Samuel Adams Hopscape
Wheat ale brewed with West Coast hops
3.2
214 reviews
Boston, United States
Community reviews
Poured from 12oz brown bottle into a pint glass, mostly-clear light golden colour with white foam. Basic APA flavour and aroma, predictable grapefruity, resiny hops, plus a little extra wheat bread mouthfeel. Light body, moderate carbonation, crisp finish. Unmemorable, but tasty, an easy-drinker.
Golden, minor haze and a dense white head. Aroma is quite wheaty and not as the name would suggest with a lot of hop characteristics. Bready-wheat flavors with minimal hops (again curious). This is personally what I want in an American style wheat beer - keep the hops out or way in the background. Love this one!
12 oz. bottle served in a shaker- poured a transparent yellow color, wafer thin atop the liquid surface and a bold ring about the vessel. Aroma of various hops and wheat bread. Hits the mouth with a light body, malt is there but not very firm, hops come in the middle, finish is very lightly acidic. It’s ok.
Pours a cloudy almost golden color. Lots of white pillowy head. Great retention, great lacing.
Aroma is wheat bread, some sort of berry, earthy, citrusy hops. However, there’s also some cat urine.
Taste is lightly bitter. I’d say there’s just some lemongrass. Bready. Light berry, light citrus.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied. Oily. Pretty drinkable, lightly dry.
Overall, it’s okay. Would be much better if not for the cat urine smell, that sort of hurts it all around. I wouldn’t buy it again, and I wouldn’t recommend it.
12 oz bottle pours a light hazy golden color with a small white head. Aromas of light citrus, wheat. Light bodied, easy drinking.
A Bostonian’s view of a California wheat beer. Kind of bland, smooth but rather flavorless.
Bottle pours a hazy light gold with a one finger white head and light lacing. Aroma is citrus dominant. Taste is light, crisp, citrus heavy, minimal malt. Bitterness is mild and the aftertaste is citrus abundant with a bit of hard water.
Hazy pale amber pour with a two finger, creamy white head. Aroma is sweet wheat, lemon, lots of citrusy hops, planty and wildflower hops, a bit of berry. Flavor is citrus, oily grain, thistle, caramel, straw. Medium body, medium carbonation, slightly oily, slightly syrupy, but off dry feel. Ok, kinda odd and oily feeling.
Aroma is citrus/fruity hops and tropical fruit. The flavor is wheat/grains, tropical fruit, citrus/fruit, mild hop resin and a bitter/spicy/dryish finish.
Super hazy golden and peach coloured body with a nice, two to three centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of grass and a mellow funky and very herbal quality with some sweetness as well. Light-bodied; Strong grassy and wheatie flavour with some sweetness noticeable from honey and some fruits and a dose of big hops and bitterness near the end. Aftertaste shows some robustness from the wheat and the hops and has a good sweet flavour and a smooth, but fruity finish. Overall, a nice and rich beer with a lot of flavour and a funky yet herbal flavour that shows relatively well. Good, not great and a nice ’new’ example of a wheat ale. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Trader Joe’s in Washington (West End), D.C. on 11-March-2017 for US$1,59 sampled in my hotel room in Columbia, Maryland on 18-April-2017.
Pours a golden apple juice color with 1 inch smooth white head. Leaves behind a scant amount of lacing. Smells of tropical fruit, citrus and a touch of dankness. Tastes hoppy with that chewy Californicated resin character with a good dough like backbone. Medium bodied and creamy with a long dry finish. Pretty damn good.
Draught at some shitty bar in Malden, 2/21/17.
When in Rome....A strange, rather hazy, almost cloudy, pale-bronze body is topped by a sizable white head showing moderate retention.
The nose is very reserved with light pepper, wintergreen, dry nectarine and hints of peach and grapefruit. Malts show just a touch of honey and bread. It’s a bit difficult to tell since at bars that have this on draught, they serve it in a frosted fucking mug. Anyways, the aroma neither deteriorates nor improves much with warming.
In the mouth it’s again very mild, reserved and low on flavor, though not unpleasant at all. Lots of wheat softness, some bread, light caramel and honey and finally light tangerine, wintergreen and just a touch of pineapple. Soft texture, very carbonated, low bitterness and maltiness, no alcohol or flaw.
