Bristol Edge City Double IPA

Thanks to DavidP for sharing this one. Pours a clear amber color, no head. Aroma of a multitude of hops, citrusy and piney, alcohol too. Flavor is more hops, really a plethora of hops.

Poured from a bomber shared via Dave from his Secret Santa. This one pours to a thin white head atop a copper color. The beer has a decent lacing to it. The aroma is hoppy but hard to describe. I get citrus, grass, and flowers, strawberries. Sweet caramel malts. The flavor is hoppy but also hard to describe. I think when you have 29 different hops, it’s hard to get any distinct types of hops out of it. I do get a ton of amarillo hops in the flavor. Citrus. Creamy, medium bodied, light bitterness.

Bomber. Clear brown-amber body. Deep caramel malt, not too much bitterness in the aroma. The flavor brings out more hop flavor - lime, orange and ibtter grape skin. Nicely balanced flavor but not terribly interesting.

22oz bottle, purchased from Liquor Max awhile back. Slight head, little lace, dark amber, almost brown. Aroma of piney hops and juicy malt...lots of malt, straight up west-coast barley wine aroma. Kinda thin, without much bitterness...shows off the malt, but it isn’t bright, they muddy it with a zillion hop varieties so that nothing but some resins stands out. Is it just me, or have a lot of brewers just put the DIPA lable on barley wines? I don’t see how this resembles an IPA. That in itself wouldn’t be bad, if the beer had more merit. Too much of a good thing? That would be this beer. And to slap me with 11%ABV while I’m fighting through it! That is just rude. I’ll take off a point for its ridiculous strength too! I mean, I do love hops! But this isn’t my lucky day as I had to strap on the waders to much through this.

Aroma of rich dark musky sweet malt and hops, with dried apricot notes. Dark amber, orange, brown appearance with a healthy orange tinted head. The first flavor that comes through is a sweat dried peach/apricot with a hoppy background. Medium carbonation and a sticky, full palate. I know the description says it uses twenty-nine different varieties of hops, but the main flavor here is sweet malt with a mediocre hop backbone and could be more appropriately balance for a double IPA. Overall, an average DIPA.

Glowing amber with thick head which diminishes rapidly. Sweet hop aroma, fruity, slight vinous, perfumy. Medium body. Malty barley wine like flavors. Nice hop/malt balance with fruitiness. Alcohol well hiden. Not bad.

bottle-pours a dark orange hue with a small white head. citrus, caramel aroma that was pretty alcoholic. mostly sweet citrus. flavors of citrus, surupy malts, pinneapple and mangos come to mind. no pineyness and not very dry in the finish. Big alcohol bite in the finish. too sweet-almost a barleywine. Not bad, but needs to tone down the surupy palate and pump up some bitter/piney hops.

Very sweet aroma - brown sugar, mandarin orange and pear. Light and initially very crisp, hoppy and full of lemon. Delic Dry finish. Somewhat muddled, extreme malt/hop blend was a lot like a certain west coast barleywine.