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Hoptimaal offers a wide variety of beers both in-store and online. If you can place an order, we usually have the product in stock (though mistakes can happen, unfortunately). Products that are in stock will be shipped the same day if ordered before 3:00 PM.

If we make an error with stock levels, you will be notified within 24 hours. In that email, we will offer you an alternative product, the right to a full refund, and a new delivery time. It's up to you how you'd like us to resolve the issue.

We ship all orders with DPD from the Netherlands. You can choose between:

  • Home delivery or delivery to your work
  • Delivery to a DPD pickup point near you

Shipping costs and the free-shipping threshold for your country are in the table below.

Deposit

On cans and bottles we charge the Dutch deposit (statiegeld): €0.15 per can and €0.10 per bottle (a little more for some bottles). It shows as a separate line in your cart. The deposit belongs to the Dutch deposit system: you can return the packaging in the Netherlands, not in deposit machines in other countries.

Shipping Costs by Country

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CountryShipping costReduced rateFree shipping from
Netherlands€8.50–€75
Belgium€8.95–€100
Germany€13.50–€100
Denmark€15.95–€150
Austria€15.95–€150
Bulgaria€47.50€25 from €150not available
Estonia€17.50–€150
Finlandpickup point €24.95
home €29.95		home: €10 from €200pickup point €200
home €250
France€16.95–€150
Greece€29.50€15 from €150not available
Hungary€21.95€10 from €150€200
Ireland€15.95–€150
Italy€16.95–€150
Croatia€47.50€25 from €150not available
Latvia€17.50–€150
Lithuania€21.95€10 from €150€200
Luxembourg€12.95–€150
Poland€15.95–€150
Portugal€19.95€10 from €150€200
Romania€27.50€10 from €150not available
Spain€18.75–€150
Czech Republic€15.95–€150
Swedenpickup point €24.95
home €29.95		home: €10 from €200pickup point €200
home €250
Norway*Coming soon
United Kingdom*Coming soon
Switzerland*Coming soon

Delivery

DPD generally delivers within 24 hours after receiving the parcel. So if we have received your order before 15:00 on working days, in 99% of cases you will have your order at home the next day. It may sometimes happen that they need one day longer. You can follow this via the Track & Trace details you receive from us, so you can see exactly where your order is. DPD also gives you a time window of 2 to 4 hours in which your order will be delivered. Not at home? No problem! You can indicate yourself whether you want them to come by again tomorrow or whether they should deliver it to the nearest post office.

Do you have a question about the delivery of your beer? Feel free to contact us: customer service.

Returns

You have a cooling-off period of 14 days after you have received the product. Within this period you can register the product for return. The email you received stating that your order is on its way contains a link that you can use to easily and free of charge download and print a return label. Returning is free: we provide the return label and the shipping costs of your return are at our expense. After registering your return, you have another 14 days to send the product back. If you bought multiple items at once, the period starts after receipt of your last item.

How do I return or exchange a product?

  • Fill in the return form within 14 days after receipt. If you are unable to print the return form, please write at least the order number and your name on a piece of paper and include it with your return.
  • Register your return with our customer service. You can do this by sending an email to: info@hoptimaal.nl or by calling 085 -130 1591. Or print your return label yourself via the link in the email titled "Your order is on its way".
  • After registering your return, you have another 14 days to send the product back.
  • Then send your return back in its original condition and with the packaging. Products that are damaged or incomplete are not eligible for exchange or refund.

Please note: after the 14-day cooling-off period it is no longer possible to return your product.

What can you expect after returning your product?

After receiving your return, you will receive a confirmation from us. This can take 3 working days, but in general we process your return on the day we receive it. We will check your return to see whether your product meets our return conditions and will then get to work on the solution you want.

Do you want your money back?

  • We will refund the purchase amount within 3 working days after confirmation of receipt to the account with which you paid. If you want to receive the purchase amount in another way, please contact us about the possibilities.
  • In case of visible signs of use, missing accessories or missing packaging, you are no longer entitled to a refund. If the packaging is not returned entirely in its original condition, we won't make a fuss and you will in any case get 75% of the purchase amount back. This is very rarely the case; usually the full purchase amount is simply refunded.

