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Deschutes Hop Henge Imperial IPA

Deschutes Hop Henge Imperial IPA - Imperial/Double IPA

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 Percentile 
93
overall
Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA

Bend, Oregon USA

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2313.65/5.03.63/5.0Winter8.1%59.3Snifter, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
Our latest Bond Street Series brew, Hop Henge, got bumped up to Imperial status this year. With a few more IBU’s than last year’s version, this IPA has a monumental amount of hops coming in just under the century mark for IBU’s. Two and one half pounds of Centennial, Cascade, and Northern Brewer hops are added, per beer barrel, and another half pound is used in the dry hopping process giving Hop Henge a whopping 95 IBU rate. A hearty malt bill, consisting of Crystal, Pale and Carastan malts, creates a biscuity note while building a dense base supporting the mammoth hop presence.
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 BeerandBlues2 (3201), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Apr 30, 2009  
Draught at Najas Place. Pours clear amber with a small, white head, diminishing with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (caramel, bread), heavy hop (flowers, perfume, pine), average yeast (dough) with notes of oak, vanilla, and brown sugar. Medium bodied, alcoholic texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average bodied, moderate sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness.


 harbuck76 (127), El Cajon, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/517/20
Apr 26, 2009  
On tap at stone. Pours a dark amber/ copper with a small off white head. Aroma is citrus ,pine hops. taste is citrus ,sweet caremal malts. easy drinker.


SaulusHumulus (47), Helsinki, Finland
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/513/20
Apr 2, 2009  
Bottled. Pours beautifully orange with lovely white head. Aroma has a lot of aromatic hops, fruits, peach and grapefruit, but most of all a nice amount of bitter, piny hops. Presence of hops is immense and intense, though I kind of get the feeling that it sort of rolls over all the slight nuances rendering the beer pretty simple, though tasteful. Anyways, I love that powerful bite of bitter, piney hops that this beer gives on the palate. Overall pretty solid beer.


 daknole (2802), Plantation, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
Mar 16, 2009  
Bottle from the Otown throwdown. Pours an amber color with a very nice whitish head. Aroma is full of grapefruit peel, christmas tree and some sweet malt. Flavor carries through from the aroma. Hoppy and malty and delicious!


 Lagunitasfan (432), San Diego, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 22, 2009  
22 oz bottle from Beverages 4 Less. Burnt orange-amber with a big fluffy head. Nose is perfect IIPA. Hoppy, piny, sweet citrus. Flavor is sweet and hoppy. Grapefruit and pineapple. Some creamy smoothness too. Yummy.


nautwerks (2), , Washington, USA
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3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/105/513/20
Feb 4, 2009  
On tap at Empire Ale House. Poured nice dark amber, almost orange with a great head on it. Aroma was pine resin-ey and malty. smelled great. Nice malt backbone but there was a flavor I can only explain as over-the-top minty. Like I just ate an Altoid and drank a pint. Made me not want to finish the pint. Nice warming alcohol and nice and strong! Don’t know if I could make myself buy a pint of this again. That minty flavor was simply overpowering.


 Beardface (977), Eugene, Oregon, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Dec 9, 2008  
Bright orange pour with a huge white head and nice lacing. Big aroma of grapefruit and other citrus and a nice big taste of citrus and roasted malts with a huge hop presence. Really damn tasty this one.


 presario (2953), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Nov 20, 2008  
Orange with a very big head and lacing. Strong hop scent settles down and seems hard to find mid-glass. Hops land on your tongue and then explodes throughout your mouth. bit of a dark eucalyptus quality.



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