat thin body, though. Flavour continues with the aromatic themes of chewy crystal malt and piney hops. As the glass goes on, I get increasingly bored.

(12oz. bottle) Pours a clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of floral, grapefruit, and light pine. Flavor of hops (floral, citrus, pineapple) and caramel malt.