4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle, pours syrupy honey gold with a super dense fluffy head, the most intense and enjoyable aroma of any beer I’ve had: super rich with honeyed grapefruit and pure Cascade hop, flavor is simultaneously intense and balanced, with huge notes of grapefruit and honey with huge bitter wallop on finish, all supported by a sturdy caramel malt backbone, finish is a perfect warming bitter fade, an astounding brew
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
12oz. poured into my Piraat tulip, three finger off-white head. Smell is like fresh hop cones, pungent grapefruit & pineapple, it smells...clean. Moderate slick body, but not over oily. The taste is Hops! fresh pineapple and grapefruit, clean malts. It has a bitter dry finsh, it is the most drinkable Double IPA I’ve yet tasted, the Honey must give it the Clean taste I keep thinking and writing about..
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
If you went out and picked fresh hops, took them home, and put them in your juice machine like Jack Lalaine, you wouldn’t get a better hop delivery system. It’s like you pour a bottle and you’ve created a citrus-y pine forest microclimate. The Kansas City metro got 35 cases this year, and I only got one (case). Sorry to everyone else who didn’t get one... I’ll be camped outside the store next year waiting for the shipment.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Batch 10101 (Jan. 4th, 2011) Thanks to my nephew Nic! This is not easy, but have to say this is the best beer I’ve enjoyed the past three years. It gets my highest rating to date (surpassing Orval and FFF’s Alpha King). Aroma? You bet - simply awesome. The taste is second to none, with the good bitter finish. THAT is what puts this beer over the top - so many IPAs/DIPAs may lean to the sweet side - not this brew. Perfection. A classic beer that I am so glad to have two bottles of. So wonderful I am saving the 2nd for tomorrow night - PROST!
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
UPDATED: FEB 8, 2009 Just bought this one at Binnys Naperville. I’m definitely a hophead and this one blows me away. Pours a rich orange color with a medium head that quickly fades away. This one leave a nice lacing on the glass. Aromas of citrus ( mandarin orange...tangerine) Has a taste of orange, peach and bittering, piney hops. Very balanced and leaves you wanting more. I gotta say...I like this more than the 3F Dreadnaught!!! I LOVE THIS BEER!!!
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Delicious well balanced India Pale Ale with an incredible nose. Smells like a canabis patch in the middle of a pine forest.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
"Whoa nelly...the new king of the hop? incredible incredible beer all around. superb aroma of floral and citrus hops, a touch of sweet clover honey in both the aroma and flavor, which also happens to perfectly balance the intense hop flavor and bitterness. what an incredible beer. one of the best i’ve ever had!!!"
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 20/20
This is an absolute dream beer !! I wish we could get more IPA’s made like this. The aroma is a hop lover’s paradise with an amazing fruit bouquet shining through. The potency of this beer is well hidden behind all the hop goodness and citrus flavors. Not much head present in either draft or bottle I’ve noticed, but the flavor and smell take up this slack. Please put this on year round Larry !!
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