3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cloudy light orange colour with a small white head. Hoopy fruity aroma with notes of grape and some malty sweetness. Hoppy, peach fruity flavor along a light malty sweetness. Dry finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
28th June 2008. Hoppy beer with honey. Nice grapefruity hops - smooth with a semi bitter finish. The bitterness is nicely offset by the well integrated honey. A very nice refreshing hoppy beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 355ml
Appearance: Clear , bright gold-amber ale. Rocky, fragmented head on top.
Nose :Fresh west hop aroma, citrus with malt base , fresh clean in its character. Good straightforward hop aroma. 7+
Flavor/Palate : Full bodied , one dimensional hop feel. Leaf-e wet in character. Golden clean malts are present but the they are slammed by hops.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle (batch 8907, Jan 6 bottling).
Head is initially small, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing.
Body is medium amber, bottle conditioned.
Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted grain, caramel), moderately hoppy (resin, apricot, grapefruit, flowers), with light notes of sugar, tangerine, cantaloupe, and alcohol.
Flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter.
Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately to heavily bitter.
Medium to full body, watery/velvety texture, lively carbonation, moderately alcoholic.
Nice for what it is...some attractive estery qualities underneath the hops, but they’re kind of faint...the raw resinous hop smell is the most dominant aspect here. A bit abrasive in the mouth, although admittedly this is not trying to be elegant or classy. Overall very good, but there are more complex and enjoyable examples.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Thanks to my SS for this one. Pours a hazy light gold and a thin white head- slight lacing as well. Aroma is very hoppy- mostly cent and amarillo- citrusy, light pine and tropical fruits- resinous. Nice hoppy flavor, decent malt backbone, but you can notice the alcohol come through esp on warming- fruity, and solvent-like. Finishes relatively bitter and somewhat sticky= not as dry as some west coast expamples. Pretty good DIPA, but the aroma gets your hopes too high.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle@Home. Strong but not overwhelming floral, fruity and grassy aroma. Golden/amber color, beige firm head, good lace. Pretty sweet, very bitter, fruity, certainly grassy and oak twigs. Full with dry finish. Flavourful yet excellent balance.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Lightly hazed golden color with a tall heavy cream colored head. Rings of lace as it is imbibed. Ruby red grapefruit with some mild herbs and flowers coupled with light fruit and light malt. You like hops, you should not find may faults with this scent. Light fleshy aroma that throws things off for me. Quite a bit of fruit and flowers in this one. The last of pack here and I am starting to catch a lot of fruit an flower. Perhaps a touch too much, but still I am attracted. Lots of fruit with berries, pears, apples and other light fruit. Still a big hops presence. For me the flavors hops combine with the sweetness and create a brew that is slightly too sweet. This is a sweet brew that like Yukon Jack is way too good to think that it could be dangerous. I enjoy this a lot, and a touch more bittering balance would be welcome, but still more than enjoyable.
4.4 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Okay after already drinking two sixers of this beer I will finally rate it, snakeboy from Drakes be damned...Served in my GI IPA tulip: The pours is a clean golden hue with a fading frothy head and okay lace. The aroma is pure bless with lots of tropic and citric fruit esters, some pine and pepper, light bready malts, and a note of alcohol snap.
The flavor profile backs up the nose with a MOSTLY BALANCED fruity and bitter taste and some soft grainy malts. The finish is astrengent and metallic but works within the framework of the beer. Truly a straight forward yet not remotely boring big hoppy beer. The mouth feel matches the flavor components exactly, everything is where it should be.
Get ya some right now. It is all you should ever want in a IIPA. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, I DIG IT, IT ROCKS!!! Top 50 worthy IMO.
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