3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Name: Rock Double IPA
Date: March 12, 2010
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: hazy orange, fine white head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, soft hops, touch of peppery spicyness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, plenty of hops, earthy and floral, well balanced bitterness, long bitter finish that continues to build
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Draught) Pours a clear orange body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of grass, grain, citrus, toffee, and caramel. Flavor of grapefruit, grass, herbs, and caramel malt with a dry finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft. Small white head atop hazy amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, pineapple, some grapefruit. Taste is moderately sweet, grapefruit, caramel, some pineapple. Sticky medium-full body.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
on tap-pours an off white head and amber color. Aroma is pine hops, some medium malt. Taste is raw pine/resin hops with bite, secondary medium malt, some alcohol. Somewhat slick mouth feel. Good carbonation.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft… Clear, dark golden ale with a small, fizzy, white head. The aroma is resiny and earthy – mainly pine. Full-bodied and almost chewy with moderate carbonation. Even at 78 degrees (sunny day; sat outside), the hop bitterness wrestles the pale and caramel malts to the ground and neutralizes them with a full nelson. In other words, the lupulin is the star of this show. The finish is lengthy and bittersweet, but the bitterness lingers on the back of my palate long after the sweetness has faded.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at Dunedin. Poured a clear copper color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate sour citrus and earthy aroma. Medium body with a slick texture and soft carbonation. Medium to heavy bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met and good surprise from this house.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A golden ale with a thin white head. A nice aroma of light floral hops, some funky points, citrus. In mouth, a rather chalky example of a regular IPA, with light British hops, some light astringence. A nice IPA but not double. On tap at brewpub, Dec. 12 2009.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft. Pours an orange body with a white head. Really hoppy citrus tones, passion fruit, pineapple very pleasing aromatic character. A drying hop resinous body with a fruity sweetness, and just enough warming to relax ya, really great stuff i thought.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft @ Brewpub: Unfiltered orange color with a light head and lacing. Nose of orange and grapefruit, mild citrus and dry hops. The flavor is citrus and grassy. Lots of hops and a mild caramel note in the finish. The hopse are good. Balanced.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap at Dunedin at RBWG 2010 bus tour. Pours a bright copper hazy body with a nice frothy lasting head. Aroma is mango tangerine, orange, citrus, pine notes, tropical, amarillo, and toasty malt sweetness. Flavor is caramel malts, toast, biscuit, citrus and tropical hops, juicy, resinous and pine, and I get a freezer burnt orange pop-sickle note in the end (thanks to willblake putting that one in my head!).
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