Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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When opened the aroma hit my nostrils and I got a chub. It smells like a stripper thats eating a carmel apple in the middle of the woods. To the tongue it was sweet and rich, and when swallowed it was exceptionally warm and bitter, in a good way, kinda like your in-laws. By far the best tasting IPA(triple) i have ever had. It was $11.99 at the local package store for 4, 12 oz. bottles. I will be buying more. Oh did I mention the 13% alcohol whips the racehorses ass too. If you have never had this, i suggest you buy it. Just like you used to tell your girlfriend, you never know what you like, until you try it.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2009 12oz bottle. Thanks to JCW. Guess it is a few months old. Served way too cold, a few minutes removed from the fridge at 38°. The beer is thick and red, with a small, hazy head. The aroma is bigfoot-ish, lots of hops and some turbino sugar caramel and honey. Smells mighty tasty. The beer coats the glass like crazy. The initial taste is caramel, malt, wildflower honey, with some floral and citrus hops waiting to take over. When the beer hits the back of the tounge, the hops emerge and bring a nice, hoppy flavor to the beer. The finish is above average bitterness, but nothing out of control. The huge hops are well balanced with what must be a huge malt bill. The hops are very floral, piney, spicy and somewhat abrasive. They lack the subtle character of some hops. I am not sure if it is the type of hops or the sheer amount used. As the beer warms, the ending bitterness increases. The mouthfeel is pretty freaking big.

Clear eerie deep red pour with a nice initial off-white head.. that fades rather quickly. Aroma is of some powerful pine forest and deep, sweet caramel. Nice balance in the aroma blended the sweetness and the hops quite well. Highly viscous mouthfeel coats each and every one of the tastebuds with those powerful hops. Caramel is not too evident until close to the finish, yet it provides great support for the hop assault. Alcohol, caramel, and pine form a great trifecta on the finish. This was a huge, mean, wonderful brew!

12oz - Aroma is strong with floral hops and thick with sweet cherry and malt. Pours a deep ruby red with a small bubbly head and great lacing. Flavor is a blast of hops and alcohol. The sweet cherry and random malt are there but cannot completely balance out the extreme hop presence. As it warms, the flavors do mend together. Palate is tart and sticky. If you love hops, you’ll love this beer.

Smells like hops, whole hops, and nothing but the hops. The aromas are enough to make you question your ability to rate this colossal brew. Pours a like syrup and even with an aggressive pour the head doesn’t want to come out and play. More of a reddish copper hue then anything it the bit of head is an off-white color. The flavor is powerful but delicatable. The citrus taste of the hops run out of the gates and assault the tastebuds but with the backing of the malt it works well. The alcohol is apparent as it warms throughout. Lightly carbonated it seems a bit syrupy but it seems to be the case with most IIPA’s I’ve had. Overall a great brew.

Whoa. Deep copper pour seems almost syrupy from the bottle to the glass. The nose on this is pure hop fuel. Citrusy and floral, but in perfect balance. Soooo tempting. The body is full, loaded with chewy malt, hop bitterness and alcohol. Warming from start to finish. More barleywine like attributes than IPA - spicy, woody, heavy and rather cloying. Really plum-like as it warms. The body is also slightly syrupy, which is an annoyance for me. It is in the same class as DFH 90, but more clunkily put together and much less drinkable. If Founders would tone the body down a hair, this could be one kickass double IPA - but then it wouldn’t be the Satan of IPAs, would it? While I would only want to drink this every great once in a while, I could sit and sniff it all day, every day.

Small head with a brillent red color. A fun beer/meal. Just so much alcohol and fruit it is hard to detect the strong hops. Very syrupy. 2nd try a day later after a warm up beer was much better.

Pours ruby read and settles brownish with a tan head which starts small but builds as the beer finishes pouring. Aroma is full of hoppy goodness. Has a thick piney hop wave with some grapefruit hops and a barely noticable sweet round malt. Flavor is huge and multi-facited. There is the obviously expected huge hop presence, and it is so plesant. It is venious and even has a sweet floral hop character that comes as a secondary hop character, behind a bold grapefruit hop. Malts??? This beer has some. Big bold malt character provides the balance and bit of sweetness that keeps the huge hop flavor from being overpowering. This beer has character that brings it close to that of a barleywine. Suprisingly, with 13% alcohol, there is some warmth, but it is not harsh at all. This is a very plesant beer. Top 5 IIPA’s that I’ve had before. With the character that it has I think I am going to age it a bit and see what happens.

Pour is a nice thick looking red with a white head. Aroma is of citrus and pine hops. Flavor is bitter hops and lots of malts. Swallow is creamy but then you get the alcohol burn on the back of the tounge. I thought the hops would make more of a presence in the taste but the malt stands out here. Overall its ok but there are some IIPA’s out there with more body and hop presence

UPDATED: JUL 5, 2009 Almost a barley. Nice. Put it up with Arrogant Bastard or Great Divide’s work. They should put six in a pack instead of four and knock two bucks of the price. As is, it’s an every now and then beer at 13 bucks a four.