Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA

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

I had this beer from a bottle at Mad Mex so I can’t imagine how good it might be on draft. Poured and looked like golden honey with huge hops without any bad aftertatste. This has got to be one of the best beers I have had and just got better as it warmed in the glass.

12 oz bottle poured into a tulip glass. strong aroma with a strong perfum-like taste that hits you with every sip. a good beer. quite flavorful, and hard to believe it has 12% abv.

12 oz bottle served in a tulip glass. Pour was a burnt orange without any head at all. Nose is hops, malts, rosemary, oranges, light caramel, and light dried barley. Taste is a bitter that borders on poisonous, yet enjoyable on some level, malt, pine tar, and a sweet citrus that lingers into the finish. This is such an intense brew, with certain favors bearing down like a freight train, yet disturbingly enjoyable. As a side note, I can’t believe this is 12% ABV.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark orange-brown color with a small tan head. The aroma was sour, tangy and lightly sweet with strong fruity and light floral and piney hops. Fairly complex on the nose. The flavor was tangy, nutty, dry and lightly bitter. There was a strong floral, piney and fruity hop presence that coated the tongue and would not leave. There were undertones of nutty malts and faint caramel. There were some off flavor that were difficult to identify and the beer was way too dry for my taste. The body was fairly thick. Interesting.

Pours a grapefruit-like red with a small, thin white head. Smells of fruits, mostly citrus, as well as malts and pine. Taste is quite citrusy, but you also get some caramel and malts. The finish is quite bitter, and you can sense that the ABV is quite high. This is a very, very good DIPA.

Bottle. Hazy amber body, with a small yellow head. Aroma is caramel, sweet malt, sweet fruit. Flavor is alcohol, sweet malt and ripe fruit. Almost to complex.

I pour over this beer, but all I get is a deep aroma of mostly malt and dark alcohol. Not that it’s a bad thing. Honey copper, small white head. Rich hop complexity up front, creamy caramel base, back to the leafy floral goodness. Nearly medicinal, mostly herbal. Tasty strong IPA, balanced enough to be more drinkable than it should be, I’m mostly through this bottle and I know it’s gonna catch up to me. Oh well.

Bottle. Pours deep rust colored with a thin white head. Very sweet aroma, almost like a cognac with a slight hop undertone. Starts with tart cherry and sweet caramel malt, quickly followed by a hop explosion, finishes with a different bitter hop flavor and lingers a very tart and sharp. Thick and chewy, very potent. Very complex but balanced, outstanding.