Hop JuJu Imperial IPA - Fat Heads Brewery & Saloon

rodlavers

Pennsylvania

4.1/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Served at on tap at 3R6P in Delmont, PA,

Served in a 10oz. chalice. Looks just a shade darker than Head Hunter, more burnt orange/golden. Thin white head with nice retention. Smell is flowery and sweet with a great citrus blast. Taste is similar, with a really dry and pulpy finish. Can feel and taste extra abc. Smooth. Overall JuJu is very good, but I like HH better. Would like to try in a bottle, if available. Cheers.

Serving type: on-tap

10-10-2012 00:22:31 | More by rodlavers

Knapp85

Pennsylvania

4.33/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Very nice looking copper color on this beer. The head is thin and white leaving behind just a touch of lacing on the glass with a small amount of retention. The smell if loaded with a bunch of hop aromas that range from resin to pine to fruit. The taste of the beer is very good too, nicely balanced sweet malts with a punishing bitter finish. The mouthfeel is oily and kind of heavy too. Overall this beer is a tasty, it's a hop bomb for sure, but if you're a hophead you'll love this for sure.

Serving type: on-tap

09-27-2012 23:41:16 | More by Knapp85

laintringulis

Ohio

4.2/5  rDev -4.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Served in a chilled beer glass

A: Clear pale amber yellow with a large 2 inch beige head. Head dies down quickly with minimal lacing

S: Fruity sweetness, unable to tell specifically what type. Just smells juicy. General citrus, pine, and grass notes.

T: Pleasant pineapple and nectarine flavors with a well balanced piney/grassy hop profile. Keeps up wanting more. Alcohol is not noticeable due to the incredible flavors.

M: Slightly oily up front with a pleasant bitterness from the hops. Nice dryness on the finish. Medium body.

O: I would definitely like more of this beer. It is quite easy to drink and is complex even that you don't get bored.

Serving type: on-tap

11-24-2011 07:00:39 | More by laintringulis

Dan3279

Ohio

4.1/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

(review based on notes taken at the saloon)

Served on cask at the Fathead's Saloon in Cleveland.
Served in 8oz pint glass with a hazy dark orange body with a two and a half inch with a ton of sticky lacing.

Great smelling beer that is dominated by the grapefruit hops, instantly reminds me of a west coast IPA. The taste is great, hop citrus everywhere with a bit of pine and a great amount of bitterness.

This is a full bodied beer with a good amount of carbonation, the beer is really sticky and completely coats your mouth. Overall a solid Imperial IPA and I will defiantly pick up another glass during my next visit to Fat Head's.

Serving type: cask

09-03-2011 01:42:28 | More by Dan3279

cosmo4u

New York

4.35/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

served on tap in pittsburgh fatheads

Huge blast of hops cone aromas... pine, pineapple, mango, grapefruit. Heavenly. Body is a fairly light golden orange with a little bit of a head and many streams of tiny bubbles rising to the surface. Flavor is darn near perfect for anything aspiring to be my kind of IPA.... lots of hops, enough malt to balance and thicken things up a bit and a very bitter finish with some resin.

Serving type: on-tap

08-18-2011 05:27:00 | More by cosmo4u

MasterSki

Illinois

4.18/5  rDev -4.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

On-tap at Three Floyds. I really dug Headhunter, so I was excited to try this one. Served in a half-pint.

A - A finger of white foam that has fantastic retention and leaves behind splotchy lace. Golden transparent body.

S - Big hop aroma, with plenty of pithy grapefruit, light pine, other citrus zest and juice, and a light sugar cookie and bread malt backdrop.

T - Taste is a little less exciting, although it's still fairly enjoyable. Less sweetness and more bitterness, particularly in the finish. As it warms up some icing sugar malt character comes, but this is largely grapefruits and a hint of orange.

M - Medium body, moderate carbonation, some light alcohol warmth, and a super dry finish. Plenty if resinous hop oils are left behind.

D - A very good Midwest DIPA that I would gladly have again if I saw it on-tap (or had a growler). There's a nice group of hoppy brews popping up in Ohio (Fat Heads, Columbus, etc.) which is a nice change of pace from the less hop-oriented offerings from Jackie O's and Great Lakes. This isn't a beer that you could drink all night, but I had no problem finishing my glass.

