4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Woodshed 2.0. Growler share courtesy of dak. It pours with a deep gold body with copper hues and supporting a white head of foam. The aroma offers up big yummy rich grapefruit, tangelo and mango like fruity hoppiness as well as some malt sweetened onions and shallot danky earthy goodness. The taste is smooth and rich with a mix of tangerine and mango hop flavor notes that are sweetened a tad by maltiness and then running into both resiny and dank like shallot and onion earthy hop goodness. Damn. This is big and rich and smooth and yummy but for the claim of a IIIPA it is a little tame. Damn good nonetheless.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Growler pour from woodshed 2.0. Bright gold pour. Flavors are big and bold, spicy hops, sweet and citrusy goodness. Both bitter, juicy and sweet. ABV is hidden oh too well. Wow.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Growler via dak @ Woodshed 2.0! Extremely bright citrus, evergreen, and resinous hops rise from the 24 karat body. Pungent, dank, herbaceous, incredibly fragrant, and even floral. This one rolls your eyes back, peels the enamel off of your teeth, and burns off taste buds...incredible! One of the better IIIPA’s I’ve had...and at 12%, the ABV isn’t at all distracting. Delicious!
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap at Bailey’s Taproom. Pours a hazy canary yellow with thick white head. Aroma is a punch of grapefruit, passionfruit, pine, and lemon rind. Flavor is massively full of floral, perfume, fruity hops. Not a sharp bite but rather just a burst of flavors. Loads of perfume! Thick, clean mouthfeel. I’m swallowing wonderful hoppy air. I actually preferred this to the Pliny the Elder on tap I’d had 10 minutes prior, and I love Pliny. This was awesome!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap at Apex, pours a cloudy golden orange with a small beige head. Aroma explodes with herbal hops, a little marijuana and some delicate toasted malt somewhere in the background. Flavour destroys the palate with hempy, pot-like hops--super pungent and palate coating--, there’s some biscuity malt to provide support but not much in the flavour. The 12% is not apparent at all. Delicious palate destroyer.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap at a barley wine fest. Ok. Good call. Golden pour nice super creamy head and lace. Nose of big fruity citrus and dank tropical fruits pale maly and residual sugar. Flavors of citrus and tropical notes pale malts some sweetness underneath huge hops. Chewy lingering bitterness with alcohol heat. Nice triple ipa. Solid.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft @ 13th Bistro Double IPA Festival, Hayward, CA. Pours a golden color with a white head. has a fruity malty piney grapefruit aroma with some bready caramel hints. Fruity malty hoppy bitter piney slightly boozy flavor. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy bitter grapefruit finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Floral and piney, smells pretty hot. The flavors follow, a little thin almost watery and for sure boozy but over all not bad. Younger smashes ; )
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft at apex. Slightly hazed orange tinted straw with minimal white head, yet even. Super tropical forward, mostly pineapple and mango purée with candied pine undertones. No real malt aroma to speak of, but pretty sure that’s the point here. Sweet and in your face hops. Peach, mango, pineapple, papaya...all tropical...in the front into mid palate. Pretty swee, but finishes with enough dry peppery malt and hop bittering to lead you back for more. The 12% is pretty well hidden. This is inline with ipa styles of the brewery and I like it, but maybe a little too sweet and fruity for me. Non the less, pty tards should seek it out.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: FEB 16, 2013 8 oz at Apex.A: Orange tinted yellow with thin fluffy head. Drifting bubbles. Aced it.N: Loads of pineapple and grapefruit. Citrus has a nice malt base. Very little pine or earth, and I?m OK with that. Clementine, mango, passionfruit.T: Intensely sweet with tons of the aforementioned grapefruit and pineapple. Biscuit and pine in small doses. Lots of candied fruits and sugar. Bit of a letdown, but still good.A: Heavy and sticky. Noticeable alcohol.O: A really good TIPA, but not necessarily the top tier. Needs more earthy balance, because it?s currently a bit too much.
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