 blankboy (3198), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jun 11, 2006 Bottle shared with and courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours hazy with an orange middle and yellow on the outside and a small diminishing off-white head -- looks pretty cool. Fantastic aroma with a variety of hops: citrus, pine, resin, UK barn-like funky ones and more, I loved it. Flavour’s equally hoppy and nicely balanced with some sweet malt, it’s delicious and very easy to drink. Alcohol’s extremely well hidden. Nice full body. This is pretty much a perfect IIPA -- this hophead is in love!
Thaichile (599), 10aFly, New Jersey, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jun 11, 2006 Bottle. The nice balance of hops and malts that begins on the nose of this brew continues to the last drop. Pours a darker golden with some citrus scents. Very nicely balanced, sweet, bitter, thick, and creamy. Great brew. Thanks to Beervana for the bottle.
mynie (44), Waterloo, Iowa, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Jun 10, 2006 That is one awful pretty pour. Sticky honey sunshine with a rocky, retentive white head.
Big grapefruit and pine hops balanced wonderfully by Goose Island’s regular malt flavor. You know that malt--it’s a little too earthy to be caramely and normally it doesn’t work that well. Here it works great, balancing out tons of hops.
Starts off with a big rush of powerful hops, citrus, earth and butter. Then it moves into the earthen caramel malt, rushing into a dull sour sweetness like a fresh rye bread, ending with a lingering dry hop bitterness. Not as hoppy as most x2 IPAs, but damn near perfectly balanced.
These hard to find, expensive Goose Islands sure are tasty. I guess I can’t fault them for putting so much goodness into their reglar offerings, they are trying to run a business, all. At least these get released every once in a while.
HogTownHarry (3987), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jun 6, 2006 Updated: Jun 7, 2006Bottle (12oz). Shared with blankboy, my bottle. Hazy orange, smallish white head. Hoppy, yes - juicy ctirus, resin, and that odd really funky-earthy UK/East Coast hops, some malt - juicy and funky. Taste is basically hop-medley - they’re all here, long mixed bitter finish, really damned fine - even some tea character in the finish. Solid body, astringent and decently lively mouthfeel - really solid I2PA, quite bitter, long linger and finish.
Lou18 (1353), West Paterson, New Jersey, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
May 23, 2006 Jimmack "06. Pour was a brown/golden with tight off white head. Lots of fruit-citrus nose here. Grapefruit. Real nicew hop. Full body here. I loved this. Sticky hoppy wonderfulness.
SoLan (1411), Orlando, Florida, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
May 22, 2006 Clear amber. Large, dense, frothy, tan head. Flavor and aroma of full spectrum hops (spicy, flowery, citrus, pine, earth, soap, poison), and enough malt for support. Full/medium, balanced body is very drinkable. Excellent.
pantani (1896), Salinas, California, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 21, 2006 Aroma is northwest hops, very piney. Hint of bubblegum. Taste is very pleasant and light. Pliny The Elder Jr? Very Nice.
IrishBoy (2704), Bakersfield, California, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
May 21, 2006 Light amber with a gold head, hoppy aroma, malty hop flavor with a nice hoppy bitter aftertaste.
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