 thickfreakness (130), AUSTIN, Texas, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Sep 6, 2008 Bottle thanks to bgramer. Pours hazy golden amber with a nice off white head that leaves a bit of lacing. Smells of huge pine and citrus with some sugary bread and alcohol in for good measure. Soapy pine and citrus in the flavor with lots of harsh bitterness. Quite a bit of booze and lingering sweetness as well. Quite dry medium body with light to medium carbonation.
CharlesDarwin (1836), Point Judith, Rhode Island, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Sep 3, 2008 12oz Bottle. G5. Mildly oxidized juicy barleywine-like hop punch. Soapy, yeasty and delightful. Pours a hazed golden-orange, with a rim in white. Flavor is puckery and totally old. Devasted celery seed weeps of hop dust. Chewy and creamy, but totally beyond a double IPA deceny. There’s some hot yeast-alcohol phenols that really hold through and probably would have been obliterated by the hop juiciness, when fresh, but now it dominates the profile of the beer in a peculiar way. In the end, how hard can I be on a past-its-prime hoppy beer. I’m glad to have tried it. I can see through some of the age to what the beer may have been. Thanks Sean!
blutt59 (2100), Dallas, Texas, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 20, 2008 bottle, orange tangerine color with an off white short lived head, nose is graham cracker and pines, flavor is excellent blend of pine, grapefruit, lemon and graham crackers, melds nicely as it warms up
omhper (12171), Stockholm, Sweden
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Aug 17, 2008 Bottled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Clear reddish amber, mid-sized head. Aroma of citrus peel and blood grape. Sweet, soapy and perfumy with medium-full body. Some light caramel and black currant, well rounded mouthfeel. The bitterness is strong, but never assaulting. It imay be well sweet, and there are certainly American beers that has both more intense and more delicious hop character. The soft mouthfeel and good balance however lifts it several notches.
ante (2928), Stockholm, Sweden
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Aug 15, 2008 Bottled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Hazy amber with a small white foam. Sharp frity arom aof immatue white grapefruits, chardonnay grapes and metal.Nearly full-bodied with notes of elder, grapefruit and resin. Resiny warming finish of citrousy fruits.
TOSG55 (75), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 7, 2008 Bottle. Pours a light orange, with a thin white head that dissipates slowly. Aroma is floral hops. Flavor is citrusy hops, well-balanced with sweet, honey-like malt flavors. The 9% ABV is very noticeable, but not unpleasant. Very drinkable. Certainly one of the better imperial IPAs out there, and quite reminiscent of the excellent Bell’s Hopslam.
SamsCellar (3), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
does not count  | 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Aug 1, 2008 Manditory to decant this beer into a nice pint glass to get the full aroma. Respectable, white head that emits a broad spectrum of citrus and pine. Light orange in color. Good amount of sweetness that takes the edge off the hops, some may say a little too sweet, but it makes it a suprisingly easy drinker. Didn’t really notice the high ABV untill the last sip that had warmed to room temp. Good beer for a hot day.
KieferUGA (461), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 19, 2008 12 oz. bottle. Light orange pour. Medium sized, white head. Good bit of lacing. Nice aroma of citrus and piney hops. Big malty backbone, but the hops are the main draw in this brew. Very nice, sticky, hop resin flavor. Slightly bitter finish with some warming alcohol.
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