4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours a nice golden color, has a strong fresh hop scent. Has a rather pleasing taste for a 10% beer, smooth after taste and rather drinkable.
4.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: OCT 25, 2011 Bottled on Jan 11th. Pours a nice clear honey color. Alcohol in the aftertaste. Simcoe hops. Very easy drinking ipa; so smooth. Awesome beer. Let this one warm up, great body. Feb 8th batch: Very passion-fruity, delicious. Have this within a month or so of bottling date, quality does drop. My favorite beer at the time of rating.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Pours a brilliant orange gold color with perfect clarity. Tightly packed white head leaves generous lacing all around. This is a beer out of a commercial, just stunning. The aroma is even better. Like scoping up a handful of freshly picked hops and sticking them up your nostrils. Packed with floral citrus notes including grapefruit, orange, and pineapple. Pine sap, herbs, and some malty sweetness all comes together in an aroma that is enticing as anything. I want to package this scent into a candle. So far this beer has the makings of one of the best.
The flavor is so mouth watering good. Sweet tangy pine weaves its way through a massive hoppy bitterness. Tropical fruits pull together this harmony. The malt backbone is relaxed and lets the hop juice shine. The finish is never ending hops with a bit of earthy grass to it. The body is just right, at 10% ABV it’s way too drinkable. I planned on just drinking one, but that is like limited a pothead to only one hit. It goes down so smooth with soft carbonation. I feel stupid getting so worked up over a beer, but goddamn is this good.
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Overall : delicious. If you like hops, if you like IPA, you’ll like this. Starting with the bottle design, the experience is excellent. Once open, the aroma is excellent, hoppy. The taste is hoppy but a tad sweet, and it lingers just a bit as you drink it down.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle (35 cl) from the Cracked Kettle. Clear deep golden, brief white head. Perfumy and piney hop aroma with tropical fruits, some honey, and a light touch of alcohol. Medium bodied and smooth. Dry with a light touch of sweetness, bitter finish. Very good, and without that alcoholic touch it could be my no 1 DIPA.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
I had beer in draft form and in the bottle this beer is very good, well balanced grapefruit taste forward. Good carbonation finishes very good. this beer is very well done
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle. Trade from bulldogp04. Bottled Jan ’11. Thanks! It pours bit hazy golden with a creamy white head. The aroma is loads of Simcoe hops. Citrus, grapefruit, mango, peach, passion fruit with an underlying but solid caramel base. Loads of sweet fruit, honey, caramel, peach, light pine, passion fruit, citrus, grape fruit in the flavour. Lots of exotic fruit going on here. It has a long fruity and bitter finish. Very drinkable and very good!
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Guess I’ll start with a big dog like Hopslam for my first review. Aroma is a nice floral/citrus combination. Mouthful is just ever so slightly thick with moderate carbonation. Somewhat bitter, but in a good way. Grapefruit is the predominant flavor I’m finding. Hides it’s 10 abv extremely well. Very well done Bells.
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