Bottle served in a glass,
this ale was a hazy light medium orange-yellow and the pour gave a nice cover of white bubbles that was lasting, there was a small bit of haze in this drink,
there were aromas of wheat and light malt, the hops were grapefruit and lemon, grass and herb with a bit of pine, grapefruit and lemon citrus fruit and there was some fruit sweetness,
the flavors were citrus and spice hops, wheat, grapefruit and lemon, hints of unripe fruit, a little fruit sweetness,
there was a light hop bitterness at the finish with a citrus bite, citrus fruit and wheat afterwards,
the mouth feel was light, it was creamy and there was average to lively carbonation,
this beer had citrus hops with light malt and wheat, and it had light sweetness,
a light and thirst quenching drink.
Bottle. Slightly hazy bright polished brass color. There is a long lasting white head. Nose of rich grapefruit and light almonds. Flavors of light orange juice play along with some fresh bread. Notes of flowers are also present. Decent and drinkable for a light summery type brew. Very soft carbonation helps to make this one drinkable.
From tap. Pours hazy orange, greyish, with a small white head. Teaish and slight citrusy hoppy. Mild herbal. Dry and slight herbal finish.
Pours clear golden color with white head. Grassy malt aroma with some tropical fruit. Flavor is light wheat with citrus and some mango. Citrus finish. Light body with some nice tropical fruit flavors.
Bottle. Dull gold. Aroma of citrus, pine, with some wheat. A bit grainy in the flavor that actually overpowers the hops at times. Earthy.
A delicious wheat beer. Aroma was good. Perfumey with wheat, lemongrass and light grains. Pour was a nice hazy light gold with a one finger white head. Taste was nice and hoppy. Just as the commercial description says, this is a nice wheat beer with a heavy, but balanced earthy and grassy hop finish. Very light and crisp. Medium carbonation. Nice thirst quencher
On draft at Thirsty Bernies in Arlington VA. Pours a cloudy gold with an off white head. Flavors of orange and toast. Moderately bitter finsih.
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I am always the one to try new beers. There are many microbrews I like but they are restricted to just local distribution. The Hopscape is now my number one beer. This now saves me from driving from Detroit to Milwaukee to purchase a beer that tastes nearly as good as this. I love this beer and it now replaces your lager as my regular beer. I hope this is not going to be a seasonal beer because I want to drink this all the time.
Drank rught from the bottle, like any dirty IPA wheat ale should. Good sizzle. Hoppy dull punch. Dregs beak loose and liquid gets more cloudy. Yes, on style, many typically rude wheat ale effects in this. Difficult to take for a wheaty.
12/28/16. Had a 12oz single for this rate, but have had a few later as my wife’s family picked up a sixer or two while in town. Golden orange pour with a small khaki head. Okay aroma, light citrus, soft wheat. Decent flavor, goes down easy and smooth, clean soft wheat, a hint of citrus. Would be good enough on a hot day. Not awful. Tastes like Sam Adams. Not the person, but like how their beers always taste. If that makes sense. Again, not a corpse or anything. Just... nevermind. Nobody reads these anyway.
The appearance of this draft beer is a small white head with a short retention, hazy pale yellow body, no carbonation observed, and excellent lacing adorns the glass. The aroma is some citrus hops and wheat. The flavor is very lightly bitter, some citrus hops and wheat. The mouthfeel is smooth with some light carbonation. This beer is light-medium bodied. This is a so-so easy drinking beer with a light bitter finish.
12 ounce bottle. Pours a somewhat hazy golden orange with a decent off-white head. Aroma of citrus and malt. Taste is lemon, malt, grain, and some grass. Decent.
12 oz bottle pours amber with a white head. Aroma of malts and citrus. Taste is nice citrus hops and caramel
12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear yellow color with an average white cap of foam. Aroma is a nice combination of cereal malt and citrus hops although a little skunky. Medium body, the flavor is sweet and bready from the malt and there’s a slight bite from the hops. The finish is fairly clean and a little sweet. Pretty good!
Wheeltapper, New York tap: pours hazy yellowish with a white head. Aroma is lightly citrusy. Taste is fruity. Body is kind of creamy. Light aftertaste.
From a 12 oz bottle into a North Coast chalice. Pours white gold with head and lace. Aroma of grains, pale malt, slight cat box. Significant carbonation and moderate mouthfeel. Flavors of pale malt, grassy hops, grains, minerals, straw hops. Overall flavorful and refreshing without a big hop or malt body.
Pours a hazy golden yellow color with a two finger off white head that left some good lacing around the glass. The aroma is rather mellow but you pick up some faint hops, pine, and bread. The flavor is similar to the aroma. I pick up the mellow hops, pine, and white bread. The mouthfeel is light and drinkability is high. It tastes more like a watered down ipa than a wheat beer.