Hermitage Single HOP Admiral

Brewed by Hermitage Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
San Jose, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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bottle from BevMo, pours light amber with a medium light tan head. Large bubbles leave thin lacing. Aroma is citrus forward with big juicy ruby red grapefruit notes, some pineapple. Very fruity and sweet smelling. Flavor is sweet caramel and toffee malts upfront, some bitter toast and biscuit ending with big herbal and citrus rind hop bitterness. The bitterness lingers for a while and the palate is left dry. Not my favorite of the bunch but still good and priced well.

Poured from the bomber into a shaker. Cloudy amber colored with a brownish hue and slight cream colored head. Aroma is caramel malt base with floral and herbal hop notes. The hops combined with the sweeter malt base create an earthy taste with a slightly bitter finish. This drinks like a red ale. Medium to full body with a slightly sticky mouthfeel and a long astringent finish. This is a nice beer, but definitely seems more like a red ale than an IPA to me.

slightly darker tea with shorter lasting cream white head. Heavy lotion, light caramel, plant and pine hops. Flavor is more paper, high bitterness, not very fresh and no balance.

651mL thanks to beerandblues2. A typical "red" IPA with way too much specialty malt including crystal malt. Stale, cheesy hop nose. Way too dark of SRM for style. Nose brings out sugary strawberry cheesecake from a gas station. Typical stale hop nose plus specialty malt sugar. Taste is malty, super thick, loads of maple and resin bitterness. Such a full body it’s almost impossible to drink. Way too much unfermentables in suspension lead to a sticky, cloying body. Couldn’t drink it.

Not a very good IPA. Extremely bitter. Someone may enjoy it, but not for us. Had in bottle. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle. Pours hazy amber with a medium, frothy white head, medium white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is celery, resin, pine and herbal hops, biscuit and straw malt and tropical fruity esters. Flavor is heavy hops and bitterness, supporting malt and a dry finish. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation.

Super sweet caramel ips, far too sweet to be good, lots of astringent ice tea. Nasty shit. Dumped.

22oz bottle: Pours a clear deep orange amber with a spotty-lacing off-white head. Has a semi-sweet light caramel malty nose and some grassy peppery hops. Starts with decent fullness and sticky dark caramel malts with some earthy grassy hop bitterness before a drier bittersweet finish.

Bottle. Pours hazy gold/copper with thin, fizzy white head; short retention and minimal lacing. Aroma is grassy hops, caramel and biscuit malt, oranges, apples, and light spice. Flavor is mostly hops, medium bitterness, with supporting malt and faint fruit esters; dry finish. Medium body, carbonation, and warmth.

Bomber poured a clear orange amber with a lasting amber head. Aromas of carmel, earthiness, orange and mint. Palate wasmnedium bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, earthiness,grapefruit, light pine and light mint with a crisp dry bitter lingering grapefruit finish.

22oz bottle. Rating #17. Hazy bright burnt orange color with a light beige head. Sweet citrus aroma with a bit of pine. Medium bitterness, more citrusy sweetness with a bit of oxidation. Decent. (2270)