Do you want to receive a new product?

After receiving your return, we will send the new product right away. If the product is no longer in stock, we will refund the purchase amount to the account with which you paid.

  • Is the new product cheaper? The remaining amount will be refunded to your account within 3 working days.
  • Is the new product more expensive? You will receive a payment request for the remaining amount. After receipt of payment, we will send the product immediately.
  • Do you want to receive the new product at a different address or on a different day? Please contact us.

Exceptions

Beer that has been opened will not be taken back. We also do not take back beer that you ordered at a discount because the shelf life is almost expired. Of course we state this clearly on the product page, so that you are not surprised by a limited best-before date.

The item may be returned to the address below:

Hoptimaal
Leeghwater 5
3825MR Amersfoort
Netherlands

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Triple IPA

Triple IPA is a name brewers use for an IPA that wants to go a step further than a double IPA. It is not an official style: what exactly it is, the brewer decides.

  • Alcoholno official range; a double IPA goes up to 10% (BJCP) or 10.6% (Brewers Association)
  • Entry levelFor the adventurous

How it usually tastes

Bitter
Sweet
Sour
Roasted
Fruity
Full

Average for this style; every beer has its own accent.

What is it?

You will not find the triple IPA in the big style guides. Both the BJCP and the Brewers Association stop at the double or imperial IPA, which goes up to 10% alcohol according to the BJCP and up to 10.6% according to the Brewers Association. Untappd does have the sub-styles 'IPA - Triple' and 'IPA - Triple New England / Hazy'.

Because there is no style description, there is also no fixed taste or fixed limit. The American magazine Hop Culture wrote in 2017 that the difference from a double IPA is: 'whatever the brewer decides it is'. It found beers sold as triple IPA with 9.6% and 10% alcohol, so within the range of a double IPA, and one with 12%.

An early example shows how one brewery saw it. The Californian brewery Russian River built its triple IPA on the recipe of its double IPA, 'pushing the envelope with malt, hops, and alcohol'.

Hop Culture therefore gives this advice: look at the alcohol percentage, not at the style name.

Myth or fact?

Myth

‘Triple IPA is an official beer style with fixed rules.’

The big style guides of the BJCP and the Brewers Association do not recognise a triple IPA. It is a name that brewers choose themselves.

Myth

‘Triple IPA is an official beer style with fixed rules.’

Beer styles are described in style guides, of which those of the BJCP and the Brewers Association are the best known. In the full texts of both (BJCP 2021 and Brewers Association 2026), 'triple IPA' does not appear. The strongest IPA style there is the double or imperial IPA, up to 10.0% alcohol according to the BJCP and up to 10.6% according to the Brewers Association.

The word is not entirely made up, though. Untappd does have sub-styles such as 'IPA - Triple' and 'IPA - Triple New England / Hazy'. And in 2009 the Great American Beer Festival widened the name of its category for strong IPAs, because triple and quadruple IPAs were emerging.

The American magazine Hop Culture looked into it in 2017 and concluded that the difference from a double IPA is 'whatever the brewer decides it is'. It found beers sold as triple IPA with 9.6% and 10% alcohol, within the range of a double IPA. The magazine's advice: look at the alcohol percentage, not at the style name.

Sources

Myth

‘A triple IPA is three times as strong as a regular IPA.’

According to the BJCP, an American IPA has 5.5–7.5% alcohol. Three times as strong would be 16% or more; beers sold as triple IPA had 9.6 to 12%.

Myth

‘A triple IPA is three times as strong as a regular IPA.’

Like 'double', 'triple' is not a multiplication, but a way of saying: one more step further.

According to the BJCP, an American IPA has 5.5–7.5% alcohol. Three times as strong would come to 16.5–22.5%. The examples we found were nowhere near that strong. Hop Culture mentioned beers of 9.6%, 10% and 12% in 2017. The early example from the Californian brewery Russian River had 11% alcohol in 2011, according to Jeff Alworth, and the 2026 edition has 10.25%, according to the brewery.

