Heelch O’Hops – Anderson Valley Brewing Company
8.7% ABV
Purchased at Curtis Park Market ($6.99/22 oz. bottle) and poured into tulip glasses.
This Double IPA from Boonville-based Anderson Valley – makers of the venerable Boont Amber Ale – pours a solid cantaloupe gold with a mid-sized dusty white head and thick lacing on the glass. The nose leaps out of the bottle on first pour, dominated by frosty pine and bitter-sweet citrus, mostly lemons and grapefruits with some candied orange and dewy grass. Pine sap bitterness and grapefruit zest obliterate the tongue on first swallow, making a monstrous impression on the palette in the vein of West Coast hop bombs. Although it gets a little more buttery and cracker-y on subsequent swallows, Heelch O’Hops is drinkable but not for timid palettes, and yet it’s not particularly nuanced either.
3.5 Toasts
3.5 Toasts
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Thanks to SacBee guy with three names, I found your site.
What a job you have here. Need a field tester?
Not to state the obvious, I will work for beer…
Lately I’ve been into the so-called session beers ( in other words, I have become a wimp in my old age).
My favorite beers are the cask ales. Other than Bonn Lair, around here, I have to wait for Thursday of beer week at Rubicon.
Thank goodness the Public House at AT&T Park has them, and for only five bucks (a steal at the ball park).
Great site you have, the art work is a treat. Come check out the little brewery in Woodland and I’ll buy. (No, I do not have any interest in the place, just in their good beer.)