4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Thick, syrupy pour with a pillowy white head. Nice pine resin aroma. Flavors of juicy grapefruit, pine and earth, semi sweet with the perfect bitter balance. One of the best 2IPA’s I’ve had.
4.6 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle from the Beer Yard. Pours turbid dark straw with floaties. Aroma is huge tropical fruit, resiny hops, mango, black pepper, tangerine, honeydew, peach, guava. The flavor is tropical fruity, very hoppy, balanced well by caramel malt, with the mango, tangerine, honeydew, even watermelon hints, plus pineapple and papaya. Very complex aroma and flavor. Toward the finish, it gets a bit dry and a tad astringent. Take 2 parts Stone 10th, add 1part Weyerbacher 11, a dash of Dreadnaught, and a syringe full of Hop Whompus, and you have this beer. Just marvelous!
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle from JCapriotti. Thanks! Pours a decent amber with dense shading and a slight head. Little lacing to speak of in the glass. Aroma is an assault of grapefruit, pine, and orange; hints of peach and strawberry as well, but they never become the focus of your olfactory center. Woah! THIS is what an IPA should be: a biting, unrepentive, ruthless and downright brutal slam of grapefruit, pine, orange, and floral hops on the tongue. This beer kicks your butt AND steals your lunch money AND impregnates your girlfriend. Not for the faint of heart, but definitely for gluttons of punishment.
4.6 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours a nice frothy, off-white, head that fully disappears. Aroms is heavy hops with big grapefruit and orange . There’s also a hint of vanilla and , of course honey. Doesn’t have the bit that manny douple IPAs seem to have.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: JAN 24, 2009 12 oz. bottle at Flat Rock Saloon. Pours gold with thick head that surprisingly quickly disappeared. Pungent citrusy nose with pine. Flavor is a blast of citrus with a sharp grapefruit bite and extremely bitter finish.
4.6 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: FEB 1, 2008 This stuff smells like a pine forest! At 14 bones for a sixer, I was worried, but at 9.5 ABV, you would never know it. I tasted no alcohol . This is king of the DIPAS. tons of hops! you can get wrecked on about two and half hoppy slammers so seems good! I should clarify that i would certinaly buy this beer more if I wasnt so cheap, ah hell, im going to go buy some more right now!
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
On cask at Vintage Estate. First, great celebration for the tapping of the cask last night (05/28/10)! Orange pour with a tight, white head in a snifter. Thick, resinous hop aroma with some sweet caramel undertones. Great balance in the mouth with the hops playing off some tangerine and sweet malt. Strong bitter finish keeps it clean (and dangerously drinkable). Outstanding all around beer, will need to try it in bottle.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pour is brownish gold with a three finger white foam. Smell is lemon, pine, honey. The taste is so good like honey kissed hops in a liquid format. Deceptively easy to drink at 10%
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