Manhattan Project Brewing Company – Hoppenheimer

I wish I could report a greater success here, since this beer is from our Scots-Irish neighbors to the North in Dallas, but this beer takes an IPA and moves it closer to an American adjunct beer. Heavy overtones of citrus, squash, and boiled grain afflict what is otherwise a solid IPA.

The first clue here is the orange color. A good IPA should be yellow with overtones; this is orange like a Coors or Modelo product. It has a similar boggy taste, although much reduced. The nice clear IPA flavor profile is gone.

The blurb tells you to expect citrus and pine overtones. These are here! — but so also is the rotting squash flavor of an adjunct beer. It is not terrible. But for what you pay for it? This beer falls short of its promise.

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44 thoughts on “Manhattan Project Brewing Company – Hoppenheimer

  1. Nukes don't exist says:

    I’m not the biggest history nerd, but given the name of this beer, Nolan’s Oppenheimer was one of the worst high budget movies I’ve seen. Condensed with every pseudo-science trope/modern Hollywood cliché under the sun and with an Irish protagonist playing a so called genius of the merchantile race to kink things up… heck it even featured 31|\|$731|\| to add insult to injury.

    Yeah this *must* be a bad beer, even if it’s good.

  2. gayass gayass says:

    IPA is soy juice for gay ass monkey Apple users, regular piss lager is 100x better. Also beer reviews are gay (iPhone Expert)

  3. Pisswasser says:

    Saying beer is manly is like soccer fans trying hard to hide the fact that it’s the gayest sport.

    But there’s an upside, as there’s 15-20% abv beers here where I live at only 2 something bucks per pint. That’ll get you fucked up cheaper than hard liqour.

    1. Video games aren't gay at all says:

      Saying that saying beer is manly is like soccer fans trying to hide that it’s the gayest sport, is even gayer than soccer.

    2. Surviving P Diddy says:

      All American sports are gay.

      NFL? Pussy version of Rugby.
      Baseball? Shit version of cricket.
      Basketball? Black version of Lacrosse.
      NASCAR? Redneck trash version of F1.

      1. Sports are effete because they are living through a fantasy. The same is true of all Leftist politics and those horrible reality TV shows that make humanity out to be even more subtarded than it is normally.

    3. True, but sometimes you just want to crush a few Carlsbergs with some buddies.

    4. Over and Over says:

      Get drunk every day a month in a row, no breaks, and then experience true manhood. Alcohol detox is one of the most miserable experiences, and don’t cheat with valium either. Go cold turkey, and experience insane anxiety and hallucination. Been there, I’ve seen the abyss like Raziel did when he was cast into it by Kain.

      1. idc says:

        lololol you experience anxiety? what a pussy

        1. Rectal Nectar says:

          Delirium Tremens is no joke, you can sometimes die from it.

          1. idc says:

            lmao people die? what pussies

  4. Elvis Hitler says:

    German-Americans, the largest ethnic contingent that fought for the Union in the Civil War.

    250,000 first-generation
    200,000 immigrants

    Fritz fucking CRUSHED the South.

    Generations later, the southern Scots-Irish are trying to brew beer??! LOL!

    1. Ethnic Western Europeans rule.

  5. vincent says:

    u should make more articles about death metal

  6. Sammi Curr says:

    Necrovore said they hope to have their album out next year:

    1. Dick Sandwich says:

      This is a fucking horrible idea, I am for them doing an official release of their demos but a new album is going to be worthless

  7. Anonymoose says:

    >IPA review

    Bleh! I hate IPAs. For me, I rank my beers as follows.

    God-tier: stouts / porters, Belgian / abbey ales, lambics, hefeweizen, bockbier

    Solid-tier: rauchbier, märzen / festbier, Pilsners, dunkel, schwarzbier, saison, pumpkin ales

    Okay: Kölsch, red ales, Scotch ales, Helles / Wit ales, sours, gose, fruit beers

    Meh: Pale lagers

    Shit-tier: IPAs, IPLs

    1. Cynical says:

      True IPAs are amazing; the problem with them is that it’s a style where shortcuts can be taken very easily, such as with hop extracts or reusing hops for multiple batches (the Dogfish Head process), meaning the quality of most examples on the market is very poor.

  8. Gen. Erik says:

    Brett Goldstein’s next review will be of his own jism. Mark my words.
    Spoiler alert for all you fags: it has a rotting squash flavor.
    0.5 horns

    1. Rectal Nectar says:

      For fucks sake, the toxic masculinity of this site is so self-contradictory. Don’t you know sodomy and perversion are what metal is all about? The endless revolt against Christianity requires you to deviate from the norm, otherwise you lost the battle and end up becoming the monster you’re fighting.

