Dicks Bottleworks IPA

Brewed by Dicks Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Centralia, Washington USA

22oz bottle, courtesy of 5000. Thanks, André! Pours a murky, dull orange-amber color; medium tan head with patchy lacing. Solid amounts of zesty citrus and grapefruit bitterness in the aroma; caramel underneath. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: lively carbonation; lots of chewy bitterness (grapefruit, citrus, some earthiness) with a dense, sweet malt core; slightly astringent and pretty chewy, but a tasty enough double IPA. Lots of lingering hop bitterness in the finish: citrus rind, sugar, and caramel sweetness.

Pours dark amber with a great cloudy head. Funky aroma, fruity, very forward hops and burnt toffee. Taste is very sweet with lingering bitterness on the tongue. Complex.

Bottle 650ml
Appearance: Murky light brown with above average thick , fine creamy head 3+
Nose : Spiced hop aroma , creamy – mineral straight nose.
Flavor/Palate : Strong all out hop profile buried underneath mineral fruity accents. Long bitter finish.

22oz bottle from bottletrek.com Not very impressed by this IPA. Nose was a little week.....some grapefruit and pine, with some malt on the backdrop. Looked good, a burnt orange amber with a frothy off white head, great lacing. Finish was a little more on the malty side. This was a drinkable beer, didn’t do much else for me.

Nov. 2007 - Thanks to eaglefan538 for sharing. Apple juice brown color with decent frothy head. Aroma and flavor of pine and grapefruit. The mouthfeel was very sharp, dry and carbonated. Decent brew.

Pour is deep hazed orangey amber with a thin white head...smell s sweet and biscuity with strong grapefruit notes...taste is highly sweet up front with a strong bitterness building fast but fading equally fast in the quick finish...

Very good PNW IPA! It has the dark roasted maltiness that accompanies any good IPA from the NW, it has the good hoppiness of a beer brewed near the source of the cones, and it has the lingering bitterness that a good IPA should have. The aroma to this one is scant, but on first taste the insane hop bitterness hits your tongue, and you almost have to pucker up. The yeast is pretty subdued in this one, but that piney resin saturates your tongue for a good IPA.

In short: A refreshing yet very tasty IIPA with grapefruit/pine-tree hopping. Very good.
How: Bottle 22oz from after4ever. Thanks a lot Tom.
The look: Cloudy dark golden body with a small white head
In long: Chewy body with nice rich caramel. Something doughy about the yeast, malts or both. Hops are half grapefruit half pine-tree. Bitterness is sharp but rather short. Carbonation is appropriately medium. The beer has a pleasant tartness that immensely increases drinkability. Nothing original but man would I ever like to drink 6 bombers in a row of that very effective and refreshing IIPA. Unfortunately for me I don’t have 6 bombers of that beer. Fortunately for my surrounding I don’t have 6 bombers of that beer.