Denny Conn wrote:
> Victory's Hop Wallop finally showed up here and after hearing all the
> kudos it's gotten, I was eager to try some. Great beer, great balance
> of malt/hops, nicely bittered..but where's the wallop? I don't _think_
> it's just a case of PNW hop burnout. I expected to be assaulted by hops
> and I had to really work to find much more than a nicely balanced
> bitterness in the beer. Followed that up with a Terminal Gravity IPA.
> Now, THERE'S a hop wallop, but still with a strong malt backbone to it!
> Anybody else been a little disappointed in Hop Wallop? Agaian, I'm not
> saying it's in any manner a bad beer, but I wanna get walloped!
Jeez, I tried it and found it basically undrinkably hoppy. It was
painful. I don't think I finished the pint.
I much prefer the Hop Devil.
Dave
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