4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Hazy amber in color with a small off white head. Aroma of moderate to strong floral and citrus hops and malt. Flavor is potent with alot of pale malt and assertive hop flavor. Some slight citrusy sweetness...finishes bitter. Very nice.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
on tap-pours an off white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel, pine/resin. Taste is pine/resin/grapefruit rind/acidic hops bite, secondary medium malt, alcohol. More I2PA/ASA but good.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep amber pour. The nose is very hoppy with lots of grapefruit, citrus and pine. Heavy malt sweetness that underlies and resiny piny character. Although sweet, the malts aren’t really caramelly at all. Warming brings up some lighter lemony citrus character that is fairly unusual. It’s fairly hoppy and chewy and the malts are light enough that I’d call this more IIPA than barleywine, although regardless what you call it, it’s still damn tasty.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(draft) Hazy amber body with off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, cherry, orange, light grapefruit. Taste is moderately sweet, cherry, caramel, orange, light grapefruit. Medium-full body, some resin.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Draft at the brewpub - Poured a darkish orage-amber in color with a thick, creamy light tan head that hung around to produce some nice lacing on the glass. Aroma was strong of citrus hops with a hint of some malty sweetness lingering in the background. Flavor was hoppy, but not overpoweringly so. Plenty of citrus/grapefruit. Initially slightly sweet before the hops come roaring in. Finish is medium bitter and clean. Very easy drinking for a beer with nearly 10% ABV, but it is certainly all there. Really good!!
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