Hop-Fu! is North Park Beer Co.'s flagship, and this week it's back in the rotation alongside three newer releases in the San Diego brewery's latest can and draft drop. The double dry-hopped West Coast IPA has now picked up a World Beer Cup gold in 2022 and silver medals in both 2024 and 2026.
The hop bill runs nine deep - Chinook, Simcoe, Citra, Citra Cryo, Citra DynaBoost, Amarillo, Mosaic Cryo, Mosaic, and Columbus Cryo - and North Park describes the result as pine and dank resin up front, with grapefruit, lemon zest, and stone fruit trailing into a citrusy, slightly floral finish.
Thinking about the hops and flavor profile
Stacking nine hops in one beer usually works against clarity - more varieties competing for the same aroma space tends to average everything out into a generic "hoppy" impression rather than distinct notes. Hop-Fu! avoids that by leaning on repetition rather than variety for its own sake: three separate Citra products and two Mosaic products form the backbone, with Chinook, Simcoe, Amarillo, and Columbus Cryo layered in around them. That's less a scattershot of nine different flavors and more a small number of core hop characters reinforced through different processing forms, which likely explains why the finish holds a clear pine-to-citrus-to-stone-fruit progression instead of collapsing into mud. At 7.5 percent ABV, the beer also has enough malt backbone to carry that much hop material without losing shape.
Hop-Fu! is available now in cans and on draft at North Park's taprooms, with pickup and California shipping options through the brewery's site.
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