3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
A- Body is transparent bright amber and pours with a very small foamy white head that dissipates almost immediately after the pour. A thin collar remains the whole way down. No lacing is left behind in the glass.
S-Nose is bright and blooming with citrus (mostly grapefruit) hops. Behind the citrus hops is a less prominent character of refreshing piny hops. Deep in the background is smooth caramel malt to balance out the hops.
T- I wish this brew tasted exactly as it smelled. Initial flavor is somewhat subtle and consists of mostly citrus hop flavor though both piny hops and caramel malt can be detected in the background. The citrus piny hop flavors strengthen for the finish. What is left to linger is some piny hop flavor, a very subtle flavor of caramel and a residual rind bitterness that is greater than moderate. The residual bitterness-to me- is borderline cloying.
P-Medium carbonation and smooth oily body that is full of hops. This is the kind of mouthfeel I wish were in every DIPA.
O- This is a very enjoyable DIPA but it didn’t do anything magical for me. It would be near perfect if it tasted exactly how it smells-but it doesn’t. The flavor is pretty good but didn’t blow me away. The ABV is very well hidden here. The strengths definitely lie in the smell and mouthfeel of this one. Pretty good brew overall and one I will have again.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 02-26-2008 03:02:35
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours orange/yellow in color with a normal-sized white colored frothy head. The carbonation is very apparent from the pour and the lacing is adequate. Aroma is very hoppy and consists of flowers, spice, honey, citrus, and caramel sweetness. It’s like someone dipped a nice smelling flower in honey. The taste is nice and bitter at first but then it leads into a sweet honey and light fruits ending. Almost no taste of alcohol even though this brew sits at 10%. A great well balanced IPA.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Big thanks to gn0sis for this. Bottle looks great, as well as the beer in the glass. Very zippy, huge head. Starts very strong, intense malty, flowery-grasy, quite dry. Finish a bit milder, more sweet than dry, still wonderful intense fruity. Goes down warming. Intense aftertaste. A great beer!
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle at Teresa’s. Pours I hazy amber body. Aroma is fresh hop and lots of fruits - grapefruit, tangerine, and nectarine. Mouthfeel is medium with notes of fruits mentioned in aroma, great Ipa
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: JUN 23, 2011 Bottle at Teresa’s. Pours I haazy amber body. Aroma is fresh hop and lots of fruits - grapefruit, tangerine, and nectarine. Mouthfeel is medium with notes of fruits mentioned in aroma, great Ila.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
lucent gold, lasting white head, sticky full body, med co2.
aroma: very fresh sweet fruity hops, toasted malt, slight minerality.
taste: fruity, juicy, leafy, co2 T1; caramel malt, leafy citrus hops, biscuit T2, thin hop resin, slight hop bitterness T3.
it’s like they have some fancy new variety of sweet hops in there. tastes like a scone with some hop jelly on it. Lots of hops, mostly late boil or dry, but just enough malt sweetness to almost balance it out. the hops are right in your face, but the bitterness is well under control. Can even survive a few of these without pallate fatigue.
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: APR 15, 2010 Pours a goldish amber orange, with a head that quickly faded on me. The aroma is big citrus hop, jumping out of the glass. Caught the hops before getting up close with my nose. The taste is huge and powerful. All Hop flavor, predominatly citrus- MAJOR PINEAPPLE. Like hoppy pineapple juice at times. For being so heavily hopped with a comparitively lighter malt presence, I was surprised that it wasn’t overly bitter, nor did the alcohol come out swinging. A hall of famer.
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Served from a 12 ounce bottle into a Belgium fishbowl goblet. Golden amber in color, average head recedes quickly. Lots of bubbly effervescence. I get 100% hoppy citrus grapefruit in the aroma, like a big glass of freshly squeeze grapefruit juice. More citrus grapefruit in the taste, with some malty backing. Very long citrusy and pine finish lingers in the mouth. Well carbonated, medium bodied, nice dry finish. Goes down too smooth for a 10% beer. Little to no alcohol taste -- would go equally as well paired with a main course or on it’s own as a stand-alone beverage.
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