Barrel House Boss Cox Double Dark IPA

Brewed by Barrel House Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Bomber. Poured a dark ruddy brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of toffee malts primarily, with marmalade or candied citrus rind and piney hop notes. Toffee and brown sugar malts in the flavor with oily tasting piney/resiny/barky hops. Thankfully not classified here as a 2IPA, since it doesn’t have the tropical, floral and citrus aromatic hop cluster bombs on top of clean caramel/toffee malts that I’ve come to love in many good 2IPAs. At any rate, this is a pretty good malty, earthy and piney hopped strong brewed American ale.

22 oz bottle pours a clear chestnut body with a large beige head. Aroma of grapefruity hops, chocolate, and caramel. Taste follows suit, with some roasty notes joining the grapefruit, caramel, and chocolate. Tasty and quite drinkable. A chocolate IPA?

Date: 04/26/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Rich O’s

takes two foaming glasses to make a pint, hazy dark ruby red, big dense beige head, drippy lace, light caramel malt aroma with light floral hops, creamy body, rich dark caramel malt flavor, lots of balancing earthy hops, munich malt adds sweetness, touch of chocolate adds character as it grows richer, lots of rich and complex malt flavor balanced by a combination of hops, long light bitter finish, very light dyactyl shows at the end to blend with the milk chocolate and add an English quality,
-------- /> Date: 08/04/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: roadtrip

a great hoppy chocolate IPA, no dyactyl, sweetness brings out the chocolate and gets a bit sticky after a while, well balanced by lots of hops, the next generation of the india brown ale style,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Thanks to Joebrew for sharing. Brown color with faint head. Light hoppy nose. Grainy body with citrus hop finish.

22oz bottles acquired in trades with shigadeyo & mreusch (thanks!). Poured a deeper mahogany color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, citrus, butterscotch candies, and some pine. The caramel and butterscotch dominate. Tastes of caramel, citrus, and a little earthy. Malts dominate with the hoppiness taking a back seat. Alcohol well hidden. Weaker body.

A 22 oz bomber shared by joebrew, pours a dark semi-hazy brown amber brew with a light tan head that quickly dissolves to a fine film and ring. Aroma of caramel malt, vanilla, some grapefruit and toffee. Taste is medium bodied, lightly carbonated with flavors of caramel malt, some grapefruit zest, vanilla and some earthy spices. Finish is somewhat slick, semi-sweet with a caramel aftertaste. Not much of an IPA character but more of a dark American Ale.

Bottle. Dark, caramel-ey colored pour with a oily cream colored head. Barley wine like ale - creamy, with vanilla, oak, bourbon, and lots of sweet malt and some hops. Pretty flat in the flavor department, but easy to drink considering the ABV. All the complexity of the aroma is missing in the flavor, but it’s not horrible. Oily on the palate. Not great, but not awful.

Shared at Joebrew’s BBQ; courtesy of Joebrew, I think. Mahogany color with a large head. Aroma of stale alcohol. Strong toasted malt and caramel taste. Slight hop bitterness towards the finish, but more Earthy hop than citrus. Doesn’t taste like any kind of IPA, but not bad at all.