Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA

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

Pours a reddish amber with a little bit of off white head. Smells like sweet malts and some citrusy piney hops. The hop aroma is nowhere near what I’d expect from a triple IPA. Flavor is good, sweet malt and bitter hops up front followed by alcohol warmth and some lingering bitterness, not a lot of fruit or anything interesting, but good none the less. Mouthfeel is warming and thickish. Overall, a good but not amazing beer.

12oz bottle. Pours a clear, ruby-orange body with a thin, creamy, beige head that leaves a light lacing. Aroma is straight up hops. Lots of sweet and resiny pine and florals with just a hint of sweet caramels. Flavor is similar. Lots of juicy grapefruits and pineapple. Big time sweet pines with a light resin. A light caramel keeps this somewhat balanced, but this is clearly focused on the hops. Dry, medium bodied, and very clean for such an IBU explosion. Long, sweet pine aftertaste. Overall, a very tastey DIPA, but for some reason left me unexcited. Seems like it needs more than just an excess of sweet hops.

Bottle from daknole. Thanks man. Pours a deep hazy brown with a medium lightly tanned beige head. Malt, caramel, plums, and hops on the nose. Starts off smelling almost like a barleywine, possibly due to the high grain bill, but maybe due to age… I’m not sure how long the bottle was around before I got my paws on it. It would be nice if everyone did the batch labeling like Bell’s does. Thick. Quite thick actually, with a big malt component, and a bit of alcohol coming through. Finishes with a bit more alcohol and a big spicy hop bitterness. I was expecting more out of this, and will maybe have to track down one when I know it’s super fresh.

12 oz bottle purchased at Lukas in Kansas City, Missouri. Pour is reddish golden orange with nice settling and a 1/2 inch off white head. Sticky lacing left behind as the beer falls. Very unique color, I can’t remember a beer that looked quite like this one. Aroma of big resin pine hop bitterness, along with an earthy peanut shell aroma. Some citrus sweet and light alcohol in the back. Really fresh smelling. Actually pretty subdued for such a ginormous beer. Taste is big resin hops, though not nearly as bittering as I was expecting from the nose. The fruit sweetness is honey apple, and is strong and dry. Behind the fruit sweetness is a warming and lingering alcohol presence. It really doesn’t stick out too much, but is evident. Very much in the background is some toasty malt. Balance is way towards the hops in this one. The palate is medium to heavy, coats the mouth yet is dry and clean in the finish. More of the dry hop resin lingers with the alcohol in the finish. Alcohol really comes out as it warms. The honey really never cloys. Well constructed beer, I suppose, just not entirely my thing.

Hell yeah, finally saw it again back on the shelves in Ohio. Extremely hoppy aroma, tons of grassy, piney, resin aromas. Flavor is strong as hell. One of the hoppiest beers I’ve ever tasted. This one is unique, and stands out from many other IPAs. Has a nice sweet and malty backbone to back of the extreme hops. Reminds me alot of Hopslam, minus the honey. Very nice.

bottle. thanks tim. deep copper pour with thin soapy head. fragrant aroma of rich papery malts, and earthy hops. rich maltiness, apricot and pear, syruppy bitter finish. one big hoppy monster.

Bottle. Pours a deep cloudy amber golden color with very thin head. Aroma has a sweet grapefruit smell, caramel malts, but is overwhelmed by a piney hops. Taste is resinous sweet and a great variety and complexity of hops throughout. Palate is very thick and complex, the palate evolved and got better throughout the two bottles. A mouthfeel of a true impy stout. This one really grew on me, it could have been the 13% ABV. Unlike any beer I have had before.

2008 Bottle thanks motortoddhead - Pours a dk amber with a tiny off white head...aroma is sweet candy malt and floral hops...flavour is sticky sweet caramel with a lingering bitterness, creamy mouthfeel...I think my hair is on fire...