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Deschutes Hop Henge Imperial IPA

Deschutes Hop Henge Imperial IPA - Imperial/Double IPA

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

Bend, Oregon USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
2313.65/5.03.63/5.0Winter8.1%59.3Snifter, Tulip
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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.
 Most Recent Top Raters Highest Ratings Who's Rated This?  
 Ramenen (453), San Salvador, El Salvador
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 8, 2008  
Thanks to Juancho. Drank it in Panajachel, Guatemala. Pours nice golden, hazy color with a good white head. Aromas of pine and grass. Medium bodied, well balanced between malts and hops, nice complexity in the hop flavor, different levels of flavors along your mouth.


 decaturstevo (1971), decatur, Tennessee, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 7, 2008  
Copper pour with white head and lace. Centennial hops and malt dominate (called out by jcwattsrugger). Very malty with medium hop finish. Slightly thin but good carb. A very solid drinker


 lb4lb (2011), Austin, Texas, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Jul 31, 2008  
Bottle in trade from ditmier. Thanks!
Pours a nice semi hazed amber with big beige head. Smell is fruity and not overly hoppy and a bit mild but nice. Taste is bitter fruit, tea and alcohol. Not bad, but not a good DIPA either. Pretty uninteresting flavors and too damn alcoholic to be very enjoyable. Mustered down about 1/3 of the bottle.


 MaltOMeal (642), Land of Sugar, Texas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Jul 29, 2008  
bomber thanks to dunk. Pours a dark amber with an off-white head. Nose is of citrus and pine. Taste is of caramel malt, citrus and pine. Mouthfeel is medium with both sweet taste with carbonation and bitter finish.


jcdsmack (88), Henderson, Nevada, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/515/20
Jul 26, 2008  
Sweet caramel flavor nice hop aroma, very fragrant ctrus, great deep orange color thin white head but very nice retention Not as bitter as I expected with a name like hop henge but the bitterness lingers on the tongue helping to carry each sip over into the next and balance out the biscuity sweetness well crafted wonderfuly balanced.


 marcus (1821), Sacramento, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/517/20
Jul 25, 2008  
This amber ale poured with a thin beige head and a citrus aroma. The flavor is candied hops with a grapefruit finish. A very tasty brew.


 elihapa (1033), Honolulu, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/514/20
Jul 18, 2008  
Deschutes Hop Henge 7/17/08 (bomber. Pours a light orange-gold with a medium cream head. Aroma of intense hops and citrus (tangerine, grapefruit). Palate was full-bodied, and flavor starts out bitter and full of robust hops and marbled malt. Good, up ‘til that point! What follows – and I assume my bottle was pretty average – left a poor impression of this beer in my mouth. The big flavors began to cross and tangle with an inescapable and not entirely welcome boozy and sweet touch. Pretty soon, the creamy hop syrup I had enjoyed earlier had been seriously tainted by the flavor of alchohol. By the time I got done with a glass of this, I could not separate the different flavors present in this beer. Strange. I might still recommend this, though, for the aroma, initial flavor, and boldness.


 Schultsc (478), Henderson, Nevada, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/516/20
Jul 16, 2008  
Sampled both on top and subsequently from the bottle in Eugene, OR--rating is from the bottle. Medium-dark orange-amber color with a thin, fine, light tan head. Aroma of light lemony hops with subtle banana and spice with bottom notes of caramelized orange. Flavor consists of some grainy maltiness with dark, dense hop bitterness, and a little spiciness anlong with alcohol. Quite subdued and not at all what I was expecting froma double IPA from Deschutes. The body is slightly out of balance in terms of malt, alcohol, and hops dimensions. Somewhat underwhelming.



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