Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA

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

12 oz. bottle from Grape & Gourmet. Dark orange/brown pour with a 1/4 inch thick off-white head. Big piney hop aroma but also surprisingly sweet smelling. While good, and certainly hoppy, this one does have a big malt presence. This ain’t no West Coast IIPA that’s for sure. I can’t even necessarily say that it is balanced because it is no where near as smooth as something like Hercules. It’s just big and hoppy (which I like a lot) and big and sweet (which is fine but I don’t like as much). There is some alcohol burn with this but overall the 12% is hidden well. It’s a great IIPA but especially for the price you can do better.

12 oz bottle compliments of the most excellent DrBayern (much mahalo Matt). Pours a clear rich dark copperish red with a small bubbled relatively thin cream colored head. The nose is pure hop heaven pungently stretched over a sweet round caramel backbone. This hop aromas run the gamut from pine to citrus to flowers. Notable, but not overwhelming alcohol. Exploding with fresh floral hops, grapefruit, orange peel, butterscotch and crystal malts. I could literally smell this stuff from 3 feet away. The first sip is a straight knock to the dome! Wow, what an insanely bitter beer, but I like it! Crammed with hoppy goodness. Nutty and earthy crystal malt tones subdue the intense ABV, so it finishes quite nicely, with the IBU’s pounding your palate for minutes afterward. I am impressed at how such a monster can be balanced. An intense beer in every aspect, a beer to be cherished and betrothed.....

yummy...got a 12oz bottle from randall’s liquer in st louis...love IPA’s and gotta say this is my fav...founders double trouble is also another great ipa

12oz. bottle. Aroma of sweet, sugary malts and fruity, floral, citric hop, some alcohol detected along with notes of caramel, dough, pine and faint berry. Hazy deep copper color with a fading, slight head and very sparse lacing. Flavor is similarly a blend of nearly equally huge malt and hop, with copious amounts of toasty caramel sweetness and massively bitter, piney, citric hop, the alcohol heat coming in towards the finish, which is otherwise long, resinous, spicy and honeyish. Oily, smooth, warming, thick palate, body is as full as one would expect from a brew of this magnitude. Truly over the top, but not harsh or poorly conceived, actually maintains a balance of sorts. Thanks to theisti!

beautiful red with large white head. amazing citrusy and floral hop nose. hop bitterness that is not overwhelming before immediately being followed by a wondrful citrusy and floral hop flavor before a lot of low crystal sweetness with some unfermented sugars definitely being present. almost no hint of the alcohol, making the 12% abv very surprising. tremendous, the best beer i have had from founders without question

Bottle said 13% ABV. Pours a deep reddish copper with a small beige head that leaves a ton of sticky lacing. A strong aroma of sweet bready malt with a combination of citric and floral hops. Some boozy alcohol is present, but blends in well. Wow!! Bold flavor on this number. Lots of everything...alcohol, malt, and hops. Really in your face and a little bit hot. Mouthfeel is packed with chewy malt, oil, resin and sticky sugars. A nice original experiment, but I’ll have to agree with tennisjoel about the Double Trouble for the same reason.

Copper body with a very thin white head. Heavy hops and heavy malts. Sweet, but that is expected for 12%. More drinkable than double crooked tree which measures in at a similar ABV. Bitter finish, but not over the top. Good brew. I probably prefer double trouble for its drinkability, but this is nice.

(Sample Date: 6/12/2009 Source:Other) 1.3 year old bottle. Caramelized maltyness with spicy hops in aroma. Cloudy orange amber with little head. Big hop spiciness in flavor with aged malt sweetness. Finish was very sweet and very bitter. Definite hop bomb.