3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Sampled on New Years Eve 2012. Label claims 11 percent. Clear amber pour with fishegg clearish head. Very old musty hop aroma and lots of caramel malt. Flavor has the pale and caramel malts with old citrusy hops. Feels old and flat on the palate, but not that exciting. Does hide the abv very well, but pretty blah otherwise.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nice, hoppy, and smooth double IPA. Good malt balance and tangy sourness from the hops.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 30 cl from erzbierschof.ch. Red amber with small foam, fine crackling. Aromas of hop grapefruit, malt, herb and note of dog rose bush. Taste rather soft. Pale Ale without much flavor. Bitterness is present but less aggressive than expected. Dry mouth, acidulity, floral, a little astringent. Good lenght on citrus, herbs, pine.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle.
Amber with a white head. Is this really a DIPA? A simple question, where were the hops? Sweet with a lot of caramel and malt. Drinkable but its not a DIPA according to me.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Sample from a bottle at PIB. Pours clear orange with a thin cream lacing. Aroma of heaps of caramel, no sign of hops. Flavour of dark roasted caramel malts, some light bitterness. Not good. Doesn’t display enough IIPA characteristics to bother with again.
1.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Sampled from bottle at PIB (bottle reads 11%, not 9% - hopefully this is the right place to put the rating), pours dark orangey amber with a small beige head. Aroma of heaps of caramel, barely anything else, even hops. This is a mess of a beer - how is this an IPA? Absurdly sweet, cloying in every sense, with a load of caramel, no hops, with a nastily sweet finish. Terrible.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampled on draft at house of 1000 beers this beer poured a dark orange0-caramel color with a large foamy orange-beige head that lingered and left great lacing. The aroma was sweet table sugar, grapefruit and faint pine. The flavor was sweet and tangy with notes of table sugar, pineapple, grapefruit and lemon. The finish was long, tangy and had lingering pine and fruit cocktail Full bodied. Nice.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from bierkoning, thank you. Copper color with thin white head. Aroma of, lemon, grapefruit, pine. Taste, grapefruit, honey, pine, lemon. Nice bitter finish. Excellent.
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