Fort Collins The Incredible Hop - Imperial Rye IPA

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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This is hands down the best beer I have ever consumed aside form Belgians. This will be my "go to" beer from now on. I like the rye taste, it seems to go well with the maltiness and hoppiness. Strong beer, be careful. I think it would be way too intense for the average beer drinker. That might explain some of the negative comments about it. But to each their own, every beer drinker has different tastes and likes or dislikes. All I know is this is the best beer I have ever tasted, aside from Trappist and Belgian. The alcohol levels almost make this a barley-wine I suppose. Please be careful, I had one eight ounce glass and almost wrecked my car whilst doing 80mph on the Florida Turnpike.

Tap at brewery. Clear copperish amber in hue with a foamy persistant white head. Lovely aroma of boozy sweet caramel and toffee, with a strong nutty presence like pecan and chestnut, with some subtle rye bread dough aromas and leafy citrusy hops. Flavor tastes like a more bitter form of the aroma, with some acidic citrus, boozy cara/toffee, rye bread, and some subtle nuttiness.

Bottle. Pours lightly hazy and particulate dark amber with a large, creamy off-white to light tan head, long retention with good to excellent lacing. Aroma is lightly toasted, earthy and spicy rye malt, faint biscuit and caramel notes with apricot, pear, and apple esters, light cherry notes and pine, resin, and spruce hops abundant in the nose. Flavor is moderately spicy hops and moderate to heavy bitterness, full supporting lightly sweet malt backbone with fruity esters and a dry finish. Medium-full body and medium carbonation.

Bomber poured a cloudy amber with a small lasting amber head. Aromasof rye, earthiness, carmel, cocoa and fruittiness. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of rye, earthiness, carmel, cocoa, light grapefruit and a hint of pine with a smooth dry bitter lingering rye finish.

22oz bottle. Poured a hazy amber color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of spicy rye bread, caramel, and citrus. Tastes of the same rye bread, caramel, citrus, and fruity.

Bomber from Capone’s. Pours hazy orabgy copper with 2-finger creamy well-retained head. Nose is piney floral hops, caramel malt, some sprucey and spicy notes. Tastes rich, very sprucey, woth some pineapple, tangerine, overall high IBU astringent mouthfeel, and some late florals and fruit, but the sprucey hops take center stage. Maybe the first rye IPA I’ve had where I didn’t really taste any rye.

Bottle, shared with Parksy. Burn orange colour, thick light gold head with wispy retention. Sweet sticky malts, coniferous hop character, light floral notes. The rye character is arely detectable here, but as an IIPA it’s fine, just a little on the malty side (which I like in my IPAs, so maybe thats why I flavour this over many of my RB peers).

22oz bottle poured into a Snifter at 42°. Color is a hazy amber with good carbonation and a small tight off white head. Aroma is a peppery rye scent. It has a medium body with a rich and creamy mouth feel. Flavor comes out allot like the aroma with big pepper, rye and spice that gives a touch of citrus. After taste is dry as a nice bitterness comes on and the rye leaves a mild sweet feel as the spice fades. Overall its a good brew.

Sample at Fort Collins Brewery. Pours a cloudy amber with hues of orange. Aroma of rye, grain, cocoa, Flavor of grain, citrus, rye, caramel, vanilla.

Pour on tap at the Denver Summer Brew Fest, hazy reddish pour with white head, aroma brought notes of lemon, biscuit, some nice rye spice notes, touch of nice orange and grapefruit notes as well. Taste is pretty rye forward, some nice lemon, spice, and caramel notes, touch of sweet orange and grapefruit, finishing fairly bitter. Pretty nice.