4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle: Poured a orange clear color with a off white head. Aroma is nice grapefruit citrus and hops. Taste is citrus with a balance of hops and malts. I expected something more harsh, but this is very nice IIPA.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: MAY 13, 2007 12 oz bottle. I could smell the hoppy goodness as soon as I poured this one. Deep amber/orange color with a small white head. Aroma was an awesome sweet malt balance with some citrusy notes. Flavor is smooth with good hop/malt balance but dominated by a hop bitter aftertaste. Looked great, tasted great...damn this is one great beer. I just wish I had more then one.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: FEB 26, 2009 Mildly hazy amber with a medium beige head that slowly fades away and leaves splotches of lace. Aroma of heavy hops, grapefruit, citrus, sweet malt and some earth and piney hops. Taste of citrus hops, grapefruit, mild honey, more citrus hops and enogh sweet malt tossed in to make it extremely tasty and amazingly balanced. The alcohol is hidden well and it finishes with a medium bitter finish. When I first tried it a year ago I was a bit leery of the mega hops and now I’m loving them and this is one great beer.
(original 3-16-18)
At Three Cellars tasting. Orange in color with a strange hoppy aroma, I can’t quite describe. Overpowering hoppy finish, a bit too unbalanced though it bears its name well.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12oz bottle pours amber with a nice fluffy offwhite head that faded pretty quickly.. Good aroma of tropical fruits.. Grapefruit, pineapple, mango, some pine there as well. Flavor is grapefruit, pineapple, mango, and some good caramel malts behind it. Smooth full bodied and easy to drink.. Nice bitter finish.. Quite balanced.. Alcohol covered well. This one is dangerously easy to drink and amazingly tasty.. I’ve been looking forward to this and I wasn’t disappointed
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
batch 7690, 12 oz bottle from my SS.
Pours with a huge, creamy off-white head that rides over a hazy, medium orange body.
Moderate bready malt aroma punctuated by a juicy, pineapple-mango hop aroma.
The flavor balance goes heavily to the bitter side with this IIPA. Pineapple mango hop flavor that finishes and bitter. I’d like a bit more dryness with a IIPA that has this amount of bitterness.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: FEB 12, 2007 Bottle from trade with OhioDad. Thanks Scott! Pours a hazy orange with lots of carbonation and beatiful white lacing. Earthy, floral and citric hop aroma-a lot of grapefruit. mmm. This is tasty. A bit of pine needles, more grapefruit, fresh chewy resinous hops, and a sharp and efficient malt backbone. A great double ipa with very nice balance. I like hop heavy IIPA’s and this one does it just right. This is wonderful stuff.
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.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Well, the name does indicate what you get. Shiney golden color with a short lived white head that left some sticky lace. The nose does not wait for you to sniff it to make itself known. Huge pungent hop nose of pine and resin. If you like hops, you will like this beer. The alcohol is well hidden under all the flavor. Grapefruit rind, candied orange peel, pineapple, resin, apricot all explode on a stage of enough caramel sweetness and malts to support them, but just barely. This is a huge beer, and I think it did in fact bruise my tongue, but it is a solid example of this extreme style.
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