Flossmoor Station Hop Huffer IPA

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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22 oz bomber with olive green wax. Pours a murky gray golden honey with a medium sized off-white head. Aroma is buttery with hints of bitter hops and citrus. Taste of bitter hops, citrus with a buttery flavor.

22 oz bottle. Clear orange with a lacy white head. Nose is mandarin orange, peach, toffee and candied lemon peel. Delicate and delightful. Medium light with a sharp tingle. Taste is caramel, cantaloupe and orange peel. Pine and juniper kick in with a dry bitter finish. My new favorite Flossmoor IPA.

courtesy of nbutler pours a orange with a white head aroma hops perfume citrus flavor oily resiny hops citrus dank bitterness grass. good brew

Bottle. Pours cloudy orange/copper with a big off-white head. Piney hop nose with some orange and sweet malt. Orangy and piney hop flavor with a touch of malt before a bitter grapefruit finish. Very good stuff.

#1300 Bottle thanks to Rayboy. Clear amber with off-white head. Aroma is pungent citrus, pine and dry caramel, overall very pungent hop presence. Flavor is dry caramel upfront with citrus and some tropical hops, some deeper nutty, toasted malt as well. Medium to full, creamy body, very light carbonation. A fantastic wet hopped beer, everything I’m searching for in a wet hopped product, nice and resiny and fresh.

Had a couple of glasses on tap at brewpub. Pours golden orange with white head. Aroma is loaded with fresh hops, heavy citrus and tropical fruits and a touch of pine. Flavor is fresh hops, citrus, tropical fruits, a smidge of pine and light malts. Finishes bitter but is very fresh tasting. Medium mouthfeel and appropriate carbonation. Pretty good wet hopped IPA. Glad I was able to try it fresh.

Bottle from Binny’s (nee Sam’s) Clybourn. IPA #100. Pours a sticky coppery brown with slick head. Nose is funky Chinook with a slice of sweet orange from the Ahtanum and some dust. On taste, pretty good. Big bitterness, distinct wet hops smoothness with the expected missing floral punch. Nice and crisp and big. Can’t complain one bit, though it’s not a huge standout. Still, pretty damn tasty.

I thoroughly tasted this to the tune of at least three glasses at a mug club tapping at the brewpub. It poured a hazy light amber with a tall frothy head and laced the glass(es) heavily. What got me about this ale was the total frshness of aroma and flavor. There was plenty of juicy citrus hops in the smell, both pink and yellow grapefruit, lemon zest, tart oranges, and a touch of pine. There was a sturdy enough caramelly malt backbone to sustain the onslaught of hop flavors. The bitterness wasn’t intense, but did develop somewhat as the night wore on. A dangerous brew, since the sturdy ABV didn’t show itself until the drinking was done. Many thanks to Bryan and Richard for another dandy of an IPA.

650 ml wax sealed bottle
This was a great deal direct from Flossmoor. It must have been bottled not long ago because it tasted as if it had come directly from a tap. Once again Flossmoor has done a great job of a fall IPA. I could drink more of this easily.

Aroma / Appearance - Amber brown and radiant the faint white head shined under the afternoon sun. Grapefruit, citrus, malts, and pine shock the senses into paying attention. Everything works with the other components.

Flavor / Palate - Grassy citrus tones warm the mouth from the start. A malty aftertaste comes along with the smooth bitterness. Fresh and crisp this has a nice blend of hops and sweetness that draw you in. The only problem I would face is what to do once it was gone.

Dark green wax bottle from Binny’s. The beer pours a hazy amber-gold color with a medium fluffy light beige head that recedes steadily. Small patches of lacing on the glass. Piney hops aroma with some malty notes. Medium body with flavors of piney hops, earthy malt and fruit. The finish is earthy and herbal with a hoppy aftertaste. Pretty good overall.