3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Growler… Clear amber ale with a large, frothy, white head. Good retention. The nose furnishes piney, resiny, earthy hops flanked by hints of caramel, fruitcake and pear. Full-bodied with stinging carbonation. Toffee and caramel malts provide an excellent stage for the tropical, citrusy, rindy hops to show off. Lengthy, bittersweet finish… with the bitterness lingering on and on and on. Growler courtesy of richiesd!
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Cask at GBBF 2011. Golden orange color. Pungent juicy hop aroma with mango, elderberry, grapefruit and orange. Firm smooth bitterness in the flavor with complex tropical fruit character. Dangerously drinkable, one of the best double IPAs.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2011. Pours a pale golden amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity hoppy piney aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter piney grapefruit flavor. Has a malty hoppy bitter piney grapefruit finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the GBBF 2011. Golden with a small white head. Hoppy aroma of grass, perfumed citrus and herbs. Dry and hoppy flavour with grass and pine. Quite bitter and also quite elegant as cask ale
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2009 on Draft. Aroma: Ripe guava, with just a hint of durian funk
Palate: Full bodied
Flavor: Starts with tropical fruit syrup and finishes long good resinous hop that supports the malt plus ends with a full, rounded mouth feel and lightly roasted caramel malt.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught @ Tadg’s, Tokyo. Rated on 09.09.2011
Fresh and hoppy aroma has lots of exotic fruits, but at the same time it is a bit light. Flavour is sweet and rather hoppy with resin and fruits. Good DIPA but too sweet, again.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium orange colour with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, pine, grapefruit, grass. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110802]
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
2nd August 2011
GBBF Cask. Reported at a ’mere’ 9.5% here. Hazy gold beer, residual white head. Nice citrussy nose with some cat piss! Smooth semi dry palate. Intense Citra come Nelson hops with a little dried fruits. Some tropical fruits buried in there as well. Finishes smooth and semi dry. Nice DIPA.
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