2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
@ Great Alaskan Barleywine Festival ’06. Poor nose, lite citrusy piney, a little bready. Brownish yellow color. Bitter flavor. Metallic and grapefruit. Medium body, smooth creamy mouthfeel, sharp metallic bitter finish. I just don’t get it. With a name like double trouble I was hoping for more. To be fair jsquire did warn me about this one, but I didn’t take it. Wish I had, at least it wasn’t a full bottle or pint.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap at the brewpub. Pours a golden amber with a smaller bubbly white head. Aroma of some grapefruit, pine, mixed citrus and some caramel malt. Flavors of the pine and kind of floral. A little on the thin side.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
had during a trip to alaska. grapefruit aroma and flavor with all the hops. nice for the hopsheads.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Barrel Draught from the jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 30/09/2005
Golden coloured with fruity and hoppy aromas. Bitter lasting finish.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap at the 06 Great Alaska Beer and Barley Wine Festival. Yellow beer with a frothy white head. Very fresh pine nose. This is a thin IPA with harsh raw hoppy flavors. Disjointed pine and grapefruit rind and an almost soapy finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Clear gold appearance, showing a long-lasting rocky egg-shell head. The nose is rather subtle for that family, maltiness being limited to unchallenging breadiness. Flatish palate, light-medium bodied. Develops a concentrated hops feeling, earthy, floral, grapefruity and rather soily, but no maltiness backs it up which leaves a mostly disappointing experience.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
GABF. Pours a beautiful gold. Aroma is an immediate rush of hops. Flavor is nice and biting hops followed by a rounding out of grapefruit. Palate coats suitably. Surprisingly good.
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
dark yellow color small white head good lace citrus hop aroma nice carmel back. Well coated but a bit thin. Bitter front very grassy not much else to it. Pretty boring.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
On draft at the brewpub 7/14/05: Ruddy orange with a sticky-sided head. Bountiful citric hop aroma. Very nice grapefruity hop character but not overpowering with a great easy-drinking basis. Outstanding.
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