Great Divide Hercules Double IPA

	Percentile
	100
	overall

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Denver, Colorado USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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Ratings	Average	Score	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
1531	4.02/5.0	4.02/5.0	9.1%	97.9	Snifter, Tulip

Commercial Description:
Hoppier, maltier and with more alcohol than a standard IPA, Hercules Double IPA definitely is not for the faint of heart. Hercules Double IPA is, however, an elixir fit for the gods. A brash but creamy wonder, Hercules pours a deep orange-coppery color, forming substantial lace in the glass. Hercules Double IPA delivers a huge amount of piney, floral, and citrusy hop aroma and flavor from start to finish. A hefty backbone of nutty, toffee-like malt character balances Hercules' aggressive, punchy hop profile. 85 International Bittering Units (IBUs).

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paytoplay (123), , California, USA

3.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.7	7/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	16/20

Oct 7, 2009

a touch sweet and sticky. thick and heavy. alc doesn’t seem out of the ordinary. maybe not the freshest example. just not the west coast style iipa i’m use to and like. cool to try.

tilldeath (74), Arvada, Colorado, USA

3.6	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.6	8/10	5/5	7/10	3/5	13/20

Oct 5, 2009

While I like most aspect of this beer from the orange amber pour and off white head, to the crisp floral hop aroma, I did feel this beer fell short for me in one aspect. I thought the beer was a little to hot for only being 9% abv. I felt like it should have been a little lighter, but don’t let it through you off this is a great beer, I just prefer Titan IPA rather than the double.

jredmond (1027), New Jersey, USA

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	8/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	17/20

Oct 5, 2009

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange/red body with one finger of foamy white head. Beautiful hop aroma (pine and citrus). Flavor is awesome citrus hops, sweet candy notes.

mgermani (863), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

3.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.9	9/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Oct 4, 2009

Pours a brilliant orange with a thin off-white head with nice lacing. Barbecue chicken aroma - sweet and spicy and quite potent! Nice spicy flavour - much more hop flavour than malt, but by no means unbalanced, though I could have aged this a year, easily. Decent carbonation, lightly creamy body. Tasty, but certainly not a favourite.

joeneugs (308), Livermore, California, USA

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	8/10	3/5	9/10	4/5	17/20

Oct 3, 2009

Pours orange with an orange head. Very fruity aroma with peach, mango, and orange. Flavor is nicely malty and extremely bitter with caramel and melon rind. Very thick bodied. A super potent double IPA.

GV (17), , Netherlands

3.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.9	6/10	5/5	7/10	4/5	17/20

Sep 28, 2009

Dark amber color. Malty and toffee aroma with hint of hops. Aroma reminds a bit of Rogue Dead Guy Ale, but with less pronounced hops. Flavour starts with hops and then there is tofee and caramel fighting with the alcohol and hop bitterness. At the end the hop biterness wins. Tasty! Ps. It does give that oily/sticky/heavy feeling which usualy exists in high alcohol beers (except Belgian strong ales), but this one is well balanced and not toooo heavy.

tokyogoat (507), San Diego, California, USA

4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4	8/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	17/20

Sep 27, 2009

Pours a golden copper with a metric shit ton of sea monkeys floating around in it. Aroma is big on pine hops, earthy, floral, pine, but also a nice caramel scent. Flavor is very hop forward, strong but clean hop bitterness, nice oily pine hop resin flavors, not balanced, but supported with a nice sweet caramel back. Easily the best non CA DIPA I have had yet.

thirdeye11 (501), Texas, USA

3.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.7	7/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Sep 26, 2009

( 22oz bomber) pours clear orange with decent head and creamy lacing. Nose is bready, yeast, and no detectable alcohol presence. Taste of grapefruit resins, balanced nicely with sweet citrus. No bad lingers here. Nicely thick body. Almost nothing wrong with this one!

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