On the hops, Alworth did quote the brewery in 2011: this beer was 'hopped three times more than our standard IPA'. Whether that also holds for other triple IPAs is not known: no style guide prescribes it.

Sources

Myth

‘A triple IPA is related to the Belgian tripel.’

Only the name is similar. For IPA, 'triple' means: one more step further than the American double IPA. The real cross between IPA and Belgian beer is called Belgian IPA.

Myth

‘A triple IPA is related to the Belgian tripel.’

Tripel and triple look alike, but the beers have little to do with each other.

The triple IPA is an American step further than the double IPA. The Californian brewery Russian River built its triple IPA in 2005 on the recipe of its double IPA, with more malt, hops and alcohol. The Great American Beer Festival widened its category for imperial or double IPAs in 2009, because triple and quadruple IPAs were emerging at the time.

According to the BJCP, the tripel is a strong, pale Belgian beer with a somewhat spicy character, for which a spicy-fruity Belgian yeast strain is typical.

An IPA with that Belgian yeast does exist, but is called something else: Belgian IPA. The BJCP describes it as a dry, hoppy IPA with the fruitiness and spiciness of Belgian yeast, often 'similar to a Belgian Tripel that has been brewed with more hops'.

Sources

Myth

‘An IPA gets better if you leave it for a while.’

The hop aroma that an IPA is all about declines when you store it, especially if it is warm. Drink IPA as fresh as possible.

Myth

‘An IPA gets better if you leave it for a while.’

In master's research at Oregon State University (Barnette, 2018), dry-hopped beer was stored cool (3 °C) and warm (30 °C), with different amounts of dissolved oxygen. The storage temperature had the biggest effect on the aroma. With heat and more oxygen, tropical, citrus and hoppy aromas disappeared, and malty, dried-fruit and cardboard aromas took their place. Oxygen had a smaller, but demonstrable effect after just two weeks.

Other research, from the VLB in Berlin (2022) on eleven commercial hoppy ales, shows that it is more nuanced. Some hop aroma compounds stayed reasonably stable, other aroma compounds (esters) less so, and compounds that go with ageing increased.

The Brewers Association writes of the double IPA that the beer must show 'the fresh character of hops', without oxidised or aged flavours.

So store IPA cool and drink it fresh.

Sources

Where does it come from?

Russian River first brewed Pliny the Younger in the winter of 2005, as a winter beer based on the recipe of its double IPA. In 2011 beer writer Jeff Alworth described it as an 11% 'triple IPA', which according to the brewery was 'hopped three times more than our standard IPA' and was dry hopped four times. Whether it was the first triple IPA, we could not establish with an authoritative source.

According to Tom Acitelli, author of a history of the American craft movement, in 2009 the Great American Beer Festival changed the name of its category 'Imperial or Double India Pale Ale' to 'Imperial India Pale Ale'. That was to make room for the triple and quadruple IPAs that were emerging at the time.

How to pour it

A good starting point: 7–10 °C, the general suggestion of the American Homebrewers Association for IPAs; according to the same source, you pour stronger beer slightly warmer. Store it cool and drink it fresh, because storing it warm costs you hop aroma.

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Terms

Double / imperial
Designation for a stronger and more intense version of a well-known style, such as a double IPA (7.5–10% alcohol according to the BJCP) or an imperial stout (8–12%).
Alcohol percentage (% vol.)
How much alcohol is in the beer, measured by volume (6% vol. is 6 ml of alcohol per 100 ml of beer); under the EU rules, the figure on the label for beer up to and including 5.5% vol. may deviate by 0.5% vol. upward or downward, and for stronger beer by 1% vol.
Dry hopping
Adding hops after the wort has been boiled, often during or after fermentation, for a fresh, strong hop aroma without the beer becoming appreciably more bitter.
Hops
The cone-shaped flowers of the female hop plant (Humulus lupulus), which give beer bitterness, aroma and flavour and inhibit bacteria.
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