 JohnnyJ (1282), Carlsbad, California, USA
Apr 18, 2009 On tap at Stone Bistro. A nice IIPA. Gold/orange pour, with sticky off-white head. Piney hops, sweet caramel malt, biscuits, floral notes, citrus, and pineapple. The hops are very fresh and bitter. Excellent!
Naven (864), Poway, California, USA
Apr 17, 2009 On Tap @ Callahans. Hops, Hops, Hops. Classic West Coast Super hopped IIPA. A little sweeter than I would like, but that’s my only complaint. I could go for a Keg of this stuff.
DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 14, 2009 Growler from Craft Ale, and a pint at Capone’s, my two current favorite beer hangouts. The pour is dark straw, more toward gold than brown, with 1-finger of well retained off-white head. The nose is heavy piney hops, caramel malt, some fruit, peppery spice, tangerine. Tastes assertively hoppy with a good malt balance, and some finishing fruit. Well incorporated alcohol makes this one very easy to drink, and a damned fine IIPA. Give me another growler of this one any day of the week, and twice when my wife isn’t around.
jcwattsrugger (5223), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
Apr 11, 2009 on tap @Capones–pours a white head nad gold color. Aroma is nice pine/citrus hops, secondary sweet medium malt. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel, then pine/resin hops with some bite.
badlizard (2324), Berkeley, California, USA
Apr 10, 2009 Clear golden orange with a fizzy white head. Big grapefruit and pine aroma and taste with butterscotch dominant and a slightly soapy over hopped taste.
agl108 (503), Manayunk, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 6, 2009 On draft at TJ’s Everyday, Paoli. Served in a snifter. Poured slightly hazy amber with small head. Sweet with lots of resinous pine flavor. Surprisingly thick and malty. Nice offering.
DaSilky1 (1932), San Diego, California, USA
Apr 5, 2009 Dark orange/amber. Super frothy, lacey off white head. Orange ribbon candy nose with spurts of caramel and spice, plump, juicy orange flavors with rindish bitterness in the finish. Fairly sweet and candy-like..flavors are actually quite nice. Slightly syrupy but not overly so, especially considering the sweetness here, which really takes those citrus hops and morphs them into orange candy. Really hot beer though..maybe not initially, but the throat and stomach feels thr warmth, almost burn quite quickly.
Lagunitasfan (432), San Diego, California, USA
Apr 2, 2009 On tap at stone. Clear amber with fluffy white head that disappeared quickly to a tight ring. Nose is sweet hops with a bitterness. Similar to Green Flash IIPA but not nearly as strong. Flavor is same pungent sweet sharp hops as above. Lots of pine and citrus with the strong sweet hops. If you like this style, as I do, it’s a good brew.
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