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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my first 5. Got this beer at evergreen liquors in lou., KY. pours a true pale (actually almost more towards a golden) with a tight white head. aroma is floral, citrusy, and slightly malty. The citrus and floral characteristics come forward in the taste in the beginning, but the balance is pretty delicate for a IIPA with this much "hoppiness." The malt holds its own until the dry hop finish takes charge. Almost no detectable burn going down. Is this beer really 9.4%?? outstanding

this is simply one of the most gorgeous IPA’s ever made! The aroma is beautiful. I literally smelled it for five minutes before I even drank it. All I could say was "wow"!

Wow it smells like juicy tropical fruits with some pine in there. You get the citrus, orange, grapefruit, sweet fruit taste from the hops followed by a pine forest of a finish on the back of your tongue. The slick body makes you want to keep on taking another sip so excellent mouthfeel and body to this beer. You get some of the bready malts on the breathe out as well. Pretty bitter and what amazing for a DIPA. My favorite thing about this beer is how it mixes that hop flavor on the initial sip with the hop bitterness in the finish and aftertaste. Very well crafted beer.

I love this beer. There are distinct fruit or floral aromatics at first taste to match or better any I’ve had. Then a resin flavor that reminds me of tasting pine resin when I was growing up in the Piney Woods of East Texas. Then a lovely bitterness that lingers on the back of my tongue long after I’ve swallowed the last drop. My beer drinking experience is not nearly as extensive, so someday I may qualify this rating a bit, but for now, it’s the best beer I’ve ever had. I love this beer!

for me, the best beer i have drank in a long time. Like a carnival in your mouth, Double Trouble will make you smile with an absolute taste explosion.My highest recommendation. A perfect beer.

UPDATED: MAY 3, 2009 Replaces Hopslam as my favorite DIPA. Less sweet, and alcohol is better hidden than in Hopslam. Aroma and taste lean to herbal rather than citrus. Lingering bitter after taste.

Love this beer! Citrusy semi bitter finish everything just perfect! Cannot go wrong. You will want to smell this beer every time you go for a drink, beautiful aromatics.

Smells of some type of citrus. When I sniff more it smells of grapefruit, not the sour but the sweetness. Banana flavor upfront and bitter on the back of the tongue. For a 9.4% IPA it is almost nonexistent on the alcohol taste. Great beer I picked up when options were low.

Hazy, cloudy golden yellow with almost a finger of head. Adequate lacing. Decent retention. Looks good, if a little light in color for a DIPA. Whoo-hoo! Luscious hop aromatics , really citrus, mingled with malts, fruits and some banana. Very nice balance on the nose. A real delight and a sure preview of what’s to follow in the mouth. WAABAMM!!! Dittos, the flavors are right on par with what the nose previewed, and then some. Really sweet citrus, some tropical fruits with solid malt characters. The hops really shine in this one. Nice light dryness there, also. But not overly so. For those who like the citrus flavors in their IPAs, you will love this. Alcohol well-hidden. Body is rather medium for a beer heavy on flavor and alcohol. Appropriate carbonation levels. This is a solid Double/Imperial IPA, a true hophead’s orgasm. Recommend. I hope I will be able to get it more often.

If you have not tasted it, you must, it is like drinking fresh squeezed grapefruit juice the morning after a three-way with Kate Winslet and Kate Beckinsale.