4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Batch 10093 poured into an Ommegang flute.
The head is really big, but oh so manageable. You can pour with wreckless abandon and not worry about overflow. The head is big, rocky and sticky. Full on laceterpiece. The beer is a clear orange-gold.
The smell is apparent right away. Big sweet tropical fruits with pine backing it up. This is massively hoppy smelling but quite sweet on the nose.
The taste is pretty in line with the aroma, in that it is hugely hoppy with out all the hoppy bitterness. A medley of tropical fruits; pineapple, tangerine, banana, and coconut.
Dry body with a sharp carbonation. Superbly clean finish.
One of the beers that I look forward to ever year.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
on draft 2011 edition is out in full force. the aroma of hops and citrus and floral and hops and the taste is so smooth and grand. how does one do better than this. yellowish amber color served correctly and i just sipped until there was no more great brew for ny hop head.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle purchased from Bell’s general store in Kalamazoo, Mich. First bottle of the year! Smells of light malt and sweet, citrusy, west coast hops. Taste is dynamite. Best DIPA I’ve had. And yes, even better than PtE.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Opaque yellow orange. Foamy and delicious looking. Very floral nose, dry spice, honey. For flavor, only light malts; grassy, floral, orange and sweet lemon. It finishes crisp and dry with a little honey. There seems to be very little malt backing here. The alcohol heat comes not long after the crisp finish. This is unique, but not too elegant. Well-named.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Firkin! at pub in Kzoo during RBSG tour. It was hard to pick this pint up as I was holding 3 other pints. Honey, citrus, spice, melon, caramel, mandarin, sweat, biscuity aroma. Huge flavours of melon, ruby red grapefruit, some resin follows. Honey... lots of honey, mandarin, caramel and light bready notes. So fruity and wonderful tasting. Light spice and light pine. Great thick and slick mouth feel. Very good job hiding the 10%. Chugged the last half cause the bus was leaving.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Notes from 02/2009.
Pours beautifully. A golden, copper orange with a carbonated, creamy head of two fingers.
This smells wonderful. I’m in a field - no! - a forest with a bed of fresh pine needles. Very floral. Citrus. Honey. Fantastic. Taste is a balance of the citrus, resiny hops, and a malty sweetness. Just the slightest bit disappointed after the nose that this isn’t bigger, but that’s probably due to the balance of sweetness and finishing bitterness.
Medium to medium-full. Sticky. Somewhat low carbonation, which I tend to like in bigger beers.
I like this more than most IPAs/DIPAs I’ve had. Thick, sippable, and a delight to smell. Smooth. Glad I got a sixer of this.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Might not have been the best time to try this, preceeded by some big Impys. Sudued Toffee and floral hop nose. Alcohol is apparent. Bitter in the mouth with a good dry finish. Honey gives a unique perepective. Full bodied. Very good.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle shared by Jonno. Nice. Pumpkin colored, off-sided head. Nose was big, slightly oxidized smelling, with sharp edges of grapefruit. Flavors are ribbon candy & carmalized sugar lightly coating a dry grapefruity center. Tastes a lot more syrupy than the body actually is...maybe due to the attentuated honey and the dryness of grapefruit character of the hops combining with the deceiving residual sweetness of the malt bill. In any event, it’s most certainly interesting...but something I think I would have to get used to before falling in love with, but the potential is there.
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