Serving type: on-tap

06-28-2011 21:27:37 | More by MasterSki

AgentZero

Illinois

3.8/5  rDev -13.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

A - Golden orange and transparent. Poured with two fingers of white head that had ridiculous retention.

S - Lots of tropical fruits and a little bit of caramel malt. Smells very light, sweet, and fruity, quite refreshing.

T - Taste is a lot heavier than the nose. I found this beer you be quite sweet and sugary. Its got some pretty strong bitterness on the backend. It's good, but too sugary for me.

M - Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

O - Good, I think others have liked it more than I did as it was kind of sweet, but it is a good beer worth drinking. Bonus if you like fruity IPAs.

Serving type: on-tap

06-24-2011 02:26:01 | More by AgentZero

sholland119

Pennsylvania

4.1/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Picked up a growler at the Pittsburgh location.

A-Pour is a clear, pale honeyed amber with a thin ring of white head, no appreciable lacing.

S-Citrus and lots of it. Mostly grapefruit and grapefruit rind, orange and a bit of pine.

T-A bit boozy but mostly delicious. Good light caramel malt, then lots of citrus bitterness nicely balanced by a honeyed sweetness and some boozy warmth. Quite tasty.

M-Medium bodied, maybe a bit to the heavy side with ice carbonation.

O-I am a big fan of this one. A delicious DIPA. Glad to have been able to grab it.

HV

Serving type: growler

06-14-2011 00:54:14 | More by sholland119

nrbw23

Ohio

4.38/5  rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

A- Pours a bright amberish orange color with just a tiny bit of haze to it. Head is a white foam that becomes a layer of bubbles on top of the brew. Head leaves some really nice layered lacing.

S- Picking a up a ton of citrus, a bit of orange, lemon and ton of grapefruit. A bit of pine and the slightest touch of malt sweetness.

T- Taste is great. Hop citrus everywhere! A bit of pine and a great amount of bitterness.

M- Full in body and carbonation is good. The feel to this beer was great super sticky and almost syrup like.

O- This is a great beer. Seek this one out if you get a chance to make it up there.

Serving type: on-tap

05-24-2011 20:35:19 | More by nrbw23

IronCitySteve

Pennsylvania

4.38/5  rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

On tap at Fat Heads.

A: Pours a slightly hazy dark orangish brown color. Provides a small off white foam head with a slight amount of lacing down the side.

S: Ample amounts of citrus and pine hops are most evident on the nose. Small amounts of caramel, bread and biscuit as well.

T: Starts off with ample amounts of pine hop bitterness. The middle and back end produce a nice undertone of caramel and bread malt taste balancing the beer a tad but the pine/citrus are most predominant.

M: Leaves a nice bitter taste on the palate. These beer is medium bodied.

O: Another nice DIPA from Fat Heads. Lots of big hop flavor with a slight undertone of malts. Extremely tasty.

Serving type: on-tap

05-07-2011 13:56:17 | More by IronCitySteve

Stinkypuss

Pennsylvania

4.15/5  rDev -5.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Fatheads Hop Juju

Poured into a 12 oz snifter. Bright shiney new copper colored beer, almost neon. Sweet dank nose. Pine, lime citrus and alittle malt sweetness. Some tropical fruit (pineapple,mango) notes go well with a moderate level of bitterness. Good carbonation, light to medium bodied feel. Another awesome Fatheads IPA.

Serving type: on-tap

04-29-2011 02:49:43 | More by Stinkypuss

OWSLEY069

Pennsylvania

3.68/5  rDev -16.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours a clean orange-ish color with an off white head. In the aroma, mango and peach citrus. In the taste, pine like hops and dehydrated peaches. A small bite and medium bodied mouthfeel, with a dry pine like hop in the aftertaste. Kind of summery with the nice fruitiness in the nose, but pine hops in the taste.

