Dave Stallard > wrote in
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> 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.

To me it wasn't the hops (I've enjoyed much hoppier beers), just that
Hop Wallop didn't have an adequate malt profile to back it up. Beers
like Ruination, Hop Rod Rye, or Dreadnaught all seemed hoppier than Hop
Wallop, but they had a malt backbone. --
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