 jvmiller (280), Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA
Nov 12, 2007
Very very nice. Lots of hoppy bitterness, but a really great malty-biscuit backbone. Not as heavy-sweet as an IIPA might be, more like...hmmm....a double pale ale. Try it!
pik5el (43), Pasadena, Maryland, USA
Sep 5, 2008 Smell is floral and resinous. Dark copper/amber pour with a luxuriously thick head, very nice. Wow, the flavor is very smooth all the way through for aa 10.5% beer. Nice malt backbone balanced by a high, but not over the top hoppiness. You can feel the alcohol presence in the mouthfeel, which is nice but not overpowering. Great beer.
Chipper (56), Red Lion, Pennsylvania, USA
Sep 2, 2008 Pours a dark amber with a thick off white head. Very hoppy aroma with some fruit and malt. The flavor is smooth and the alcohol is pretty apparent. A thicker beer, which makes sense, and not something to drink when you are having more than a couple.
Gregis (911), Overland Park, Kansas, USA
Sep 1, 2008 2007 Vintage. Pours a hazy dark copper with two fingers of creamy beige head that deposits spotty lace upon the glass. The nose is pretty much what you would expect from a "double pale ale": twice the pale caramel malt and a solid backing of fruity and piny hops; a bit of a toasted/biscuity character to boot. Medium-bodied and grainy with a bitter, resinous, mildly astringent, mineral and spicy alcohol finish. If the flavor matched the nose, this would be a great beer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. "Green" resinous piny and fruity hops over a lesser pale malt, finishing harshly bitter and alcohol-forward. Like a boozy hop cocktail, this is one of those beers that pushes the limits beyond my tolerances. I have to think that this one might mellow with age, but it’s fairly rough right now.
Mitch_Wayne (104), Kokkola, Finland
Aug 31, 2008 Hoo hoo hoppy motherfucker. Sniffing this in a careless way makes the aroma almost singe your nosehairs. Certainly can’t blame this for being all bark and no bite, the taste has a hefty hop punch but it is all very good since the body can handle it and the sweetness balances it. This is the extreme stuff that I love, a nice sipper with an aroma and taste not to make you forget that in fact, you are drinking beer.
1_2many (231), Ohio, USA
Aug 30, 2008 Bottle. Dark amber with a finger of khaki head and nice lacing. Plenty of Floral, pine, and citrus hops in the nose with some caramel malt and alcohol. Flavor is a little sweet but mostly bitter and peppery alcohol. Good mouthfeel, light carbonation, warming after the swallow. Good but the alcohol could be hidden a bit better.
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