NoDa Hop, Drop 'n Roll IPA
Our west coast style IPA hits you with a ton of juicy hop flavor that shines out from a substantial and complex malt backbone. We use Citra, Amarillo, Centennial, Warrior and Chinook in 10 separate additions to provide the intense hop blast found within this can!
3.8
266 reviews
Charlotte, United States
Community reviews
16oz can - pours a medium gold . Mild citrus and pine aroma . Medium to high bitterness, citrus rind .
I nice sharp start that tells you your drinking an Indian Pale Ale. Fresh and hoppy makes for a drinkable beer.
Crisp copper coloured body with a nice two to three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of bright tropical fruits and resinous, dank hops along with some mild sugars, a pleasant malt backbone and some subdued herbal and grassy notes near the end. Medium-bodied; Assertive tropical fruits and resinous hops with a nice bitter bite near the beginning, showing some mild sugars, a light bit of grass and herbal flavours and finishing with a smooth and balanced malt backbone. Aftertaste shows more of the hop characteristics with a lot of passionfruit, guava and bitter resin flavours, but also some light sweetness and a dry grassy finish which balances this out quite well. Overall, a very well-balanced IPA that shows a hop-centric character with the tropical fruits and resinous qualities the strongest, but the balance is just right and the bitterness keeps going to the very end. Definitely worth trying to find if you like IPAs and live anywhere close to the south! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from GrapeVine in Fort Mill, South Carolina on 21-August-2017 after watching the eclipse in South Carolina for US$3,40 sampled at home in Washington on 05-October-2017. This can was made on 14-July-2017 with the hashtag #ShowYourCans.
Canned: 14-July-2017 // Purchased: 21-August-2017 // Sampled: 05-October-2017
Draft at the source. Hazy golden orange with a sticky white head. Grapefruit, citrus rind, orange, pine trees, resin. Lots of bright hops with caramel malt. Medium bodied. Nice. Utter finish. Loaded with hops without being overly astringent. Excellent IPA. (notes, 2015)
Wow! Really impressed with the flavor and boldness of this beer. Very happy but not unbearable. A+
Rating #2497 - 2016.05.04 - 2.5oz sample at BrewExpo during CBC. 7.2% - Clear, golden pour with a bubbly, lasting white foam. Aroma is citrusy, tangerine notes, mild grassiness, mild floral, piney scent.Taste is a blast of sweet citrus, pine, grass whose bitterness evolves to define this beer, a bold bitter IPA.
Delicious in every way. Very crisp and rather light going down but very nice and hoppy. Would def drink again
Smell is light...pretty much nothing...Taste is smooth and light...peppery more than anything...low complexity...at kraken before SCAEP meeting
Pours golden yellow with a think head. Medium mixed hop taste that changes from soft to intense finish that lingers.
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On tap at the Charlotte, NC Airport. Thankful for a long layover! Hazy pale yellow heady pour. Lacing. I get citrus and pine hop notes with a more muted toasted white bread aroma. The mouthfeel is smooth, astringent, and medium. Bitterness is more profound and the same citrus and pine notes jump in. Lingers at the end.
Can (Feb 24, 2017 canning).
Head is initially average sized to large, frothy, white, mostly lasting.
Body is dark yellow.
Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), moderately to heavily hoppy (grapefruit, resin, grass), lightly yeasty (dough).
Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter.
Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, heavily bitter.
Medium body, watery/velvety texture, lively carbonation, lightly to moderately alcoholic.
Land o’ goshen, this is a hop bomb and then some. Both in the aroma and in the blistering bitterness. I wouldn’t say it’s out of place for a West Coast styled IPA, but phew...too overboard for me, and too one-dimensional too. And not the sort of hop aromas that make me giddy. Even Stone doesn’t make stuff this aggressive anymore, even though their marketing still pretends they do. It’s clean, though, just a bit of raw vitamin B...and there is a certain sense of fun to something this balls-out.
Tap at a bar in the Charlotte NC airport
Pours deep orange hue with a very nice soapy white head and great thick lacing. Whispy and lots of "ghosts" Nose is piney, grapefruit lots of toasted malt base. very nice somewhat old school with a hint of modern IPA notes (floral). Flavors are all mostly traditional yet clean IPA flavors-lots of grapefruit, pine, lite floral notes with a very nice toasted pale grain base-very cracker like malt profile that makes for a very nice dry finish. This is a world class IPA here. I would love to get more of this stuff! I had to drink this sample pretty quickly so i could catch my flight. great brew!
On tap at A Taste of Carolina at CLT. Clear medium amber with a two finger off white head that fades slowly and leaves some patchy lace. Nose has lots of pine and citrus. Light sweet malt with a medium+ bitterness. Mouth is medium slick with average carbonation. Decent.
