3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/2022 ounce bottle. Nice carbonated pour. Hoppy and boozy. Grapefruit. Pine. Big nose. Super bitter. Nails the popular style of big Double IPAs.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Amber pour with white head. Aroma is big citrus and piney hops, malt in the background. Taste is the same - as mentioned below a big west coast style DIPA. I quite like it. I found there was just enough balance to cut the extremely bitter hops. Still couldn’t drink a lot, but quite tasty.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Big, piney, rich, and malty. Very well balanced hops and malt. However, it doesn’t come across as too sweet, bitter, or alcoholic. An impressive achievement.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
La robe est dorée foncée. Quelqu’un pourrait bien dire orangée et cela pourrait aussi être approprié. Je constate une belle tête mousseuse. Elle est solide et laisse quelques traces derrière son passage. Le nez est frappant. D’abord, par sa force houblonnée. Je capte des parfums d’oranges très amères. Je sens des fleurs printanières assez fortes et mes narines sont complètement assaillies par un bouquet résineux assez puissant. On dirait bien que ma bouteille est fraîche! Les malts sucrés se font aussi entendre. Fort heureusement, les céréales offrent un coussin bien confortable à toute cette verdure. Le goût est très amer. L’impact des houblons est considérable. Il y a des notes d’oranges et de pêches qui se cachent derrière cette forêt de jeunes conifères. Dans cette histoire royalement houblonnée, le sucré des malts est un valet un peu niais qui arrive toujours au bon moment. En bouche, le liquide montre une superbe rondeur. La texture m’apparaît très huileuse mais facilement acceptable. Peut-être que cette douce montée des bulles y est pour quelque chose. La finale, profondément résineuse et véritablement intense, fait littéralement exploser ce qui reste de rondeur maltée. Une bière étonnante qui ne fait pas son pourcentage élevé d’alcool. Facile à boire. Cette bière est dangereuse.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Hazy golden with a thick white head. Aroma is big grapefruit hops. Flavor is big hops and a lot of grapefruit. A little oily in the finish. Overall, it delivers what’s promised. Big hops, not much balance. But, if you are craving a hop bomb, this one is quite good.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Chewy wintergreen citrus hop flavor with dry crisp finish and alcohol presence in the palate. Definitely west coast!
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap @GarricksHeadPub. Just as the name implies. A huge West Coast hop bomb lacking any attempt at balance or subtlety. All citrus and resiny bitterness. Medicine for hop heads.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Poured from a bottle. Clear copper with a big fluffy head and good lacing. Aroma is outstanding - lots of pine and citrus, a little tropical fruit. As promised, taste is strongly bitter throughout - piney with some grapefruit. The finish is dry and the bitterness lingers. Solid mouthfeel. Overall, a really interesting brew, but it’s one of those that make you pucker up, certainly not a session beer.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Amber beer with a thick, beige head. Nice lacing. Aroma is all hops. Flavor has a good malt backbone, caramel flavors, with tons of grassy and hay hop flavors and a burst of pine. Finish is dry and bitter. My kind of beer.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
My Bottom Line:
Sand, sugar and alcohol are amazingly whipped up into a coherent whole in this very bitter, resinous strong ale.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A creamy head of foam covers the misty pale amber.
-The soft, natural carbonation provides a surprisingly fluffy, comfortable mouthfeel. A godsend for such a rough flavor profile.
-A few sulphur-y edges are found in the aroma.
-Hops could have been brighter. This is not of the same caliber as their other IPAs.
-An appropriately-named strong ale which offers all the flavors you want from a SD IPA, but in a coarse manner. And sometimes, that’s plain fun.
Bottle.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap at Tap an Mallet. They ran out of Stone IRS, so I tried this. Clear copper pour with a thin white head. Piney, grapefruit, citrus, and earthy hoppiness with sweeter caramel malt backing it. Hops bitter the front of the tongue with citrusy grapefruit, light peach with caramel malt mid palate with a bitter end. Great stuff.
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