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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Bottle; Pour is clear copper colored ; frothy whitish head that retains well - mild lacing in this snifter. This brew has a fantastic balance of maltiness and floral hops on the nose. Juicy grapefruit rinds, caramel malts, a slight earth feel ; this brew is sweet, bitter, floral, and delicious. Really. Fantastic brew.

Moderately strong aroma of grapefruit peel and tangerine peel. Clear amber, medium quickly dissipating head. Exquisite amount of hops for the amount of body and sweetness. Mango and tangerine peel flavor. Grapefruit peel toward the end, with a greater malt presence. Medium body, but not hot. Superbly well balanced and easy to drink.

On tap at 38 Degrees. Pours dark gold with a one finger off white head. The nose is ripe mango and orange peel. The taste is ripe citrus, toffee and grapefruit. A tad sweet but very nice.

Pours orangey gold with a nice frothy tan head. Malty aroma with a variety of spices and herbal hops. Sweet malt flavor with sugary bread that washes into a big herbal hop blast. Nice fruitiness but the bitterness is too modest for me. Slightly astringent, full bodied, a tad boozy.

Bomber from Vas Foremost. Pours a crystal clear gold with fluffy white head. Nose is robust hops. Bitter grapefruit, orange blossom and a bit of catty notes dominate. Some sweet malt in the background. On taste, quite bitter, but also quite boozy. Full hop character, tons of citrus, hint of onion on the finish. Full malt body that just supports. Pretty damn fine IIPA.

Crystal clear light copper color with a thin white head. Slightly resinous, grassy hop aroma. Excellent balance of malt and hops. Unlike a lot of DIPAs, you don’t get hit over the head with hops and then get the malt as an afterthought. There’s an equal play between a strong, fruity hop bitterness and a lightly sweet, medium bodied malt fullness with caramel/butterscotch undertones. As big as this beer is, it would pair very well with food without overpowering it (as long as the food was hearty enough to stand up to it).

Purchased at Pike Place Deli and Grocery, or what ever the hell it’s called. Still, that place has a nice selection. In fact, it’s the only place that I’ve seen where this is available. Anyways, a nice fluffy head sits on-top of a coppery orange transparent beer. This beer has a pungent grapefruit, orange citrus aroma that just smacks my olfactories, like Ike slappin’ Tina. Sorry for the misogynistic statement, but I can’t think of anything else. This has a nice subtle fruit aroma, that is pleasant to smell. Wow, this beer is delicious. It has a bit of a rough beginning, but it has a nice citrus and fruit hop flavor that blends almost perfectly with the sweet flavor coming from the malts. The beer uses hops perfectly, in my opinion. There is this lingering bitterness, but it’s not caustic. I’m enjoying the lingering bitterness. The alcohol isn’t noticeable. The texture is nice and resinous. I hope they produce this year-round. Pliny, watch out, someone is giving you a run for your money.

Not hard to believe that Firestone would get this beer so right. Wonderful pine, grapefruit and orange with some herbal notes. The taste is where the malt shines: caramel sweetness and earthy notes with a nice bit of alcohol heat. Finishes with a medium to high bitterness and is nice a dry so that the bitterness doesn’t linger overlong. This beer is up there with some of the best Double IPAs out there, hands down.

UPDATED: FEB 8, 2011 651mL. Pours a clear amber with a very thin, yellow, dense head with fair retention but sticky, webby, white lace. Aroma is pineapple, fruity/tropical hops, caramel malt, lemon, sweet candies, sweet cherries, passionfruit, incredible amount of fruit juice tropical notes. Taste brings very sticky sweet malt as the base with some serous alcohol presence. Big fruity tropical hops with an oily mouthfeel. No cloying. No newspaper. No nutty, nut skin bitterness. Fairly soft and easy to love. Nice. Pretty solid, fresh, DIPA.

(22oz bottle, courtesy of BMan1113VR) Pours a clear golden body with a small white head. Aroma of weed, grapefruit, nuts, tangerine, grain, florals, and passion fruit. Flavor of passion fruit, nuts, citrus, caramel, grain, and grass. Excellent!