8/3+/7+/4-/15
Sampled at Uptown Bar in Chalrotte airport. Pine tree hop, prickly bitterness, citrus rind, caramel and spicy floralness. Harsh and biting loving this stuff.
Had at a Nascar themed airport restaurant in charlotte, so this was a really pleasant surprise. Nice gold pour, big white head. Fresh bitter aroma and flavor, of grass, lemon, grapefruit, and camel malt. Great stuff.
On tap. Good solid IPA . Nice fruit character with some slight dank. Clear look. Off white head. Golden in color.
Tallboy can from Craft and Draft in Columbia; first from this brewery for me. Pours a clear gold color with a nice, foamy white head and lacing. Aroma is sweet, fresh, green hops with a little spice plus caramel malt. Nice flavor with some dank earthiness and almost a melon trait too. Pretty interesting and tasty.
16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 7/18/2016. Pours slightly hazy orange/amber color with a 2 finger dense and fluffy off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, apricot, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, pine, light caramel/nuttiness, toasted biscuit, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of juicy citrus/tropical/pine hops and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, apricot, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, pine, light caramel/nuttiness, toasted biscuit, and floral/grassy earthiness. Good amount of pine/citrus rind bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, apricot, mango, lemon/orange rind, toasted biscuit, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of juicy citrus/tropical/pine hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and minimal lingering hop astringency after the finish. Moderate dryness from bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, sticky/resinous, and fairly creamy/bready balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.2%. Overall this is an excellent IPA. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of juicy citrus/tropical/pine hops and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink, despite the aggressive bitterness. A very enjoyable offering.
16oz can from Bruisin Ales in Asheville. Sweetly hoppy. Light malts. Pine. Very well blended and tasty. Nice! 13.8
16 oz can poured into an IPA glass. Hazy light orange color with a medium off-white head that mostly dissipates. Aroma of citrus, pine, bread. Taste is pretty well balanced with tropical fruit and hop bitterness working in tandem with biscuity malt. A bit thinner in body than I was expecting. Finish is bitter and lingers. A very tasty IPA and one of the better ones I’ve tried from NC.
Can. Pours a cloudy orange with medium frothy off white head that lasts. The aroma is floral and hay, Medium mouth, light fruity hop, earthy malt, light bitterness, very good.
Poured from can orange in color medium aromatics , malty w citrus notes piney west coast style beer
Can: poured orange with white head. Aroma was tangerine earthy floral musk. Taste was orange floral pine
Tasted from a can. Pours a hazy amber with a nice thick white head. Tons of lacing. Aroma is citrus, mostly grapefruit and some orange. Taste is a nice moderate to heavy bitterness. Pine, citrus, caramel flavors. Very tasty and well done.
Can. I kinda quit rating, being in the industry has changed my perspective. However, this is an excellent example of an American (West Coast) IPA. Piney, citrus, grassy, everything you want. I wish I could find these guys in Cincy.
Draft at CLT airport. Golden orange and moderately frothy. Nice tart aroma followed by a downright citric-acidic amusement park ride for your tongue. Quite nice. (#6190, 5/14/2016)
Stumbled on during a layover in Charlotte. Can poured to shaker. Honey gold in the glass. Fluffy white head held up. Nose is all about the hop resin. Big sock in the tongue of an IPA. Grapefruit, pine, really well balanced and the hop board is ridiculously complex. Thanks for making my layover enjoyable.
High class hop bomb. Medium bodied with fluffy pillowy head. Big juicy hop upfront with explosive citrus and resin lingering from the dry hopping. Pretty bitter finish but extremely full flavored. Great fresh one!
Tap at Charlotte airport, NC. (rated while having a cold, such a shame for a beer this good but hey, I have a layover in NC and you don’t skip trying a beer like this under any circumstances). Pours slightly hazy straw, creamy white head, prominent lacing. Aroma is lots of lemon drop, big citrus, bit of tangerine, mild spot of grapefruit and dankness I notice if look for it. nice malt backbone. Flavor is lemon, citrus, grapefruity, ooh, floral and lots of pine, solid hop bite, but also a decent malt backbone. Good mouthfeel, kinda soft, a bit dry. It reminds me of two hearted. It’s a well-balanced citrusy ipa. It’s not a big tropical fruit punch or a West coast ipa, but it is damn balanced.
Stopped by 1897 Market in Charlotte airport. I love solid IPA’s (hate watered down IPA want to be’s like Goose Island, etc. this IPA was a rich golden, with the right amount of bite and hops. Extremely drinkable beer. Love it.