Diamond Bear Two Term Double IPA

Brewed by Diamond Bear Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Little Rock, Arkansas USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Very hazy copper orange pour. Lots of sediment. Medium fluffy white head with good lacing. Aroma is very hoppy. Mostly earthy and spicy characteristics. Malty sweetness comes through. Backdrop of citrus and pine. A little boozy. Flavor is very similar. Very earthy dank hops. Some spiciness. Caramel sweetness comes through a bit as well. Not a big fan of hop varieties. ---Rated via iPhone

Sampled at GABF. Pours a clear gold with some spitty head. Nose is OK, pine, honey, citrus, earthy. Flavor is OK too, sweet, malty, oranges. Medium bodied, orangey finish. A little bland, needed more citrus pop.

Clear orange in color, aroma is minimal hops.... Flavor is more malty than hoppy, hard to call this a pale ale much less a DIPA... Mostly watery and sweet malts, minimal hops on the finish... Shockingly disappointing, but I am from the West Coast....

Sampled at GABF 2011. Pours an amberish orang with a small white head. Aroma has a lot of citrus and floral notes. Unfortunately, the flavor is cardboard and mild hops. Kind of flabby on the tongue. Oxidized for sure. Hard to put even my total 1 oz. pour back. This is sad because the aroma hinted at great things for this beer. I will re-rated if I get a better sample of this beer. This was very cool to try, though.

Taste at the brewery. Ok, so this is a heavyhanded attempt compared to other double IPAs I’ve had, not very graceful. Dark yellow, clear, laces pretty well. All I taste are pine needles, unfortunately. No alcoholic taste, at least. It needs something else. Not a session beer.

We had this beer at the 2013 Tops of the Hops in Biloxi, MS. Way too hoppy for us.

From the bottle at SAVOR 2011. Pours a clear golden color with an average white head. A slight amount of lacing as it goes down before setting into a thin collar. The nose was really grainy with some slight citrus and floral hops in the background. Similarly, the taste was just overrun with grainy malt and bordered on being tannic. Body was medium and dry with some slight bitterness in the finish. I wasn’t a big fan. Serving type: bottle

The last two guys to rate this on here are some of my best friends, and top beer nerds, but It’s like were drinking a different beer. Maybe because it’s a winter seasonal and I’m drinking it on July... Pours like your average corporate beer, with perhaps a little more color and lacing. It doesn’t smell good or bad, there’s almost no aroma at all. Palate is flat as well, I didn’t get much hops, a little sugar maybe, but it basically tastes like a flat english beer to me. I don’t like flat english beer. Finishes clean, so there’s that, but that’s about it.

Tap. Golden with one finger head. Soapy and bitter. Light hops. I can’t believe someone recommended this to me. This is awful. Are all beers in AR complete shit?