Abita Select Double IPA

Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Covington, Louisiana USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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The newest select. On tap this date at the Abita Brew Pub in Abita Springs. Abita is attempting to copy the likes of Harpoon Leviathan or Stone Ruination IPA with this one, and frankly, they’re pretty much nailing it. Pours a bronze color with a persistent head and nice Chantilly lace lacing. Nose is strongly floral with some wine notes in the background. Flavor is an absolute sensory overload with bitter, piney, woody hops battling it out with the flavor of distinctly sweet rich malts. Notes of pine, oak, grape, apple, citrus, and brandy are all apparent, mingled with too many other flavor notes to identify. Finish is a bitter-sweet chocolate like affair. The best "Select" Abita has produced to date!

Clear amber color/ white head. Nice floral, pine wood hoppy aromas. medium body. Very good floral, tropical fruit hop flavors on a solid caramel, candi sugar sweet base brew, great DIPA

Pretty good DIPA cept for the carbonation. Served with a thick, creamy, fine, off white head and good lace. Color is a clear amber with bubble streams. Aroma is mainly fresh hops, with malt, citrus, grass. Flavor is much the same as nose with bittersweetness out in front. Body is ok and carbonation is a bit flat. Finish is like flavor but needs the carbonation.

Pours amber, red, white foam, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, very easy to drink, overall very much enjoyed it

Draft¥ not overly hoppy. Nothing that stands outm overall a solid 2xIPA. Where the abv is not over powering the drinkability

Tap. Semi-clear orange pour. Clingy white head. Aroma of pine hops. taste is very well balanced - hop flavor is up front, but nearly no bitterness. Good stuff.

Pretty decent job by Abita.Draft poured a orange/copper with a fair white head.Nose was piney and floral.Nice hop bitterness with a little malt to back it up.One of the better Abita brews if not the best I’ve tried.

Draft at pony bar with streets and Brendan. Pours a copper body with thin white lacing. Mouthfeel is thin. Aroma and flavor of sweet caramel malts, light hops.

on draft at Wine World, pours light amber with a thin white head. Aroma is strong citrus hop and grapefruit. Flavor is candied pear and grapefruit hop flavors with a little bit of a pine bitterness in the finish.

Draft. Pours a clear copper amber color with a decent sized foamy white head. Citrus pine hops in the aroma. Flavor is fairly mild for a double IPA however. Not terrible, but not very exciting either. I was expecting and hoping for more bitterness in the finish.