Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Rating #666. 350 ml bottle from Archerliquors. Cloudy copper red with a fizzy tan head. Smells very hoppy, floral grapefruit, pine, and alcohol aroma. Unfortunately, it has that soapy over-hopped taste. Alcohol and a bitter caramel-like taste also present. The 13% alcohol and 200+ IBUs are really impressive, but I don’t think it works. It has a heavy sweetness that reminds me more of a barley wine than an IPA. The complexity of this beer shows best in the finish where mixed fruit and an intriguing hoppy perfume show through and are followed by an intense alcoholic warmth. This would be best as a winter sipper. Despite the flaws evident in trying to create this type of over-the-top beer, I’m giving it high marks, because 1) it is growing on me as it warms a little bit and 2) it has an interesting and unique taste.

Damn good stuff. Pours an unfiltered amber with a slowly diminishing head. Immediately I smell the barley, searing bitterness, citrus zest, woodiness, booze and plastic. I taste more barley than hops in this beer but there’s still a lot of them to go around: piney, strong wafting and woodsy. Quite the brew!

This imperial IPA is as claimed by Founders: "massive in complexity." I have sampled it fresh, one year old, and two years old (but not at one sitting). Each vintage was different, but all three were fantastic. I liked the one-year old most.

12 ounce bottle. This is a big IPA. Pine, spicy, citrus hop character. Some caramel/crystal malts to balance the bitterness. The hop resins are dominating my palate. A good beer. I would find it hard to drink more then one of these in a sitting.Big and resiny.

This is what I expect of a double imperial IPA every time. that said. Poured on tulip. copper color almost no head with a clear and clean body and it looks dense and very oily. The hop aroma is very predominant that makes it hard to define other aromas but i do smell some roasted pine nuts. taste is heavy on the hops up front, malty and tiny hint of sweetness at the end. the best part is the body which is oily, and creamy.

29th August 2009
Hazy deep red-amber beer. Light silky palate. Immediate alcohol aniseed and rich bitter hops. Lingering rich malt and a long bitter hop aftertaste. An intense IPA with some barleywine character. Carbonated bite to finish. Marvelous!

Draught from Tiger’s founders event. HUGE ass beer with hardcore hops and some nice maltiness. Well camou’d alco. Danger Will Robinson....

Bottle. Pours a cloudy copper with small white frothy head. The aroma is floral hops and grapefruit.  Thick mouthfeel with a sweet hop and nice light bitter finish. Easy to drink a very impressive IIPA from Founders. 

Draft at Mugs Alehouse. This beer needs to be consumed when fresh and fresh it was. Intense aroma of complex hops, Lovely golden colour and not too dark, pretty intense on the palate, lively carbonation and mouth feel, I get hops and honey not too much caramel which is good and some alcohol on the finish. Would drink again in moderation of course.

Draught@Founders Brewer Night of The Pony Bar, NYC
Deep red, slightly hazy color, small off-white head. Very hoppy nose has berryish nose: rasberries, strawberries - I would say even marijuana. Full-bodied. Fruity, very hoppy flavor. Did I say ganja in aroma? It’s also in the flavor. Berries, grass, very resiny flavor. Marmelade malty backbone.

Bottle. Pours copper with almost zero head. The smell on this is ultra hops with some caramel. Taste is as bitter as out gets and the palate thick as hell. This is killer but be warned, a bit of booze on the finish. If you are not afraid of some alcohol bite in your DIPA, this is awesome. "Triple" IPA.