Firestone Walker Double Jack IPA

Brewed by Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Paso Robles, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Sample at CBC 2013. Hazy orange colour with a nice white head. Aroma and flavour of fruit, hops, malt and caramel.

Bottle. Copper with an off white head. Malt, pine and hop aromas. Malt and hop flavors. Goes down too easy.

Pour is orangish copper with a nice white head. Nose is is hoppy and nice citrus and floral and pine. Taste is sweet from the malt but has a nice hop bitter. Very nice example if this style. Mouthfeel is medium ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tasted from a 22oz. bottle. It poured a clear amber with a white head. Aroma is mostly hop with a bit of malt. Heavy hop with bitterness.

Had it out of a bomber, poured a rich clear a,ber hue, with a slight hint of malt aroma. The head is slight but creamy, and the taste is a bold hop malt assault.

Bottle to flute Tangerine, grapefruit, tropical fruit aromas with whisky notes. Clear light amber with a nice creamy long lasting white head with nice lacing. This beer us s reaming, 'drink me'. So I did, and its great...it's not often that the fruit aromas of an IIPA come through in the taste, but here is one. There's a nice malt character too and the requisite hoppiness. The mouthfeel is good too...creamy and oily with a late, but light alcohol burn. Great beer.

Bottle - Intense pine and grapefruit with some sweet malts in the background. Clear copper with a thick white head. Oily texture with a bit of alcohol burn at the end. Orange citrus and resin, nice malts to mellow and a silky smooth finish. Fruit begins to appear as it sits. Great IIPA.

Poured from a 22 oz. bottle into a tulip. Double Jack is golden in color, with a little bit of a tangerine orange tint. A sizable off-white head rolls up the side of the glass with the initial pour and leaves a nice web of sticky lace as the glass is consumed. What I notice about the aroma is how well the different components come together. Grapefruit citrus, resin, spicy pine, a bit of tropical fruit, and some light sweet malt notes come through. The emphasis is clearly on the hops, as it should be. The flavor is hop-forward as well with a subtle transition between the flavors. At first some honey and pale malt come through, but that is quickly washed away by the wave of hop flavors. Bitter grapefruit pith, orange rind, herbal notes, and spicy pine come through, with a bit of grassy bitterness and caramel sweetness right at the end. How this beer feels on my palate is one of its strengths. Not an overly full body, Double Jack is comfortable with a slightly fuller than medium body that lets the alcohol come through. A gentle yet firm creamy carbonation mostly cleanses the tongue between each sip but leaves some hop residue as a reminder of the bitterness. There is some residual hop oil and malt stickiness as well. It took only one sip to be able to tell this was a high quality DIPA, and I expect nothing less from Firestone Walker. Although I appreciate the nuanced bitterness and well-crafted nature of this beer, my true favorites are recklessly bold and do not impart much subtlety.

Bottle. Pours golden and clear with a full white head. The aroma is pure hop goodness, resinous and floral. Flavor with moderate to heavy bitterness and dominated by hop with a faint maltiness. Dry with no little to no sweetness. A fantastic DIPA.

22oz bottled 2/2013. Pours a pale orange. Big citrus hop aroma, with a big citrus taste. Yummy!