Serving type: on-tap

09-23-2010 15:27:10 | More by OWSLEY069

beerhan

Ohio

4.1/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

An interesting double IPA with a very malty edge and bitter finish. Smells of floral hops, much caramel and honey and autumn mornings. Taste is very caramelly and sweet. Honestly it smells a lot better than the taste. JuJu goes down smooth but comes back for a bitter bite that allows you to really feel the alcohol. Two pints though and I felt like I had a full meal. Overall I would say it was quite good but a bit too rich and bitter.

Serving type: growler

09-08-2010 15:14:21 | More by beerhan

jampics2

Ohio

4.4/5  rDev +0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Imperial snifter served at the brewpub the day after it was put on tap. Super fresh batch. Looks nice, oranger than headhunter. Some nice head that sticks to the sides. Overall, it's a nice looking beer, very west-coast inspired.

Huge tangerine and pine smells in the nose. In talking to the brewer, he mentioned CTZ hops and simcoe. You can def. pick out the spiciness of the CTZ and the slight cattiness of the simcoe. Pineapple, orange, and grapefruit. Intense and expressive. Just a touch too spicy for me.

The taste is intense and hoppy as hell. The pine and citrus flavors are lush and intense. Very bitter with just a touch of pale sweet malt underneath. This beer isn't messing around.

Medium body with nice carbonation. Overall, I liked this beer but it is ruinous and very, very brash. Not a lover, certainly a fighter. This beer will knock out your tastebuds, but it's worth getting in the ring.

Serving type: on-tap

09-01-2010 21:37:37 | More by jampics2

TurdFurgison

Ohio

4.47/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Had on tap at the Cleveland location. The menu notes: Double IPA brewed with incredible amounts of hops giving this beer supernatural hops aroma, flavor, and bitterness.

The beer is kind of dark copper color, mostly clear with a little haze, and a wet looking white foam. Lots of lacing on the glass as the glass emptied. The aroma was all citrus hops, grapefruit and lemon, really mouthwatering. This is exactly the approach I like to see with a DIPA, some go too far with malt balance but not Hop JuJu. The taste was no disappointment either, The hops citrus flavors come through in a big way, and here the malts showed up a little more than in the aroma. The initial tastes are sweet but with a strong bitter edge in the aftertaste.

Full bodied and filling, a strong mouthfeel to complement the strong flavors. This is another great IPA from Fat Heads, a brewery that makes nothing but good beers. This microbrewery should consider bottling.

Serving type: on-tap

03-25-2010 10:53:37 | More by TurdFurgison

jzeilinger

Pennsylvania

4.33/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Got this at Fatheads in Pittsburgh on tap, the only place you can get this stuff. Pours a deep amber orange, no carbonation, thin light lacing around the top of the glass.

Smell is Tart grapefruit, orange, light malt sweetness, and some pepper. Smells a little acidic in the hop department, almost dank in nature.

Taste is surprisingly much BETTER than expected. Has a HUGE grapefruit presence, slight malt sweetness on the palette, a little peppery, orange citrus, but the grapefruit bitterness definately dominates. Has a mild sweetness up front before the bitterness immediately takes over and slams the malts into submission. The malts do linger underneath to keep things in check, but definately plays a back seat to the bitterness. As a side note, I definitely dig the flavor of this private label D-IPA.

Mouthfeel is smooth, finishes dry, medium to full body, and leaves a metallic orange citrus coating in the mouth with a modest warming in the throat from the ABV.

Drinkability runs very, very high. Fatheads hit a home run with this recipe. Hey, can you bottle this stuff? This is an absolutely fabulous beer. I bought a growler to take home and if I had easier access to this, I'd keep it in my fdridge as long as they had it on tap. Very well done and a definite surprise. Nice job.

Serving type: on-tap

03-11-2010 06:22:47 | More by jzeilinger

cpetrone84

Pennsylvania

4.43/5  rDev +0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Had on draft last night at Fat Heads in Pittsburgh. Joe is the best bartender there and we also mixed this with Head hunter to create quite an awesome IPA.

A-copper color with a thin white head that lingers for a moment and leaves a light lacing.

S-big nose of tropical fruits and floral aromas. Grapefruit, apricot and some citrus make up the fruits with a light hint of pine to back up all the sweetness.

T-follows the nose and is quite big! the grapefruit and apricot dominate with a touch of citrus bringing up the font of the flavor. a resigny pine comes in next with lots of bitterness coming in at the finish.

