Hop-head

a drug user or addict. hophead is an umbrella term for users of everything from cocaine to marijuana (or ‘tea’ – which is a jazz era term, not one that originated with the beats as is erroneously noted elsewhere @ the urban dictionary) to benzedrine (aka ‘bennies’/amphetamine). the term sprang from the early jazz scene in 1920’s/30’s america.

decades later, beer aficionados appropriated the term to refer to themselves (with a wry tip of the hat to it’s original meaning).
mezz mezzrow, an early marijuana dealer, smoked his own product and was himself a hophead.
someone who enjoys really hoppy beers, or drinks hoppy beers exclusively. most likely this person is a beer-geek or craft-brew drinker.

hops are what give beer the citrusy, piney, or sometimes what bring out the herbal or fruity flavors.
man, that stone ruination ipa turned me into a true hop-head.
a lover of all beers hoppy. a hophead espouses the merits of india pale ales, russian imperial stouts, and other highly hopped beers. a hophead may even chew fresh hops in an attempt to quench his insatiable desire for hops. a hophead would sooner suffer castration than drink the typical bmc (bud /miller/coors) swill.
wow, i just tried three floyds’ dreadnaught imperial ipa. it’s a hop -rg-sm in a bottle.
you, sir, are a hophead.
beer drinker who heavily prefers hop-dominated brews. typically drinks ipas or double ipas. because of this, rarely drinks macro beers. the term itself (rather than the charachteristic) is almost certainly a progeny of the rise of micro- (now called craft-) brewing.
“that dude only drinks ipas; sneers at everything else; major hop head”
one who habitually uses “hop” or opium. also hop-habit: opium addiction.
“lemme tell you ’bout willie the weeper,
willie the weeper, yeah, the chimney sweeper
he had the hop-habit and he had it bad
lemme tell you ’bout a dream he had”

–old ragtime song about opium.
noun; a now-extinct term formerly used in the 1920’s to 1950’s, referring to a user of illicit drugs such as goof b-lls or muggles (marijuana). the term is used in the movie “reefer madness”
boy: “these are my new friends, dad”.

dad: “i want all those d-mned hop heads off the place, now!”
n. a person who loves the flavor of hops, specifically in brewing.
there are several beers t-tled “hophead” including an english bitter by dark star brewing, and a red ale by green flash brewing. there is also a hophead brewery. hophead.com is a website about beer and brewing.

ipas (india pale ale) or double ipas are examples of beer styles that are favored by hopheads.

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