Bear Creek Double Jack Imperial IPA

Formerly brewed at Bear Creek Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Redmond, Washington USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Beer pours cloudy glowing orange with a very well retained off white head. Aroma is very big nice hops with both pine and pineapple appearing. Flavor surpases the promise of the aroma is taste like fresh hops were added to the bottle. Fresh hoppiness is akin to Bottleworks IPA, though not up to that standard. This is greatness in a bottle. Thank you Andre’!!!

Double Jack Imperial IPA--2004 22 oz. Bottle. 11.00% ABV. 70+ IBU’s? (3.75 / 5.0) 9.5% ABV? Light bottle conditioned sediment. Mild lacy head. Hazy bright light golden amber color. Rich floral fruit hop front. Big sweet creamy crisp caramel yeast fruit body. Rich mild hop spice hot end. Malt over hops. Sampled 9/21/2004.

Cloudy amber with a rockey white head, nice lacing. Good but mild citrusy, piney hop aroma. Med bodied and smooth. Flavor starts with a sweet malt bready flavor with a mildly sweet hop bite to finish. This is a 10 month old brew bottled in Oct ’2004. The big hop flavors have faded but it was still an enjoyable drink. 8505

The aroma had oranges and flowers w/ light fermented fruit, but the aroma as a whole was thin. The flavor was the same w/ slight citrus, light fruit, flowers and pine. The beer poured a cloudy brownish orange color w/ thin head and lacing. The mouthfeel was light and creamy.

Pours with an orange-amber body topped by a medium thick head with some lacing. The aroma is slightly sweet yet bitter with a slight citrus note. Seems a little weak. The flavor is sweet and malty with a nice bitterness and notes of pineapple. Full bodied, dry and a little smooth.

Poursa cloudy golden hue with a white head. Aroams of plastic, spice and honey. Mouthfeel is a thick with flavors of some hop varietal that I can’t think of because I have to start brewing, yet I know it’s a different hop than most double IPAs.

(Bottle) Thin, white cream head with a good viscosity and orange body. Nose of fermented oranges, brown sugar. For an imperial IPA. Its very tart and piney but not terribly hoppy?

Pours a hazy clouded orange copper with a thick, clumpy, pillowy white head. Very fresh grapefruity hoppiness with rich, lightly tart, caramel malt balance in the aroma. A crisp bitter hoppiness exists throughout the body with a light, nicely balanced malt sweetness on top. Finishes semi-dry and piney. A good double IPA. Thanks goldtwins!

Interesting, and definately the fruitiest Imperial IPA I’ve had... Pours a cloudy burnt-orange with some head that left a nice lace down the side of the glass. Aroma is very fruity, almost like a smoothy, complete with bananas and strawberries. Flavor is just as fruity with only an aftertaste of bitterness that you’d expect with a IIPA, and that seems to come from spruce tips. Palate is kinda crispy, but it leaves the mouth coated. Overall it’s okay and nothing like the single version of their IPA.

Poured a hazy orange with a large off white head. Aroma of peaches and caramel. I expected a little more aroma hops (and body) for a double IPA. Flavor profile had malt, pine and finished a little tangy. I felt this would be beteer as an IPA.

Amber, slightly cloudy and some lacing with a small filmy head. Aromas of bubblegum, caramel, soap, lipstick and fruity citrus hops. Fair amounts of malts there aas well. Sweet toffee/caramel malt flavors. Plenty of hops with most being flowery and piney. Alcohol is lingering. Thick and sickly sweet palate with a malt finish.