Holgate Hopinator

A warm welcome to what is the most blog evasive beer on the record so far if you don't count the dark age lager days. This beer's actually been tried and tested a number of times previously, but somehow managed to elude photography each time.

Makes sense then that this seems highly unphotogenic when finally caught on camera - you'll have to take my word that the above seems quite distorted from the usually much more pleasant looking reality.

This beer usually generates quite a lovely head, and appears a light amber in colour. It's sedate and settled in the glass, looks comfortable in aeration. It sits on the transparent side of the spectrum, consistent with the relatively low for a DIPA 7.0% payload.

Head gives off quite fruity, juicy hops, and floral notes. Mouth .. bitter up front, eases into a distinctly sweet middle range body, then a lingering low background bitterness.

For a DIPA this is definitely on the light side, but nevertheless delivers good bitterness up front tempered with that earthy, almost marijuana-like hop character, green and grassy, pretty pleasant. Good drinking. 7.5