Left Coast Hop Juice

Brewed by Left Coast/Oggis Pizza and Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Del Mar, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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UPDATED: AUG 6, 2007 Finally in a bottle and it’s 9.4%. 22ozzie sampled 8-6-2007. Robo Hop strikes again. Wow! Hop city. Pours a beautiful golden apricott color w/ a full, creamy froth. Head retention is good and leaves a thick downy lacing. Aroma is XXXtremely hopped up w/ fresh grapefruit. Good alignment for the sinuses. Full nectar w/ creamy residual effers. Massive malts are striken down by ROBO HOP. All taste buds are destroyed and laid to waste w/ the hop acid spewed forth by Robo Hop. These malts must have been on the run for some time to finally endure such an excruciating death. The finish is bittered xxxtremely leaving slought off organ matter to deal with. Bye bye malty backbone hello charred palate. This has to be one of the most hoppiest brews I’ve ever had and it’s so well balanced I could drink a few of them.******************************* *2.9* On tap. This brew is way over-rated. It doesn’t drink like a classic IIPA at all. It does pour golden and has a nice semi creamy froth the reduces to a fine dusty canopy w/ nice lacing. I’ll give ya that. The aroma is sweet citrus rind and malt. I’ll give you that but this is where it stops. The nectar on this brew is weak yeilding only a medium nectar componant. The flavors are big on grapefruit and it does behold some pretty snappy hops but the malt componant is not dense enough to carry it to classic. The finish has a cracker like texture to it, like biting down on a saltine (w/o the salt), kinda crunchy and very partch rendering. Agian, the malt should kick in here to balance it out but it is nonexistant. It also has a lifeless effer factor. Very mellow on the effers. This brew is under cooked. I’d prolly be happier w/ 16 ozzies of grapefruit juice w/ 100mls of Grey Goose dropped in it. I was really looking forward to this brew after all the hype. Needless to say I was let down.

22 oz bomber. Pours to a slightly hazy orange color, with a thick, creamy, white head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is fragrant with zesty citrus and piney hop aromas. The palate is firm, with good pale, and caramel malts, paired with zesty/tangy hop flavors of grapefruit and lemon. This beer finishes with more good pale and caramel malt sweetness up front, the ends with a zesty piney/citrus hop bite that lingers. Wow. I found this beer to be an outstanding example of a double IPA. Tons of hop aroma, flavor, and bitterness, with a good malty base to stand up to the hop assault. This is hop juice, in a very good way. A perfect aperitif beer, and a nice beer to sip and relax with as a hop coctail, after a long hard day at work.

22 oz bottle. Copper/white head. Hops, citrus, pine aromas. Extravagant & in your face use of hops. Balanced and intricate flavors with small malt. Citrus. Bitter but not too offensive. Flavor stays with you.Could drink all night long but 9.4% says you wont be doing too much else.

Poured from tap into a large snifter. Light but deep reddish/amber with a thick white head that gives way to thick lacing. Aroma is citrus and pine. Taste matches, but definitely heavy on the pine. Very dry finish that lasts for awhile, giving way to slight sweetness.

Very Well Done!!! Now is the time for all good men to sample great beers. Not justly satisfying the parched tongue, but justly imbibing the taste and aroma and the escence of a nice beer

Bottle. The hazy gold-orange brew boasts everlasting sudsy foam and lingerie lace. A hedonist’s cornucopia of grapefruit and tangelo, Kaffir lime, mango and peach, and fresh cigar scents welcome me, ushering a mouthwatering flavor melange of cookiedough malt and juicy, tropical fruity hops with hints of mint, quinine and pine. The palate is malty yet not sweet nor caramelly... a medium viscosity, it feels sugary, but also creamy and fluffy, and tacky with hops resins; fabulously tactile without being thick or chewy. The finish features a smoky bitterness and bracing citrus pith aftertaste. Outstanding.

Pours a dark orange to amber color with a fat white head and a lot of lacing. Nose of strong pine, citrus, on top of caramel malt, Medium bodied with a very smooth yet sticky mouthfeel. Lots of hop flavor and a dry bitter finish. Wonderful tasting beer and hides the high alcohol content very well..

This amber ale is about as flavorful as a beer can be. Very malty and hoppy, yet balanced and creamy. The alcohol is not real noticeable, but it hits you toward the bottom of the glass. This is a great brew.

On tap at Oggi’s Mission Viejo. Everything you would expect from a California Imperial IPA. Tons of hops up front offset by a terrific malt finish. I did not notice the high alcohol until it was time to leave. Very good beer. Next time I would try to get it in a snifter and only have a half.

what i like to call a "hops masturbation session." ridiculously hoppy in flavor, yet still drinkable. like eating a barrel of barley with an acre of pine trees with a few sliced lemons on top. stunning without being annoying ’cuz there’s a solid malty body underneath this nonsense. i drank a pint while reading a kurt vonnegut book at the bar of the toronado on a ridiculously busy monday night when the bartender was pissed and some portugese winery intern hit on me . what a great beer.