3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
4 oz sample on tap@the brewery: Golden-amber color with a small off-white head. Aroma is citrus and pine. Flavor starts tropical fruit sweet followed by lots of bitter grapefruit, a little pine and a semi-dry bitter orange rind finish. Medium body is creamy with gentle carbonation. West IPA on steriods!
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Slightly hazy golden-copper. Tropical fruit, citrus and caramel aroma. Fun hop juice. Pear, guanabana, brown sugar, and cantaloupe. Fairly normal SoCal IPA.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: APR 24, 2008 Draught @ Hamiltons, SD. Lovely looks: can’t stop staring at this model-like brilliant orange beauty. Bright flavors hovering between earthy groundedness and fruity estery resiny delights. Spot-on with the hops, very nice.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught Huge, mango-yellow, dense head over slightly hazy pale amber beer. Fresh C-hops, orange rind, orange cake. Taste differs seriously with a very cake, pastry-like taste, seriously diminishing the hops, in a balancing way. Some oxydation apparent. Well-bodied, viscous and nearly pappy, bit sticky. Good one, but it ought not to get oxydized so fast.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
On-tap at Churchill’s for Hopocolypse. Pours a dark orange, almost light brown color with a creamy off-white head, some sheet lace. Smells of dark, earthy, resiny hops. Tastes about the same as it smells. Very earthy hop flavors, almosts tastes like sticks, good and bitter but lots of sweetness mixed in as well. Pretty thick body with full carbonation. 4 for effort.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Amber copper color...big floral and citrus hop aroma. Sweet, floral, fruity, rich hops...slight hop oil and candy cane. I had this on tap at the summer GF anniversary party and on cask at Hamilton’s a few days ago...lovely.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at the bistro’s 8th DIPA Fest; Nose of flowery hops; lightly hazed orange with a big off-white head; flavor is very hoppy with some pepperiness to it; finish nice hop bitterness.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
F’n A. This is hoppy. I had this on tap and Cask at Hamiltons 2nd Sat. This is so hoppy, my cheeks puckered for an hour. Just a wonderfully citrusy, hoppy, marijuana smelling beer. I love it.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap @ the new Liar’s Club in Alpine. Poured a faded golden orange with a foamy 2 finger off white head. Big grapefruit and pine aromas up front with a malty backdrop. Finish was less bitter than expected, its the only reason I didn’t give this beer a 4.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
on tap-pours a patchy off white head and slightly hazy amber color. Aroma is bitter hops-pine/citrus/some sweet (simcoe, cascade?). taste is dry bitter hops-pine/citrus/some sweet (simcoe, cascade?), floral, faint medium malt. Big. Sipping.
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