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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Pours a clear bronze orange with a thin ring of white bubbles. Has a fresh assertive grapefruity hop nose with light caramel malty sweet notes. Starts with good fullness and sweet lightly toasted pale malts with a juicy resiny hop flavor and bitterness for balance before a citrusy bittersweet finish. A very nice double ipa, it just could’ve used a little more head.

On tap at Franklin’s. Pours amber with a thin white head. Aroma is pine, citrus, grapefruit. Nicely bitter good strong hop presence. Malt backbone isn’t quite up to the task bit really nice DIPA offering.

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.

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.

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]

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 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.

Draft on 07/18/10. Came to the table a slightly hazy copper color with a skim of a tan head. A moderately pungent aroma of grapefruits, pine, caramel, and some biscuitiness. Medium-bodied. The flavor starts with a decent amount of caramel and a biscuity maltiness. Lots of grapefruits follow. Kinda resiny at the end. A touch of warming alcohol underneath it all. Quite tasty.

CASK at BSF GBBF 2010 ... darkn copper ... bubbly tan head ... big dry pine hop nose ... big big dry pine hop ... little toffee malt in linger .