Barrel House Boss Cox Double Dark IPA

Pours a dark reddish brown with a thin tan head. Sweet fruits and citrus hops in the aroma. Flavor is sweeter and maltier than you would expect from something calling itself an IPA, but it adds, rather than distracts, from the overall flavor. A decent amount of grapefruit hop flavor. It’s definitely an intriguing beer, and I give them credit for trying something different.

Weak wine aroma, which is really the only detraction from this serious brew. Pours a dark copper with little head and no lacing. Flowery citrus hops with low caramel malt not quite in balance. Finishes strong with an alcoholic after. Decent brew, strong.

poured a cloudy brown with a very small tan head. Smells sweet and malty. Taste is bitter chocolate, mixing hops and malts really well. Mouthfeel is perfect. Overall VERY impressive.

Dark amber color. Appears to be a dark porter or a stout. Light head that dissapated quickly. Pine hop aroma with malt mixed in. Comple flavor of caramel and chocolate malt with some hops present. Alcohol is noticeable. More malts than hops. Not bad but this is for a "one beer" evening.

Dark amber. Heavy malts, citrus and other fruit, light roasted malts in the aroma. I didn’t think the malts and hops blended well in the flavor and had a tough time drinking the entire bottle. Not a bad beer but I wish they chose a better hop-malt combination.

Dark caramel with big, foamy tan head / Big malt and cooked fruit nose / Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, touch of sweetness, with hops providing structure for bigger, dominating malts / Flavors of toasted malts, caramel and cooked, cloying grapefruit / Mediocre, with decent palate paired with clumsy flavor profile.

Aroma is very sweet. Appearance is a caramel dark. Flavor is very sweet and caramel.

Bomber. Poured clear deeper ruddy brown with a sticky, well-retained cap of beige head.. looked quite nice. The aroma picked up a rich sweetness that I really enjoyed (chocolates, toasted caramel, and treacle) with drier pine and dark citrus hoppage.. the focus was really on the malts here, and I dug it. The flavor wasn’t quite as solid.. lots of residual sugar in the form of caramel and toffee, which was amplified by some rough alcohol (especially at the back).. bitterness was moderate with some herbal and dark fruity presence (but a defining or well-balanced character was never achieved).. finished warm and bitter. Medium-bodied with low carbonation and a slow, building bitterness throughout.. better in the aroma than the flavor.