{"id":632,"date":"2008-12-23T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=632"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:14:02","slug":"twisted-hop-ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/12\/23\/twisted-hop-ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Hop IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twisted Hop IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reward-to-self for knocking my Christmas shopping off in one go (and with a whole day to spare). It’s awesome. A big apricotty, hop-filled nose to start off, and a similarly big, nicely bitter and full-on taste, faultlessly done. It also very much suits being on the hand-pulls, being flatter and that little bit warmer. It delivers in areas where things like Pink Elephant Golden Tusk<\/a> and Epic Pale Ale prove to be only all talk, much to my recent annoyance. This makes for seriously-good medicine and reassurance, after those.<\/p>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Twisted Hop IPA. 23\/12\/08 $8 @ Malty 6.4%. Shopping done. And this is on handpull. Awesome. Apricotty hop-filled nose, and big, nicely bitter feel. What Golden Tusk should’ve been. Goes very nicely flat + slightly warmer. Big full-on taste, but faultlessly done. Nice and rounded, unlike an Epic or summat.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> I should admit that two days later, on Christmas Day, I also had an astonishing<\/em> hangover brought on by overindulgence in this stuff. I don’t mean to blame it, or anything \/ anyone other than myself, I’m just saying that it was that delicious<\/em>; you kept going when you knew you shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

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\"Twisted<\/a>
Diary entry 67.1, Twisted Hop IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Diary entry #67.2, Twisted Hop IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reward-to-self for knocking my Christmas shopping off in one go (and with a whole day to spare). It’s awesome. A big apricotty, hop-filled nose to start off, and a similarly big, nicely bitter and full-on taste, faultlessly done. It also very much suits being on the hand-pulls, being flatter and that little bit warmer. … Continue reading Twisted Hop IPA<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,14,12],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-nz","tag-pale-ale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":816,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/09\/23\/twisted-hop-ipa-with-mandarins\/","url_meta":{"origin":632,"position":0},"title":"Twisted Hop IPA (with mandarins)","author":"Phil","date":"September 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"People do get confused when they spot our Hopinator gizmo, they really do. 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