      And don’t give me any of your transcendental faux-crap, Bratt, simple facts are facts. Spread your butt or die.

      1. Siegfried Baum says:

        Rape Christ, or Christ will rape you. Do unto others before they do unto you.

        1. Mountains of... says:

          I think Bratt’s favorite artist is Michael Cretu, he kept churning those paradoxical transcendent riffs out in the ‘gud’ old dayz. “Nothing and everything makes sense”

        2. YESSSSS says:

          Could it finally be, that Bratt realizes he’s been overthinking. That Nightside eclipse and Filosofem, were just about warcraft grinding gear? Could it be, this fucktard realizes it wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be???

          Shut down this moronic site? or continue to go on? Either way, the joke’s on you!

          1. That Nightside eclipse and Filosofem, were just about warcraft grinding gear?

            No. My regard for the classics of metal grows over time, not lessens. My patience for the also-rans is less than ever before simply because they are parasite-pretenders trying to ride the coattails of greats, and the sooner they are historical compost the better.

          2. Prince says:

            Doesn’t matter what it’s about or what people think about it long as it’s lit u tryhard jerkoff

          3. and have a beer says:

            I went back to Filosofem earlier this week and it really has got better over time. Even stuff that I thought was just okay at first (like the third track) comes across now as excellent. Appreciate your reminder to get back to classic Emperor.

            1. Revenge of the Working Classes says:

              This prep school nonsense is not metal. Metal is raw individualism, denying the herd, doing whatever the hell you want, then crushing all who stand in your path! It’s about the guts and gonads, not your overtrained brains.

              1. and have a beer says:

                Alright, let’s pretend to be badasses and shit all over the classics while we’re at it.

                1. Revenge of the Working Classes says:

                  Classics? The classics are stuff like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Genesis, the Doors, and King Crimson. Even those pale compared to the greats of jazz or classical music. Metal is just the cheap booze you buy at the 7-11 before porking fat girls behind your church.

                  1. and have a beer says:

                    You talk about metal as if it’s all the same. You don’t think Slayer, Morbid Angel and Burzum will be regarded as high art in the future? If that’s the case then I don’t there’s much I can say to you except Beethoven wasn’t considered that special in his time and we know how that turned out.

                    1. Revenge of the Working Classes says:

                      Who listens to Beethoven? Rich people from a dying culture. No one normal listens to Beethoven. It’s for poseurs exclusively who need to show us they are rich and therefore, they listen to Beethoven. All music is the same, equal basically, and you choose the flavor that fits your lifestyle. There is no magic or mysticism to it, just a personal choice, and it’s relative and arbitrary like everything else. In 100 years, who will care about Burzum, Slayer, and Morbid Angel? Probably the same long haired drop outs who like it today. It will not take on any historical significance. Basically, it’s all rock ‘n roll to me, and rock ‘n roll is just another lifestyle product like an iPhone or Skoal.

                    2. and have a beer says:

                      Then the stuff you mentioned aren’t classics either.

                    3. Sex bomb says:

                      Metal isn’t supposed to be coherent jeeschriiisss

                    4. Yes it is otherwise it ends up in rock territory.

              2. Rocket scientist says:

                Even if that’s true, most of it still sucks

                1. Revenge of the Working Classes says:

                  Of course it sucks! This is rock music, not Beethoven! You listen to it while you’re partying, getting laid, or doing homework. It’s not particle physics. Some of it has a better beat or a cute little melody so you like listening to it, and then if you’re this parakeet-brain web site, you claim it’s deep so you feel better about being drunk and stoned whilst listening to stupid music in a stupid life over which you have no control.

                  1. Carl says:

                    Lol okay dude

                  2. 666 Hz + 420 Hz Anus Healing Frequency | Apocalyptic Transmutation | Transcend Language says:

                    You’re overthinking it

                  3. wrinkled pig dick says:

                    Dude is so cool, he clearly owns sunglasses!

    2. Nate says:

      What in the fuck are any of you talking about?

      1. Spoiler: it’s always sodomy.

  9. Soccer practice says:

    Okay, let it finally be said, metal is fucking gay. Rainbow yourself all over, because this is long overdue. You’re manlier listening to Beyonce than Slayer.

    1. Mark says:

      Sure man

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