 jsh12bama (177), Alabama, USA
Mar 2, 2008
Can shared with jimbowood. Pours orange/amber with thick off white head. Huge hop aroma of pines and grapefruit. Big hop bite. Nice balance in this beer. What a double IIPA is supposed to be.
MiP (4843), Flensburg, Germany
Apr 19, 2008 Can at ZBF08. Powerful hop aroma, also very malty... Bonbon and caramel. Clear chestnut colour. Very small tan head. Very hoppy flavour, slightly biting hoppiness. Sharp grass finish. Very sweet but balanced well by the hops.
fonefan (4062), Ulfborg, Denmark
Apr 2, 2008 Can [Thanks to Phil_L] @ <a href=http://ratebeer.com/events-detail.asp?eventID=6803 target=_new> Zythos Bier Festival 2008, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Unclear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, pine, grape - orange. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. (020308)
Theis (1922), Frederiksberg, Denmark
Mar 23, 2008 Can at ZBF 2008 - thanks to ???. Clear dark amber - light yellow head. Lots of bread, high malty, high hoppy, sweetness, spicy, honey, flowery, grassy, piney, peppery. Alcoholic finish. OK - but a bit unbalanced !!
JorisPPattyn (4248), Antwerpen, Belgium
Mar 19, 2008 Huge, dense & fine yellow head over clear red-chestnut beer. Fine lace. Toiletsoap, C-hops, lytchee, ripe mango and pineresin. Superb inviting nose that makes one want to bite in the glass... Very bitter, orange- or grapefruitrind-like, also vegetable bitter, with a lot of C-hop flavour, near overpowering the not unimportant amount of malts, including caramel malt. Slick, slightly sticky-oily, resinous, very well-bodied, near chewy. A hard, somewhat unidimensional IIPA, but all in all a very good Westcoaster. Thank you very much, Rodger D.!
Mes_and_Sim (3967), London, Greater London, England
Mar 10, 2008 A Mes rate: Unlabelled can during Zythos thanks to Phil_L.
Stunningly good looking amber with a good brown / white head. Huge resinous alcoholic hops carried expertly well by some barley and really good malt. Petrol and diesel character in the mouth let it down a little. The hops are lovely but I can’t help but feel that they are being held back. Lovely bitterness on the finish but it is washed away to soon by some stinging alcohol. Great beer but just a little over the top.
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