M-medium body with a fair amount of carbonation. it is syrupy but extremely smooth and it coats the mouth as it goes down.

D-extremely easy drinking hiding the alcohol very well. solid DIPA and will have to go back to grab a growler.

Serving type: on-tap

02-10-2010 00:42:16 | More by cpetrone84

Beerandraiderfan

Nevada

4.43/5  rDev +0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Well another phenomenal Fat Head effort at the Double IPA festival.

Looks like a Pliny clone, its light in appearance. That is the only thing it is "light" in. Massive grapefruit hop aromas. The best. Taste is more of the same, but without any heavy malt bill, or feeling of unbalanced bitterness. Bitterness subsides before its even there. Delicious.

Mouthfeel, relatively straightforward, there is no evolution here, which is good, because its phenomenal from the first waft. Could drink this all day.

Serving type: on-tap

02-08-2010 17:06:47 | More by Beerandraiderfan

adamette

Ohio

3.75/5  rDev -14.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Review from notes taken earlier tonight at the brewery. Poured into a clean, clear pint glass. Notes from brewery: Double IPA brewed with incredible amounts of hops giving this beer supernatural hop aroma, flavor and bitterness. It's witchcraft on tap like a temporary hop tattoo on your tongue.

A Translucent orange brown body with little head and not much lacing either. 3.0

S Floral hops but nicely balanced with nice malt sweetness. 3.5

T Hops are the center but really they are not unbalanced. This beer luckily has a nice malt balance to it. 4.0

M Moderate with some hop bitterness but a very welcome smoothness too that really helped me enjoy this beer. 4.0

D Fair to good. 3.5

Notes: I really enjoyed this beer that I was not sure that I would. I do not enjoy hoppy beers as much as most.

Serving type: on-tap

09-26-2009 20:08:58 | More by adamette

AltBock

Ohio

4.13/5  rDev -5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

I was able to try Fat Heads take on a Double/Imperial IPA there on 9/25/2009. The beer menu stated that it had an ABV of 8.7% and 100 IBUs. Fat Heads served it to me in a 12 oz. Snifter.

This Double/Imperial IPA poured a semi clear dark golden amber with a few minor sunshine yellow highlights along the sides. Sitting on top of this beer was a creamy head of white foam. It wasn't an off white color, it was a solid cotton white color. This pure white head of foam had good retention that left behind a string of white rings and some big ass streaks of lace all around the glass.

The aroma was citrus all the way! It was one of those Double/Imperial IPAs that you can smell from a long distance. The aroma was strong with bitter citrus hops, bitter grapefruit, a hint of pine, a splash of lemon, and any other citrus fruit you can think of. Was there any malts to help balance out all the citrus aromas? Hell No there wasn't! This was the scent of a great Double/Imperial. Let's see if the taste matches the strong bitter citrus aroma.

The taste was extremely bitter with citrus fruits, bitter citrus hops, plenty of bitter grapefruit, a splash of lemon, and a touch of pine. Sometimes this taste got so bitter than I turned my head, but not in disgust. It was more of a reflex because the beer was too bitter. If you plan on drinking this beer, I sure hope you really like bitter beers because the malts will not come in at all to help balance out the beer. In other words, this was one great super bitter beer.

This was clearly a full bodied Double/Imperial IPA with the correct amount of carbonation and a full flavored bitter aftertaste. This strong bitter aftertaste was chock full of citrus hops, citrus fruits, pine, and grapefruit. This was the malts last chance to show up, but I'm thinking that all the citrus flavors combined all their citrus powers to completely kick out the malts. This aftertaste had nowhere to go anytime soon, so it stuck around in the back of my throat for quite a few minutes.

I know that Fat Heads makes some really good beers, but they raised the bar with this one. There was absolutely no shortage of citrus hops or fruits. The only thing missing from the taste was the malts and I couldn't care less about that. A 12 oz. glass is good enough for a beer this big. A growler might be a little too excessive. If you're a hop head (if you're on BA you probably are) and you see this on the beer board or menu, get it!

Serving type: on-tap

09-26-2009 06:28:07 | More by AltBock