Founders Double Trouble IPA

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Pours a cloudy straw yellow with a white head. Notes of hops, citrus. Taste follows suit, bitter, savory, slightly sweet. Very nice.

From the Bottle. Intriguing aroma that stands out from other DIPA’s, Grapefruit , Honey and hops with some malt present. Very clean and balanced which is hard to achieve at these strengths. Not too sweet or too cloying. I get honey sweetness with some hop bitterness but nothing astringent. By far the most competent version of this style I’ve had, sure some booze is present but it doesn’t burn or mask any of the other flavours. Finishes clean. Founders know what they’re doing.

Wonderful beer. The hops are very clean and powerful with the malt in the finish helping take the edge off of the hops. Delicious beer

Pours an orange amber color with a small head. Nose is pine and citrus and quite pleasant. Taste is full of flavor, bitter bot not overwhelming, Taste is pine and citrus, predominately peach with some grapefruit. Finish is long and dry. Nice Double IPA, do not forget to turn the bottle upside down. Quaff Score 9 / 10.......... A great midwestern microbwerey

Pours a hazy golden orange with a white head and hoppy, citrus aroma. Taste is sweet and hoppy, of citrus, peach, pine, and grass with a bitter finish. Tasty brew from Founders, fruity and hoppy double IPA.

4/6/12 bottle consumed today. Pours a dusty golden color with a sticky witn head that clings to the top ring of the snifter. Looks like a crisp English cider. Tangerine and quomquat aroma. Taste starts off the same but also features honey sweetness mid palate and then a floral, Earthy, and slightly grassy and resin hop bitterness. Very full and flavorful with good malt. Delicious 2IPA.

Draft in snifter.. Quite clear/golden pour.. Slightly fruity orange hoppy aroma, very nice!! Very clean floral orangish hoppy fantastic taste mouthfeel and finish!! Definitely having again!

Draught. Clear bright gold with a thin head. Aroma is soft, sweet citrus with mango and pineapple notes. Full flavor with a long finish. Strong bitterness with lots of tropical fruit. Absolutely none of the alcohol shows. Full bodied.

12 oz. bottle, pours a slightly hazy golden with a small white haed. Aroma is quite piney, with tree bark and sawdust, and bready malts to back. Flavour is fruitier than the nose suggests - oranges especially - with lots of piney hops, some honey sweetness and caramely bready malt. Somewhat dry palate, with a lingering bitter pine-dominated finish. Excellent.

UPDATED: MAY 8, 2012 Very, very big, fluffy head. Light color. Reminds me a lot of my dear Centennial IPA at first in smell and taste, but alas, it’s not nearly as balanced and delightful - less of the wood notes, too much of an alcohol burn in the finish and in the aftertaste, and just not as much of the slurpy good, lingering flavors that make the Centennial such a perfect beer for me in EVERY facet. It’s hard to get a double IPA just right - this is just another one that has its moments, but doesn’t compare to say, Stone Ruination, or even Sierra Nevada Hoptimum, which, though its high ABV is more noticeable than Stone, nonetheless has tons of flavor from start to finish that seem to keep the burn from getting out of hand. UPDATE: Bumping this one up a bit - along with some other beers, this one seems to get much better when it sits in the fridge for several straight days as opposed to one or two. The alky burn is less overpowering, and the sweetness and other flavor balances come out more.