Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree IPA

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Marshall, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Pours a deep golden color. Aroma is of hops, grapefruit, orange peels, caramel, and a light malt. Flavor has a nice heavier palate, with a little booziness but still very smooth for a higher ABV beer. I can pick up some hops (tastes like centennials), caramel, figs, malts, and leaves. Has a nice citrus hop finish. Good stuff.

Lemon/citrus aroma. Hoppy citrus flavor. Hops work with it...not too hoppy. Good beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

12oz bottle poured into Sam Adams pint glass. Pour a reddish gold color with a white half finger head with good retention. Has nice sweet floral nose with hint of candy smell. Has an earthy, grassy taste with some sweetness and hop bitterness and the end. Nice balance of malts and hops. 98 IBU’s and 13.6% abv are remarkably hidden. This does not come across as a hop bomb or some over the top high ABV beer. This is remarkable smooth and refreshing. Has a nice medium body with medium carbonation. This in unlike any DIPA I’ve ever had. This is an amazing beer and a must have for any fan of IPAs.

Poured from bottle to pint glass: Pours a cloudy burnt orange with a half-finger cap of off white head. Good lacing. The alcohol that I was expecting from the nose is completely engulfed by hops - massive citrus, after a few good snorts I get a bit of sour cherries. This is clearly a beer to be reckoned with. Slight sweet bread too. The taste doesn’t do quite as good a job with masking the booze burn. All the hoppy goodness is still present and delicious, but that 13.6% is just too damn big to tame. This is certainly a sipper. Overall, I love the concept behind this beer. A true double IPA - double everything and put it in a bottle. It gets some serious points from me for that but there is still room to master said concept. This is something that I’d like to see more brewers tackle.

Pours a clear amber with a medium tan head. Aroma has some caramel and bready malt notes and earthy, spicy hop notes...just a bit of grapefruit. Flavor follow suit with the aroma but is slightly boozy too...very earthy and dry with malty, fruity notes. Mouthfeel is medium/full with a fruity/earthy bitter finish that warms.

Misty, dark gold color. Nice, complex hoppy taste, yet very smooth. Lively on the palate. Knew it was high ABV, but it didn’t hit me until half way through the next beer.

Very hazy deep orange color with a tall bubbly, frothy white head that lasts for a bit. Aroma has a very strong fresh hop pellet nose to it with a strong grapefruit, orange and a lesser pine presence. Flavor overall is a pretty tame. A nice tangerine, grapefruit combo with some light bitterness at the end, mild alcohol and an overall sweet malt finish. Body is modest with some alcohol heat. Overall a good brew.

S: semi-clear, honey color, white head A: not a lot on the nose, dry, a touch of sweetness T: smooth balance, sweet up front, dry-bitter back end, even balance O: I expected more hops for 98 IBUs, but has great balance, it's still a great, IPA ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Date: February 28, 2012 Mode: Bottle Source: Discount Description: Semi-opaque orangish brown pour with nice head and lacing. Aroma jumped out of the bottle when I opened it and was hoppy, citrus, some pine, malty/caramel. Taste was consistent with aroma and slight dry bitter and alcohol finish.

12oz bottle fresh. Not much on the nose, but the flavor is great. No alcohol burn at all. No idea it is as high as it is. I like this a lot, but there are many less expensive DIPA’s out there.