Grassroots/Cigar City Neither

Grassroots Brewing
Formerly brewed at Fanø Bryghus
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Greensboro Bend, Vermont USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Bottle, 33 cl. Hazy golden with a foamy, slowly diminishing white head, nice lacings. Aroma is extremely fruitdriven, hoppy. Orangejuice, graoefruit, sweaty armpit, resin,, lemonzest, elderflower and light malts in the nose. Malty biscuity sweetness and strong bitterness in the mouth, lightly astringent superdry, resinous yet fruity finish. Creamy texture, full body, soft carbonation. Monstrous!

Bottled 33cl. Murky golden with an average sized bubbly white head. Pine, cat’s piss, grapefruit, mango, sweat and pale malts showing up in the nose. Strong bitterness. A little sticky chunky lace. Creamy palate. Peppery on the swallow. Medium to full bodied. Grassy bitter finish which is reminiscent of resinous hops. Flawless and nice.

UPDATED: MAR 23, 2012 13/III/2012 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 29/VI/12 (2012-237)

Little cloudy bright orange beer, big white creamy head, little stable, adhesive. Aroma: lots of exotic fruits, pineapple, passion fruity, with a subtle piny character laying underneath. MF: good carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very fruity, pineapples, citrus fruit, some grapefruit, piny bitterness. Aftertaste: grapefruit, pineapple, bitter, very dry ending. Nicely done.

Bottled @ home, bb june 2012. Clear golden color, short white head. Hoppy aroma, grassy, some sweet candy, ctirus, hint of pineapple, new zealand hops? Very bitter taste, again slight candy. Slight harsh on the palate, quite dry. Pretty nice, although I don’t have a very fresh bottle. Love to try this fresh once.

Bottle 33 cl, Bierkoning. Pours cloudy golden with a great white head leaving lace. Aroma is caramel, malty, hoppy, piny, citric, fruity and spicy. Flavor is fullbodied; sweet, malty, pungent, caramel, piny, fruity, citric and grapefruit. Finishes bitter sweet and malty.

Bottle: Pours hazy murky yellow. with a longlasting pillowy white head. Aroma: Very citrussy, Orange peel, mandarin, grapefruit, fruity sweetness, lovely juicy citrussy hops, some pineapple, small amount of caramel, Very light for a IIPA, westcoast stylee, Taste: passionfruit, sweet lemon, citrussy, orangepeel, grapefruit, peach, quite dry, small maltbase, some grassy notes, light corn, nice bitterness, resin, light medicin, cough drops. Nice, very balanced

Bottle… Cloudy amber ale with a mid-sized, creamy, white head. Great retention. The only two things I’m able to pull from the nose are fruity white grapes and white pepper – both are nice. No complaints. Full-bodied with a milky mouthfeel and tingly carbonation. The flavor is bitter, but grapey, fruity and nice. There are also some nice biscuit and bready malts. Acidic, moderately bitter, dry finish. Big-time thanks to Plovmand for helping me land the third of four beers resulting from the Cigar City/ Grassroots/Hill Farmstead collaboration!

Bottle: Medium to bigger airy but vast and slow disappearing white head on top of a hazy yellow orange colored beer. The white head changes in to a small rocky half half lacing. Smell is a terrific smell of fresh fruits like peach, pine, pine apple, cactus, mango, citrus, lots of exotic fruit and a soft gentle hop character. Taste is a very gentle balanced mix of exotic fruits like cactus, pine, peach, mango, grapefruit, hops, citrus, good and growing bitterness, hints of floral, herbs, grass. The first part of the sip/taste is fruity, exotic fruity, fresh and floral, the 2nd part the bitterness (hops, grapefruit) takes over and pushes everything to the backgroud. Delicious! Full bitter aftertaste with some nice hints of hops, fruit and some herbs. Low carbo, soft silky and thicker mouthfeel, full body and a creamy texture. Wow, amazingly balanced, really good bitter and fruity fresh. Nice! (hmm... that’s a nice burp, hops and burger!)

Bottle @ Home. Pours slightly hazy light golden with a huge white head. Aroma of malt, peach, grassy and lots of citruss / grapefruit. Taste is malt, light caramel, peach, mango, grapefruit, grassy hops. Medium body, average carbonation, alchohol well hidden. 280112

In short: A harsh, very bitter, very dry, grapefruity and grassy blonde IPA. Good tasty stuff.
How: Bottle 330ml, consumed relatively fresh 4 months after the beer release
The look: Clear blonde body topped by a medium white head
In long: Nose is all about sharp grapefruity hops with also a light herbal component. Taste has sugary pale malts (crystal malts?) that do not contribute much to the flavour profile other than residual sugars (refined white sugar sensation). For a 9%+beer this one sure has a shy malt bill. Taste is dominated by ultra-sharp-bitter grapefruty hops with very dry grassy notes. A lithe alcohol bite at the end. Intense bitterness with an aggressive dryness. I love dry and bitter IPAs so I loved that beer but even I must admit that this is a brutal beer. Maybe it is because I was drunk but I thought this was an very good IPA, and because I’m a honest person most of the opinions I express every day are prefixed by “Maybe it is because I was drunk but…".