4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Rich and intense - this is one delicious brew! Loads of ruby red grapefruit scents and flavors from beginning to end on this brew. This flavorful beverage starts off with a well-balanced set of maltiness and hoppiness and then settles down to a dry, slightly hoppy/bitter finish with a long-lasting aftertaste of grapefruit, roasted pine nuts and just a slight hint of warm caramel. My thanks to Larry for this exceptional gift!! Some oysters and mussels would pair up wonderfully with this brew!!
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
This beer was excellent. It was 10% ABV but suprisingly light. The hop aromas and flavors dominated while the malt body made a cameo performance. I went to the bottle shop, but unsurpisingly, they didn’t have any. Pick this up if you can find it.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Amber pour with a medium, frothy beige head. Strong resinous hops, pine and citrus notes in the aroma. Juicy wet hops, pine resins, citrus oils, grapefruit pulp, caramel, sweet malt and spicy and herbal hops round out the flavor profile on this. Body is medium-full with a thick, oily feel and a medium, bubbly carbonation. Ends with more pine resins, grapefruit, herbal hops, soft spicy hops, floral notes, caramel and sweet malt.
4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle. Pours golden with a medium, white head. Aroma/flavor of pine and grapefruit hops. Nicely bitter with a nice malt balance. A great DIPA.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
A- beautiful looking brew! Pours a copper amber with good clarity. A finger of off white head crowns this glorious liquid. Decent head retention with very good sticky lacing.
S- starts off with pungent hop resin with notes of pine sap and hemp. Big juicy grapefruit characteristics intertwine with a touch of tropical fruit mango. Finishes with the faintest hint of malt as it drowns in the massive hop aromas.
T- juicy yellow grapefruit and pungent pine hop flavor relentlesly explode on the palate. Softer hop notes of tropical fruit play off the initial flavors with a lasting resiny bit towards the end. Solid crunchy bitterness blends with a balancing malt backbone with a slight caramel note. Finishes dry with a lingering hop flavor and a warming alchohol characteristic.
MF- smooth creamy coating mouthfeel with a medium body. Great fine carbonation that hightens the creamy aspect.
D- very good drinkability. The complexity of hop flavor keeps one coming back for sip after sip.
Overall an outstanding DIPA. Bravo Bell’s!
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
On tap at Capones during the Founders/CBS bottle giveaway event last week. Poured a translucent golden orange with small white head. Lacing was impressive leaving numerous soapy rings behind. Aromas of pine, peach, mango, ripe grapefruit, and a little tangerine if you really bury your nose into your glass. Taste was most of the same with strong piney citrus flavors dominating. Nice and bitter on the palate for this high alcohol IPA. This beer was amazing and might be better then Hopslam in my opinion. Hopslam is a little easier to drink and more flavored with honey and malt, but this gem was pure citrus and resiny hops.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
nice amber color good foam, nose is resinous and almost chewy. flavor is sweet malts and huge hops. so fantastic. could drink this IIPA all night
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Amber color from bottle. Very nice med, head. Flover full, nice fizz. Semisweet with a bit. Great beer.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle. Pours clear amber with1 finger head. This may not be uber fresh - i think the release was a few mos ago.. Piney and bitter with a hint of sweetness in the finsh. A bit of bready malt too. Excellent. Will seek out next year.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
I poured a 12 oz bottle into a snifter. This poured yellowish orange, raised a one-finger head, and positively exuded a bitter, grassy hop aroma. Lacing proved ample as I drank it down slowly to savor each deliciously bitter sip. This is slightly sweeter than Stone Ruination ipa, but otherwise is as bitter as good beer can be, with usual ipa flavors of citrus giving way to orange rind and lemon zest. Another fine beer from Bells.
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