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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Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.
Light unclear medium orange color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, citrus - orange. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091018]

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of hops and grass. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, malt, and grass, as well as light notes of alcohol, leading to a bitter finish.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Pours a hazy golden with an off-white head. Fresh, peachy hop aroma. Solid body, lots of caramel and fruits with a massive bitterness, 230909

12 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy dark orange with a small white head. Aroma is solid pinewood and light peachy hops aroma. MIld liqourice note to a dry pinewood hops flavoured base. Nice sweet caramel malt flavoured base. Lingering caramelish and sweet malty flavoured. Smooth and yet solid hoppy.

Bottled@Beer Hunters, Pori. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is bread, crisp fruityness, rich on cookies and biscuits as well. Flavour is dry fruity and wooden hops with crisp biscuity notes as well. A rather pleasant and bitter brew.

Bottled at Sorbon, Stockholm. Lightly hazy golden, rch creamy head. Bready lychee aroma. Sweet and full bodied with dense, ompact mouthfeel. Doughy malt overrun by soapy lychee and grapefrut hops. Nothing subtle about it - this is a mcho beer, but in the sense of being overly aggressive, just very powerful and self confident. Massively bitter, but non-assaulting finish. Among the best of it’s kind!

UPDATED: AUG 29, 2009 Bottle at home. Hazy golden coloured with a small white head. Fruity aroma of hops and pine needles with notes of grass and grape fruits. Sweet and fruity flavour of hops, pine needles and caramel with notes of grape fruits. Dry hoppy finish.

Bottle at På Besök, Malmö, 86 IBU
Hazy golden color; small head. Strong aroma of malt, cereals, hops. Strong body structure, toffee flavor, some residual sugars (which is always good), powerful and resiny hopping, with some pine needles. Overall, a solid and pleasant Double IPA, yet not impressive.

UPDATED: FEB 6, 2010
Date: February 06, 2009
Mode: Growler
Source: Footset Foreplay Friday
Appearance: hazy orange, wispy white head
Aroma: huge sweet citrus hop aroma, sweet fruityness
Flavor: sweet crystal malt flavor, lots of hop flavor, nice fruityness, just enough bitterness for balance

Date: February 10, 2009
Mode: bottle
Words: Brusin’ Ales
Aroma: sweet grapefruit aroma with sweet orange and tangerine
Flavor: picking up more bitterness in the flavor in the bottle version, lots of the fruityness, tempered sweetness begins towards the bottom of the glass

Date: February 05, 2010
Mode: bottle
Source: hop city
Aroma: sweet crystal and peppery pine aroma
Flavor: big bitter flavor, touch of balancing pale malt sweetness

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: *** /4

Clear golden with a medium off white head. Aroma had loads of hops, pine and grapefruit and floral notes. Flavour had loads of hops iwth malty, caramel, pine, pine and grapefruits. Finished very dry and dusty. Hop burn toward the end. Finished very bitter.