3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, from trade. My celebratory IPA on the world’s International IPA Day is also my first rating from Bells! :-) Pours a clear golden orange body with a small white head. Nose is grass, honey, nuts and hints of almonds. A bit strange, but pleasant. Taste is smooth tones of honey and pine, with hints of nougat, grass and melon. Very original and very nice, although nowhere near the hype IMO. Still, props to Bells for creating something very unique; this is nearly a genre in itself. :-)
4.3 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle pours a clear golden orange with a small fleeting white head. Lots of citrusy hop aroma. Grapfruit, and mandarin oranges. Flavor is failry light malt body, but tons of hops. Bitterness and flavor. Mostly citrusy hop flavors, Simcoe and Cascade tastes like. Strong lingering bitter bite. Moderate to fairly carbonated and a smooth rich finish. Very nice and worthy of high marks. Thanks to BuckeyeBoy for sharing this trade.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: FEB 7, 2009 12oz bottle. Batch 8907. Pours clear copper with nice soapy white head. Aroma is wonderfully citrusy and hoppy with some sweet maltyness. Flavor is citrus, pine, sweet malt and bitter hops. Mouthfeel is a bit syrupy with sweet malt. A nice DIPA but a bit over rated.
Re-Rate: The aroma is great, Flavor is nice. Still a little to much sweet malt for my palate but this is a good IIPA. I think I was expecting a little to much the first go around. A fine beer it but stil not worth its lofty rating.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
12 oz bottle pours a hazy orange. Aroma is hops citrus, sweet hops and lots of them. Flavor is sweet at first quickly followed by a smack of hoppy bitterness that finishes almost sweet. Lots of grapefruit and a little pine. Very good and much better fresh.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cloudy, with an orange yellow hue. White small head that mostly diminished, poor lacing, visible carbonation. Nose was sweet, bitter, grapefruit, pineapple, and very hoppy. Flavour was thin, sweet, bitter, very hoppy and a somewhat lingering hoppy aftertaste. Mouthfeel was hoppy and thin. Medium body. Truly is a hopslam to the throat.
4.4 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Very aromatic! Could smell it while pouring from the bottle here at Bodega Brew Pub downtown La Crosse. Big head that’s lasting a while with some lace. Aroma and taste are exceedingly hoppy with a huge grapefruit character. A little pine in there too. Muted malt characteristics. Well carbonated. Nothing too special in the body. Looong hoppy finish.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle:
Small white head on top of a clear orange colored beer.
Smell hops, flowers, bitter, sweet, fruits, orange, light grapefruit and citrus.
Taste hops, flowers, bitter, soft, light grapefruit, lemon, light sweet, fruits, peach, orange, grapefruit and a hint of strawberry.
Full body, low carbo and a soft ingly mouthfeel. Lovely.
4.6 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: FEB 16, 2008 Draft at Issac Newtons. Bottle thanks to Stoutlover72, Thanks for this awesome beer.
Holy F’n smell. Very grapefruit, star ruby grapefruit smell. Fantatsic!!! Very cloudy look with thin head and stays till the end. Great flavor that may not be as good as the smell makes it out to be but whatever. Good mouthfell and slightly sticky. One of the best IIPA’s I’ve ever had! Very smooth and it’s balance is spooky*
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