8 Wired Fresh HopWired
A wet hopped version of our flagship IPA, HopWired.
3.8
205 reviews
Warkworth, New Zealand
Community reviews
Bottle just bought today at Value On Liquor Store, Vancouver; unfortunately it says Feb 2014, so this beer is at least 1½ years old; batch 124
It pours a beautiful amber color, hazy, with medium sized head. As now it’s expected, from the color we get that the flavor indeed rests on cereals and caramel, from the date that the hop aromatic components are lost. Good beer, obviously not what it was supposed to be though.
This bottle has a BBE label on the bottom of the bottle; it’s not the worst solution, some put it on the cap, some with unreadable ink on brown glass, but it’s also not the first place to look for; take example from Stone Enjoy By, the date is the most visible thing on the label!
Keg at the 4th Copenhagen Beer Celebration, Session 2, 01/05/2015.
Hazed orange amber with a decent off white covering.
Nose is fresh hops, straw, green hop notes, bitter orange, pale malt, light bread tones.
Taste comprises earthy hops, citrus peel, pine, apricot, straw, orange pith.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
Solid IPA.
Draft. Very rich and really fresh aroma of fruits, raisins, papaya, mandarin, melon and other exotics. Taste: juicy, mega fruity, mega hopped, excellent IPA!
From tap at CBC 2015. Clear amber colour with a white head. Aroma and flavour of hops, fruit, peach, pine, malt and caramel.
On tap at CBC15. Clear golden amber with white head. Aroma fruity with caramel, citrus, peach, apricot and pine. Taste is similar, nicely balanced sweet caramel malts and bitter hops, lots of fruity notes, citrus and pine.
Tap@CBC 2015, Blue Session - golden pour with white head. Aroma and taste is grassy and herbal hoppy, tropical fruity, some floral notes throughout, pine needles, some caramel malts, bitter finish.
[5/1/15] Draught sample at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2015. 2nd session. Aroma of “green” hops, a bit oniony. Flavor of “green” hops, with a bit of malt sweetness, mildly bitter. Medium-bodied.
Draught sample at CBC 2015. Clear orange colour with a small, white head. Fruity aroma with caramel malts, citrus, peach, spices and pine needles. Taste is bitter. Medium body. Finishes dry and bitter with pine needles and caramel malts. Excellent IPA.
Draught at CBC 2015, blue session, with Ken, Colin, Reuben and Alex. Golden beer with a small head. Hoppy wort aroma, grassy, hay, floral notes. Hoppy wort flavor, grassy, bready. Far below par from this brewery, is something wrong?
Tap at CBC 2015, Copenhagen. Originally rated 20150501. Colour is cloudy orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, sweetness, pine, hops and malts.
CBC xv. Pours a clear golden with a white head. Sweet and dry. Aromas of earthy hops with some pale malts. Hints of residual sugars and white pepper. Medium bodied. Medium to soft carbonation. Bitter finish
From tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2015, Blue session. Pale golden color with off-white head. Heavy hoppy aroma, pine, citrusy, grapefruit, tropical fruits, light malty caramel. Sweet and bitter taste fruity piney like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation
Tap @CBC15. Clear amber, sudsy white head. Aroma has grapefruit and peach. Smooth and mellow mouthfeel. Sweet grapefruit and peach flavour. Nice.
Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours ggolden with a white head, lacings. Aroma of light malt, caramel, fresh fruity hops, grapes, melon, peach. Flavor is malt, caramel, fruity hops. Medium body, soft carbonation, light bitter finish. 010515
Sample at CBC 2015.
Orange with a white head. Pleasant hoppy aroma and taste of pineapple, mango, grapefruit, caramel and some light malt. Medium carbonation and with a nice bitter finish. A nice one.
Pours hazy apricot low white head
Aromas of peach, mango, caramel, resin
Taste has nice notes of hoppy tropical fruits, caramel, resin
Awesome IPA! Nose starts quite caramely with intense hints of fruitiness, grapefruit, lemon, peach, passion fruit. Same goes in taste - decent sweet malty background with expressive amount of hops.
