21st Amendment Dub Step

Brewed by 21st Amendment Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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In the brewery tap on 5th Feb 2013, during ’Strong Beer Month’. Pours a pleasant amber colour, clear, with a full beige head. Mixed bag of flavours and smells: hops obviously rule throughout but there is an undertone of semi-sweet caramel/malty molasses in the brew also. Citrus based hop aroma, comes through into the taste nicely but doesn’t take over completely. The alcohol level is noticeable but not to the beers detriment, it suited the strong flavours well.

Tap. Pours clear amber with thin, fizzy white head; short retention and spare lacing. Aroma is citrus, grassy, and floral hops, grapefruit, biscuit and cereal malts, and light toffee. Flavor is balanced dry, bready malts and grassy hops with supporting light fruit esters, toast, and some citrus; dry, bitter finish. Medium body and low carbonation.

Tap @ Max’s. Pours clear amber with a small, fizzy white head, short retention with spare lacing. Aroma is citrus, floral and pine hops, honey and biscuit malt with apple and pear fruity esters. Flavor is heavy hops and medium bitterness, sweet malt and a dry finish. Full body and medium carbonation.

Tap at Churchkey for the CBC. Poured a hazy orange-amber color with a medium sized white head. Aroma was citrus and some pine notes, tropical fruits, alcohol noticeable. Flavor was citrus, tropical fruits, booze is there. Liked the hop character but sweetness and alcohol were a bit much.

Draft @ 13th Bistro Double IPA Festival, Hayward, CA. Pours a hazy amber color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter piney aroma with hints of caramel. Fruity malty caramel hoppy bitter piney flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter caramel finish.

Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Citrus and grapefruit aroma with light pine. Pine and grapefruit flavor with caramel. Medium-plus bodied. Good bitterness. Pine and grapefruit linger with caramel and light earth.

Pours a golden amber color with a white head. Nice citrus and pine hops, but very sweet and malty. Big caramel, hints of grass, and a light alcohol note. There’s a lot of sweet caramel to the flavor and quite a bit of pine. Very resinous and bitter. Some citrus peel notes and a light alcohol warmth on the finish.

On tap at brewery. Clear golden with a fizzy white head. Faint cereal grain and alcohol aroma. Sweet caramel and citrus hops with a big earthy resiny bitter bite with a dry warming alcoholic finish. Smooth full bodied palate.

On tap at Bistro DIPA Fest poured a clear gold with a small lasting amber head. Aromas of bread, lemon zest and light earthiness. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of bread, earthiness and lemon zest with a crisp dry bitter finish.