 YourDarkLord (1800), Urbana, Illinois, USA
Oct 30, 2007 A foamy off-white head tops an orangy copper body. Again, there is the expected potency of Pacific Northwest hops but the caramel malt holds its own to provide a nice balance. The sweetness in the taste does its job without taming the sharp bitterness of the hops. Very nice.
ketchepillar (475), Viña del Mar, Chile
Oct 30, 2007 Decent hop aroma but very weak. Pretty good hop character. Quite citrousy. Medium dry, medium long finish. Good bitterness, but not at all overwhelming. Alcohol comes through a tiny bit in the aroma, and a little more in the taste.
pdxmickey (33), Spokane, Washington, USA
Oct 24, 2007 Bottle -
This is an interesting beer, with complex flavors an a unit bitter finish. I think I am going to have to get another bottle of this one to make a full evaluation.
tunneler (112), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Oct 18, 2007 A good but not great IPA with big up-front hop aroma that doesn’t quite carry over to the taste.
BeerBelcher (930), Columbus, Ohio, USA
Oct 18, 2007 Inversion IPA certainly satisfied my hop craving, and had some very interesting flavor notes. However, I found the bitterness to be rather rough - it didn’t have a lot of sweetness or other hop esters to balance the bitterness. Aside from the bitterness, I got a significant malt presence from the beer, and as it warmed I got some interesting flavor notes to include bubble gum, which I’ve not previously gotten from any beer. The beer poured from the bottle a rather bright orange with great sturdy head formation. Aroma was a lot of hop bitterness, with a minimal amount of fruit. Flavor is as I’ve described above. Mouthfeel is a bit rough, but not unpleasant.
It is a bit hard to rate this beer. I thought it a bit unique among the hundreds of IPAs out there (interesting mouthfeel and flavors), but I found it only slightly above average when it comes to how much I enjoyed it. A nice beer - and I’d recommend it probably more than my numeric ratings would indicate.
Prostman (1077), Pennsylvania, USA
Oct 17, 2007 This was an average IPA but I think I expected more. Not a bad brew though.
mcbackus (725), Merritt Island, Florida, USA
Oct 17, 2007 bottle from kenb: pours an orange cooper hue with a very small white head. aroma of caramel malt and sweet floral hops, with some citrus, also fresh fruit. flavour is an earthy hop bitterness with a real mice caramel malt that balances out the beer very well. finishes with some floral and citrus hop bitterness. very good and well balanced to me.
Theis (3617), Denmark
Oct 9, 2007 Bottle at "Stockholm Beer & Whiskey Festival 2007". Clear dark amber - light yellow head. Caramel, sweetness, dryness, malty, dark bread, grassy, piney, high hoppy. Dry finish.
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