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Ballast Point Dorado Double IPA

Ballast Point Dorado Double IPA

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An Imperial/Double IPA brewed by
Ballast Point Brewing Company

San Diego, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
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Broad Distribution
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3023.9/5.03.89/5.09.6%85.8Snifter, Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
On a quest to make delicious beers, our brewers have continually sought creative new ways to accentuate the delightfully aromatic and flavorful qualities of hops. Hopheads rejoice! Dorado Double IPA takes hops to a new level. Mash Hopping, First Wort Hopping, Kettle Hopping, and Dry Hopping create an award winning beer that embodies San Diego’s reputation for making world class IPAs. Our bottle Robust Series gives all beer lovers an opportunity to try our most rare beers, previously available only on draft at select tap houses. Enjoy! Get the Point! World Beer Cup 2006 Bronze Award Winner

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 Ungstrup (11713), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
Jan 21, 2007  
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with an off-white head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of both hops and caramel. The flavor is sweet amtly with strong notes of hops, and a thick caramel body, leading to an OK bitter end.


 Papsoe (11076), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/515/20
Jan 14, 2007  
(Bottle 65 cl) Pours amber golden with tiny impurities and a small, creamy white head. Fresh, citrusy, grapefruitish aroma. Quite full-bodied with some caramel and then some extremely perfumy aroma hops leaving a rather extreme bitterness. 080107


 omhper (10950), Stockholm, Sweden
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Dec 19, 2007  
<i>Bottled. </i> Almost clear pale amber, creamy head. Concentrated lychee aroma. Sweet and softly malty with lovely seemless aromatic hop character. Alcohol is evident, perhaps too much so, giving it notes of peach brandy. The powerful hops add not only lychee but also extreme bitterness and soem cocoa. Excellent, but their Big Eye IPA is even better.


 yespr (7843), Copenhagen O, Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Apr 18, 2008  
22 fl oz bottle. Pours slight hazy and orange with a dense off-white head. Citrus/orange peel fruity and pinewood hops aroma. Fruity and dry hops flavour: citrusy, orange fruit, peaches, pinewood and light apricot. Nicely balanced sweet caramel malt base accompanying this. Goes into a lovely fruity hoppy finish slowly declining in fruit flavours into a rather dry set of hops. Great!


 joergen (6821), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
May 16, 2008  
Bottle. Clody amber coloured with a huge off white head. Fruity aroma of hops, pine needles and peaches. Flavour of fruits, caramel, cardemomme, hops and pine needles. Dry hoppy finish.



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