3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Sample at BrewDog Tasting at BeerTemple, tap. Clear light amber colour, off white head. Aroma of sweet malts, caramel, fruity with mango, pineapple, grapefruit, hop, pine. Flavour is sweet, malty, toffee, fruity with grapefruit, pineapple, oranges, very bitter piny hoppy finish. Medium bodied. Really good stuff.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Strong, raisin dried fruit aromas. Golden color. Bold flavors on the palate. Strong hops. A touch of sweetness on the palate. Finish lasts for days.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750ml: Pours a cloudy ruby/orange with a large fluffy off-white head, earthy hops mixed with oranges in the aroma, starts and ends bitter with a long orange aftertaste. Full bodied, slick mouthfeel, playful carbonation. A nice break from American DIPAs.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Light brown, and clear. Has an off-white head, lasting. Heavy and good aroma, hoppy, rubber, glue, sulfur, and nice malty sweetness. Flavor is heavy to harsh bitter, strong. More hoppiness. Texture is heavy dry, moderate creamy. Moderate carbonation.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
sweet nice hoppy,golden, clear, white foam, medium bitterness, salty, medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, bitter, long finish, nice beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
0,3l bottle, very bitter malt aroma, golden, clear, rocky head, frothy, white foam, very bitter, medium sweetness, full body, slick feel, soft carbonation, bitter, bitter, bitter, bitter, bitter, long finish, bitter, bitter, bitter, bitter, very bitter IPA 150 IBU+ but too much alcohol for me
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Amber body with a nice white head. Aroma of hops and citrus. Medium bodied, nice carbonation. Big massive taste of bitter hops. Also had nice citrus notes and spices. Bitter finish that lasted forever and had a nice alcoholic kick. Tasty and refreshing. Fantastic!!
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Oh, BrewDog. I want to like your beers, but you aren’t making it easy. This one is just too malty with a huge turpentine kick standing in for more delicate hop notes. The aroma seemed pretty good when I uncapped the bottle, but, once the beer hit the glass, things went downhill. The aroma is paint thinner, pine resin and too much caramel malt. The beer looks nice enough, but that’s not much of an accomplishment, to be honest. The flavor is over-sweet with sticky malt sugars and the hops lack complexity. This beer needs a water chaser just to get the film off my teeth. I’m not trying to say its awful, but it’s absolutely not how I like my DIPAs. Pine resin lingers in the aftertaste, which would be nice but the cloying caramel flavor kills it. Booze, turpentine hops and sticky malt is a poor combination. I guess I’ll stick to the Paradox series.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
This poured a clear orange with a generous two fingers of foam. Aroma has some strong citrus and sweet malts. The taste up front has a good bit of citrus but even more spice. The aftertaste becomes rather sweet and fruity, with almost a hint of dark fruit. Alcohol also comes through a bit as well, though overall quite well hidden. A very thoroughly enjoyable double ipa.
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
330 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Batch 62, ABV is 9.2%. Orange colour, big to moderate off-white head. Very nice aroma of fruity (mainly citrussy) and piney American hops. Also notes of crystal or caramel malts. The flavour has loads of piney hops throughout, with a substantial bitterness, on a fairly sweet malty background. Hints of tomcat. Not "well balanced", but what do you expect from an imperial IPA?
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