Starts sweet, but bitterness is overtaking step by step making nice bittersweet harmony.
500ml bottle. the orange colour is very attractive，with creamy foam. Taste very fresh with strong tropical fruit aroma.Great IPA.
Massive amount of stable foam. Nice orange color. Looks great! Mango-grapey aroma, reminds me of some other Sauvin beers I’ve tried. Taste is sweet-fruity, red berries, tropical fruits at the beginning, caramely, then a great bitterness towards the finish. Superb New Zealand IPA, and a nice beer for my 175th rating :)
500ml bottle from Mikkeller webshop. Deep orange-brown amber colour, creamy foam head and aroma of mango, caramel, hoppy. Taste is malt caramel balanced with flowery tropical fruits, citrus grapefruit & pine resiny bitterness. Smoothish slightly oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, hoppy lingering dry bitter finish. Very drinkable IPA.
Bottle from Ammersin 5, Vienna.
Dark amber, hazy body, with a medium, creamy, light beige head.
Very fresh, fruity aroma of lychee, red berries, melon, apricot, citrus, some pine, some vanilla.
Tastes of citrus, lychee, berries, apricot, some pine, biscuit, caramel.
Mouthfeel is medium, oily, with a medium carbonation and it finishes medium bitter, slightly dry, with lemon zest, pine, lychee and other fruits and some sweet malts.
Tasty! Very fresh, with loads of fruits, especially some lovely lychee notes and also with a smooth malt backbone. Overall this is a superb wet hop IPA!
50cl bottle pours hazy deep golden orange with a thin off-white head and immediate aroma of freshly cut pine boards and citrus. Taste is juicy pine, juniper, and toasty malt with a mild strawberry-caramel-sweet/grapefruit-bitter finish. Mouthfeel is pleasantly active with a slight dryness at the end.
Bottle @ Joes. Slightly hazy amber colour with a small off-white head smells strawberry ice cream, hops, bitter, fresh. Tastes strawberry, hops, drop fruit duo. Medium body, soft carbo.
September 5, 2014 - on draught at BrewDog (Camden). Five Pounds the half? Okay, sure. Refractive clear copper-amber with lasting thick mottled beige head. Aroma of alcohol, gluteny stickiness and light but pervasive resin bitterness - a little toasted grain too. Taste - yeah, hoppy, malty - straddles the barleywine/strong IPA boundary - plenty of floral bitterness too - quick good. Thick, decent carbonation, starts pretty massively malty and finishes reasonably bitter, some alcohol drying too, some grapefruit pith in the linger - pretty damned solid beer.
500ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, dark copper colour with small to average, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Piney, hoppy aroma, hints of grapefruit, pineapple and orange. Taste is slightly biting bitter hoppy, piney, hints of cardboard, some pineapple, caramel malty basis; lasting, biting bitter hoppy finish.
Süßer, zuckrig malziger Antrunk. Nicht ganz runder Hopfen, grasig, zu süß. Das normale ist besser. 10/8/7/8/11/8
Keg at Brewdog, alongside the normal Hopwired. Less hazy, similar orange amber colour, still, small foamy white head endures longer than on the normal version. Aroma is musty caramel sweetness with some banana and peach. Body is medium, some spritzy carbonation. Taste is lighter than the normal version, toned down caramel sweetness, soft strawberry, finishes with crisp citrus.
Draught keg at Brewdog Camden. Aromas of over-ripe fruit salad - nectarine, melon and strawberry - similar in flavour, with a lingering but not sticky/sweet finish. Was expecting a wet-hop beer to be more grassy but this was just jam-packed with fruity flavours.
Draught at BrewDog Clapham Junction’s opening night; 13 August. Poured a hazy amber colour, with a dense white head. Aroma of fresh hops, just cut grass and caramel. Juicy fruit flavours, with some pine needle bitterness and straw. Finish was resin, zesty citrus and dry grain.
500 ml bottle. Pours a copper amber colour with a small head. Aroma of bread, fresh herbs, some grainy notes and grass. Flavour of herbal bitterness, grass, orange pith, strong gooseberry notes and biscuit. Medium bodied. Dry and bitter finish. Good.