Franklins Sir Hop-a-Lot

Brewed by Franklins Restaurant, Brewery & General Store
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Hyattsville, Maryland USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle from the brewer: Pours a hazy orange with a thin white head, huge citrus aroma, starts and ends very bitter with a grapefruit ending, medium bodied with subtle carbonation.

Tap at Franklins. Clear orange amber pour. Weak head. Collar of white foam. Decent lace. Sticky, gummy nose with a lot of butterscotch. Taste is not too astringent or boozy. Soft up front moving to very dusty with bitter orange peel. Easier to drink than the normal IPA surprisingly. Not bad. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Growler shared at Jimmack’s. Pours clear amber. Nose and taste of spicy hops, citrus and caramel malt.

Cask gravity @ GBBF 2010. Pours a slightly hazy copper color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity hoppy bitter grapefruit aroma. Fruity malty fresh hoppy bitter grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty very hoppy bitter grapefruit finish.

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 10, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium orange color with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, pine, light resin. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100803]

on tap&growler-pours a white head with gold/orange color. Aroma is citrus/pine, 2nd medium malt. Taste is is citrus/pine hop bite, 2nd medium malt/grainy-caramel. Good carbonation.

Growler at jimmack’s invitational ’10. Poured a clear orange body with a small foamy white head. Aroma of citrus hops, grapefruit, toast and cereal. Dry citrus flavors with grains and toast and a touch of sweet honey. Great palate with a medium body with strong bubbly tight carbonation and a bitter lingering finish. Really nice.

Aroma:humle malt citron grape Ud.:gylden klar Skum:hvidt luftig langhold Efter smag:sød moderat bitter hård Krop:fuld For.:tør Brus:flad cask @gbbf 10

Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 03/08/2010 Big hop aroma. Golden coloured strong in alcohol hoppy and fruity with a pine flavour. A hint of dryness in a bitter finish.

Cask@GBBF2010. Ambery golden colour, small head. Aroma is fruits, wood, nectar, some alcohol as well as some slight caramel malty notes. Flavour is fruits, fruits, fruits, wood and some floral hops, herbs and some mild alcohol.