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Rubicon Hop Sauce


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An Imperial/Double IPA brewed by
Rubicon Brewing Company

Sacramento, California USA

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73.84/5.03.63/5.0Special8.9%0Snifter, Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
This is a double IPA with huge flavor and aroma. The recipe has 10 different hop varieties: Summit, Columbus, Chinook, Cascade, Vanguard, Glacier, Goldings, Bravo and Sterling hops. Double dry hopped for your drinking pleasure!!!! We also put 10 pounds of New Zealand Mouteka hops in the serving tank for the final touch. The Rubicon is celebrating BATCH #3000 with the creation of our HOP SAUCE!

 timfoolery (361), California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20

Jul 16, 2008  
10 ounce sample at Rubicon in Sac. Served in a snifer, which highlighted the distinct grapefruit (juicy, at that) scents. The taste was similar with some floral notes. Smooth to start, hop hit in the middle, and a bitter finish. Not great on the palate later on, but it was a very good brew overall. It definitely gets close to the best of the genre for me.

 bb (2168), Martinez, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Oct 4, 2008  
Draft. Rich amber with a low off-white head. Grapefruit, pine, and sweet caramel malt. Grapefruit, pine tar, and caramel flavor with good bitterness. Not as sweet as I’d have thought from reading the reviews. Medium body. Lingering pine resin and grapefruit with sweet caramel.


 hapjydeuce (581), Carlsbad, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Sep 10, 2008  
On tap at O’Briens. Backlogged rating. Pours a dark orange with a medium one-finger white head that settles to a fine ring. Pine needle aroma with firm malted barley behind. The flavor leans quite sweet and malty, with a dry-hopped bitterness smashing the palate quickly towards the end of each sip. A good amount of carbonation gives a medium crispness to the finish, taking the edge off the sweet malts. Tasty!


 doubleo (842), San Diego, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/517/20
Aug 20, 2008  
On-tap at O’Briens. Pours hazy amber with a thin white head, good lace. Smells hoppy and very fruity sweet. Slight plastic smell as well. Tastes is very sweet and lemony hoppy. The sweetness lingers. Very nice flavor. Surprisingly thin, medium body, good carbonation.


 SuzyGreenberg (1043), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/104/515/20
Jul 31, 2008  
draft @ brewery - served in a goblet; clear, glowing orange and thin, white head fades quickly; syrupy, sweet and juicy hop aromas; huge nose on this one; sweetness smooths out the bitterness as the flavors never quite match the aromas; dry and bitter finish; seems to hold it together well despite all the hop varieties for a very tasty double IPA


 Taverner (485), San Ramon, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/514/20
Jul 22, 2008  
Pours amber with minimal head. Lots of piney resinous florals, but also way too much sugar. This would be EXCELLENT as a drier IPA. With the sweetness it seems more like a Barleywine than an IPA.



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