Willimantic Pushing the Envelope Extreme

Brewed by Willimantic Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Willimantic, Connecticut USA

Draft at the brewpub. Pours an amber orange body with an off white head. Sweet hoppy tones, pine, grapefruit and citrus notes. Piney with a nice fruit contingent. Fresh floral hoppiness and a modest malt bill to warm the hoppiness. Excellent ipa.

Big tropical fruit aroma. Reddish brown pour not much head, nice sticky lace with good bubbles as well. Big tropical fruit flavors up front. Very fruity and nice. Not over the top bitterness, but a good use of hops to create a good deal of tropical fruit. Caramel and pale malts add some sweetness that helps with the fruity profile of this iipa. Finish is not as hoppy and long as I would like, but the drinkability is insanely high in this one.

Courtesy SoLan. Hazy dark amber pour, thin even white head. Moderately hoppy aroma, a bit of a muddy character to it. A bit milder on the taste than I anticipated, but still very drinkable and crisp, with a nice lingering hop finish.

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Thanks to SoLan! Great American IPA with a ton of citrus and pine, and a smooth finish.

Brazen gold with a perfect long lasting almost beige head. Mandarin, sweet mango and candy apple aromas. BANG. Mandarins and sweet orange pith. Very dry, very bitter tongue dryness. Thick mango and banana, deep rustic roasted malts. So deep and complex, but light and fruity.

Growler, courtesy Solan. Pours a dark orange color with a small and foamy white head that settles to a thin film leaving swirls of lacing in the glass. The aroma is huge of piney hops, pine resin, and citrus hop bitterness. The flavor follows suit with the fresh pine and resinous hops, bitter grapefruit and citrus hops balanced out by a sweet toffee and caramel malt base. The hops run the show in this brew though. Medium bodied with ample carbonation and long, bitter finish from all the hops. This is a really hoppy double ipa, and one I enjoyed.

Growler thanks to Pantanap. Amber color with red tint and small, creamy, white head. Aroma is citrus, pine, very resiny, you can smell it from across the room. Flavor is very tropical fruits with that resin, grapefruit, and very earthy. Medium body with good carbonation. Pretty fantastic. Thanks Kan!

Tasted at the Throwdown. Really good double ipa. Nice orangey dark color. Nice citrusy smell. Evergreeny and grapefruit. Nice bitter hops. Incredibly bitter.