New Belgium Lips of Faith Fresh Hop

I picked up a bottle of New Belgium Lips of Faith Fresh Hop from Honeygo Wines & Liquors. The beer pours a golden color with a frothy white colored head that leaves specs of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of lemon, tangerine, passion fruit, orange, grass, pepper, and pine. The taste is light and refreshing with a nice citrus helping of lemon, pineapple, orange, tangerine, and passion fruit. The finish has some pepper, pine, spruce, and grass. The alcohol content is 7.0% ABV. This was a nice tasting fresh hop beer with plenty of citrus flavors, and it was absolutely easy to drink.

8 Wired Fresh Hopwired IPA

I picked up a bottle of 8 Wired Fresh Hopwired IPA from Discount Wines and Liquors in Boonton, NJ. The beer pour an amber color with a frothy white colored head that leaves specks of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of lemon, pine, spruce, passion fruit, caramel, and pineapple. The taste is passion fruit and pineapple forward with a solid caramel base. There is a dry pepper and spruce finish the slight hints of orange and tangerine. The alcohol content is 7.3% ABV. This beer had a solid and sweet caramel base with fresh and bitter hops that gave some great fruit flavors.

Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hop IPA

My fiancee picked up two bottles of Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hop IPA from Al’s of Hampden for me. The beer pours a golden color with some orange accents and a very lofty and frothy white head that leaves plenty of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of orange, pine, tangerine, lemon, sugar, and a hint of caramel. The taste is bitter but very fresh tasting with tangerine, orange, and lemon bringing a citrus punch at first before an oily and dry finish comes out to play. This finish is very bitter, and the after taste leaves some caramel behind to linger. The alcohol content is 6.5% ABV. If you are a fan of bitter hops that leave some oily resin behind on the tongue, this is the beer for you. It has great bittering components, but just enough citrus and caramel to balance it out.

Denver Beer Company Fresh Hop IPA

I decided to stop into the Denver Beer Company while out for Great American Beer Fest, as it was a new brewery and I had not been there previously. I ordered a glass of the Fresh Hop IPA first, as it was the perfect day for a harvest ale. The beer pours an orange-tinted amber color with a bubbly white head. The aroma consists of caramel, pine, grass, and lemon. The taste is big and bold especially for a harvest ale with roasted toffee, caramel, and pine and grass hops. The alcohol content is is not available online, but I would estimate it to be about 6.5% ABV. The Fresh Hop IPA from Denver Beer Company was one of the better harvest ales that I have ever had and it was mostly due to the excellent toasted toffee flavor that provided the base to this beer.