llafoe (40), Greenwood, Indiana, USA
Mar 25, 2007 12 oz bottle. Pours a cloudy orangish gold with a very slight white head. Aroma is hops, orange peel, grapefruit and pine. Taste is VERY bitter with a carbonated bitter pine grapefruit finish. Strong enough to wake the dead... I’d say so! Very nice.
 LilKem (1210), Marietta, Ohio, USA
Mar 24, 2007 fantastic aroma, some floral notes, some pine and grapefruit with orange blossom and lemon, with a little carmel and some juniper berries. nicely rounded out by a huge malt backbone with some nuts. bitter aftertaste but not unbearable, more like the good bitter. bitter and sweet. they;’re right though, it’s very drinkable, and it will knock you on your ass.
alexanderj (2213), Chino Hills, California, USA
Mar 19, 2007 Bottle brought back from Chicago. This had some good flavor and was fairly enjoyable. However, the malt dominated just way too much. Hops very subdued. Good aroma though; some pine, citrus and caramel malt. Good balance; wish that balance would have been present in the beer. Still I liked it, but not an elite version of the style.
igneous1 (1374), Davenport, Iowa, USA
Mar 17, 2007 2006 bottles purchased by the bottle at the clybourn location. color is fairly clear, orange-ish/copper. aroma is loaded with pine and grapefruit and clearly this has a wee bit of age on it as the malts are quite caramelly. flavor is dominated by the caramel malts initially with the hop bitterness coming in the middle and lasting through the finish. very good but not an outstanding IIPA.
Mrthirstyneck (341), Minnesota, USA
Mar 17, 2007 not bad but yes like incutrav states the hops for a IIPA are WEAK too much malt id assume. and the fruity grapefruit tones were just WAY overbearing not real tasty!
incutrav (576), Woodbury, Minnesota, USA
Mar 12, 2007 Not sure why everyone likes this one so much. Im a big HOP fan, but this tasted like nothing but grapefruit to me. absolutley NO hop aftertaste at all, i compare every IPA/DIPA to Surlys Furious, and this wasnt anywhere near that, which few are, but this being a double i expected way more. Was very sweet and just not very good.
Willin8 (55), Massapequa, New York, USA
Mar 11, 2007 Rich golden pour. Aroma is pine. Flavor is heavily hoppy, full and robust. It’s evident when you are drinking it that it contains very good ingredients. Well rounded example of an IPA.
decaturstevo (1971), decatur, Tennessee, USA
Mar 9, 2007 12oz btl. Pours a golden/amber with a slightly off white head. A piney aroma of hops. A flavor of grapefruit and a very pleasant warmth. An all over full bitter that finish this fine beer in fine fashion. An excellent palate with very good carbonation.
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