4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: AUG 8, 2008 Bottle courtesy of mreusch (Thanks Matt!) Pours a nice orange copper hue with fluffy head that develops. The aroma fills the air with sweet pineapple and a touch of malt. Flavor is equally powerfull, with less sweetness and more bitter hops, but not in a bad way, especially as it lingers without subsiding until a full 10 seconds pass. A hint of honey can be found if you look, but it doesn’t stand out too much. Really good brew.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled sample via Oakbluff on IIPA Saturday. Light amber in colour with medium carbonation. Huge hop aroma with notes of Centennial hops (orange/grapefruit), cut grass, and a bit of sweet tropical fruit. In the mouth, this beer is still all about the hops with loads of citric and light tropical flavors. Some sweetness is present as well, but the beer is not overly malty. Good drying bitterness. Great stuff!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 31, 2009 Sampled again from a fresh keg @ Redlight, as was much more impressed. Fresh cut citrus and pineapple aroma was great, and this beer is dangerous @ 10%.
Courtesy boboski. Hop aroma wasn’t as intense as I was anticipating, and it presented an odd pineapple-juice like aroma, along with some lemon rind smells. Nice cloudy dark yellow color with a thin wispy white head. Taste is a piney fruit hopiness with a hop finish that lingers, but at a low level. I’ll have to find another bottle of this to try.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
UPDATED: MAR 31, 2007 Thanks Kingpin fot the first taste of Hopslam. Another big wonderful hop bomb from the Midwest, a huge grapefruit and pine explosion on your nose,even bigger on your palate,as big a pure citrus taste as I’ve ever had in an IPA, just not enough malt backing to be a true DIPA, but as a card carrying hophead,I could care less. Would never guess its 9.5 ABV, Its been such a great year for hop brews in this part of the country, and this is a fitting way to end 2006,the year of the Midwest Hopbombs
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 oz bottle; thanks to sideshowe for the bonus bottle; batch 10127, so consumed 34 days from bottling; clear ms glowing orange with soapy thick head along the edges and nice faint foam throughout; sweet, piney nose wig oranges, white sugar and mango; wow, killer aroma; drinks sweet and sugary with pine and orange hops; seems so much better than I remember and certainly this is the freshest that I’ve had it; so, so good; milky smooth texture and combo of bitter and candy sweetness; soft mouthfeel and so easy to drink; bitterness comes through more towards the bottom of the bottle; nice to revisit and finally get what makes this such a great double IPA
Original Rating 4/10/08 (Score - 3.9): 12 oz. bottle - thanks andrew!! pours deep orange with slight haze; white head around the edges and scattered in the middle; minor lacing; aromas are of very sweet hops and almost like soap; texture is on the thin side and bitterness abounds; not much malt to balance things out and becomes a little sweet, but this is certainly a bitter bastard
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle, thanks to ucusty. Aroma of citrus and floral hops, very oily and resinous, with tons of sticky, sweet malt. Flavor huge, leafy, oily hops, huge, pastry malt. The malt does get just a touch overbearing on the finish as the glass goes down. That said, definitely floats my boat.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Red orange (about an 11 on the Lovibond scale? I happen to have one in front of me as I rate, ha) with a large off-white head that is slowly but mostly diminishing. Humid sweet and citric hop aroma - peaches and grapefruit - very pleasant, puckering and heavy. Highly bitter, moderately sweet malt flavor, loads of tingling pine resin and sticky sweet caramel malts. Cool, tongue-numbing finish. Bitterness hides the alcohol quite well, but you can still get a hint of alcoholic burn at the immediate end of the flavor profile. Superb double IPA.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: JAN 11, 2010 12oz bottle from a trade with mcbackus. pours a slightly hazy orange with a nice off white head. aromas are a perfect combonation of hops with malt backbone. flavours are perfect enjoyable hops with the malt backbone holding everything together and making this a most drinkable IPA ive ever had. this is the most perfect IPA i could ever imagine. thanks matt im glad i have 2 more.
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