3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
@Tampa Wkly Gathering courtesy fishingnet-22oz bottle-pours a retaining thin white head and cloudy amber color. Aroma is pine/citrus-lemon, secondary medium malt. Taste is pine/citrus-lemon, secondary medium malt.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
22 oz bottle. Cloudy yellow brown with a pocked white head. Nose is pineapple, grapefruit juice and pine. Crisp and juicy medium light with lively carb. Taste is lemon and orange with touches of banana sweetness. Gets bitter with grapefruit peel and resin. Hoppiest of the Flossmoor IPAs i’ve tried.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Waxed bomber obtained from Binny’s in the South Loop in Chicago. Poured a deep orange color with a half finger width white frothy head that stays around for a while and leaves great lacing on the glass. The aroma is very fresh... it consists of nice fresh hops, some sweet malt, and possibly some caramel malt. I would have rated the aroma higher but it seemed to disappear as the beer warmed... very unusual for an IPA. It had a strong aroma when it was first opened and then it went fairly bland. The taste is very good though. It has a great hop bitterness that sticks around for a while and some light citrus and pine. Overall a very good IPA... I will look forward to trying more from Flossmoor Station!
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
hazy orange/gold color, tny off white bubbles for a head, lacy. nose is citric hops, with perhaps a trace of pine. taste is creamy caramel, followed by citric bitterness. medium bodied, pine bitterness in finish, which grows and lingers quite nicely. a very enjoyable brew, but not as complex as the ingredient list might suggest. the 9.5% alcohol is completely hidden (i like a nice alcohol kick now and again), which means i should not be drinking much of this while out on the town, singing byrds songs. maybe i can fill a growler, drink it alone in my basement, wearing my bathrobe while blogging on the interwebs, ranting about the injustices of the world, while watching soap operas...but i digress. might be the alcohol. sampled on tap @ brewpub during mug club tapping.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
22oz bottle, probably bottled about 2 weeks ago or less. this bad boy poured cloudy golden with white head. the aroma is bit strange for a double ipa, quite metallic, some lemon and lime. this is really a faint aroma for the style. the flavor comes in with that metallic note which tastes more clearly from the grains. i think we’ve got some crystal malt here. the hop flavor is astringent with lemon and orange zest. the alcohol isn’t there at all and it is making me doubt the 9.6% claimed. there is a pretty big dry hop bitterness which remains on the palate for quite some time even though the body feels too thin. i don’t mean to be a dick but everything about this beer screams mediocre, and at $10/bottle, this is probably the last bottle of IPA I will buy from the new brewer at flossmoor. it taste similar to sierra nevada IPAs. perhaps this was better on tap at the release (which was just over a week ago so that would be a joke if it was that much better) or my south side friends are just homers and (mostly) old men.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Mostly clear, deep golden under a largish white head which faded quickly. Sharp, sharp pine resin nose allows very little else to come through. Mouth is mostly pine and pepper carried in a sticky, honey-thick body. Dry finish, low alcohol late. Hop-heads should enjoy, I found it a little overpowering and one-dimensional. ~~~~~~~~~~ On draught, Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery, Flossmoor, IL.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bomber poured a hazy gold with a small lasting ivory head. Aromas of biscuit, grapefruit, orange zest and light pine. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, grapefruit and pine with a smooth dry lingering bitter finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Reviewed from notes. Had this on tap a few days after I heard about it, back when I was in Chicago and could do such things.
Pours a slightly-dark orange color with a white head that recedes fairly quickly, especially considering how many hops are likely added to this one. Nose has some bright citrus aromas that really pop along with a bit of malt. The citrus doesn’t quite carry over to the taste. While it’s fairly bitter, the fresh hop kick and flavor that I was expecting isn’t there and it’s actually a bit malty. Drinks fairly well overall, but isn’t a killer DIPA.
Serving type: on-tap
Reviewed on: 11-10-2010
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Very cloudy orange w/ a fine bubbled head that leaves behind just a few patches of lacing. Piny American hops make up most of the nose though w/ a bit of woody, resinous sharpness that I feel detracts a bit from the overall character. Flavor is similarly dominated by a woody kind of hop presence that just isn’t really too my tastes. Good balance of sweet to bitter though and the mouthfeel is silky and nice. This shows no hint of it’s nearly ten percent ABV and one could honestly mistake it for a much lower gravity beer. Solid beer but there are certainly better options from the very good people at Flossmoor.
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