17thfloor (650), Chicago, Illinois, USA Apr 18, 2008 Updated: Apr 19, 2008 Pours reddish clear amber a lovely creamy off-white froth on top. Quality double IPA aroma of fresh hops, piney, pineapple, sweet citrus and sweet malt. First taste is slightly salty and pretty bitter. 85 IBU’s and I believe it. A little bit nutty and woody, not terribly sweet either. The bitter floral hop flavor is much more dominant than citrus. Some alcohol and pineapple in the finish, hot. Fluffy body, not sticky, actually somewhat light. A great double IPA... but no dreadnought =)
FatguyRacer (86), Crownsville, Maryland, USA Sep 6, 2008 Bottle. Pours a very deep amber/orange color with nary a head. Very citrusy nose with malts very present. Taste is very malty with a bitter hop back. Maybe too much as the hop lingers a very long long time. The mouth feel is thick and cream almost stout like. I’m not normally an IPA fan, but I kind of like this stuff. It’s pretty sweet and not a all over hopped. A very good beer. hirigalzkar (15), Stockholm, Sweden Sep 5, 2008 Bottle. A good beer, although a disappointment. Both the aroma and the flavour is rather one dimensional. A little too bitter and there is a lack of real character. rkuhnel (1102), Eureka, California, USA Sep 4, 2008 From a 22 oz bottle this poured an attractive dark orange almost tending toward copper with a nice white head and good lacing. Very attractive. Nose is a complex mixture of hops, with pine, citrus, and flowers. Miouthfeel is fairly full but the flavors are so overwhelming you hardly notice because your taste buds are dancing. This is a true hop bomb but manages it better than most .Great bitter finish. Fantastic beer. Rating number 1100. I get music. The_Jester (493), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Sep 1, 2008 650 mL bottle. Transparent copper-orange with a nice head. Lots of piney hops in the aroma. The hops bring grapefruit to the flavour, and a lovely bitterness begins about half way through and remains through the finish. The malt does not balance out the hops, but the hop flavour are so well done that you don’t want it to. Medium to full body. Very drinkable for a DIPA. Mitch_Wayne (104), Kokkola, Finland Sep 1, 2008 A lovely hoppy thing. Very strong citrus hoopy aroma but also enough malt in the taste to make this work on other levels than just being extreme. The sweetness is present both aroma and taste but it plays second fiddle well like a good guest musician.
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