Hermitage Ale of the IMP

Brewed by Hermitage Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Jose, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Sampled on 11/27/2010. This imperial IPA pours a light top medium copper gold color from a 50cl bottle. Medium sized white foamy head with decent retention and nice lacing. The aroma is resinous and grapefruity hops. A medium bodied Imperial IPA. The malts are caramel and sweet, I guess, they are kind of overwhelmed by the hops. The hops are piney, piney like pliney! There might be some grapefruit here as well. A touch of malt sweetness comes out at the finish, but it’s mostly all piney hops. Not that that’s a bad thing. Definitely a big bad west coast IPA. Yet another 8% alcohol beer from Hermitage seems like all their beers are 8%. What’s up with that? Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is bitter.

Ack. Not much to say here. Aroma and taste have weak hops notes, no real balance, no citrus, no pine, no anything worth remembering.

0.5l - Nose of yeast. Seltzer feel and chalky but pleasant bitter finish remind me of a Belgian.

Bottle thanks to ericandersnavy. Amber pour with very little head. Nose of buttered bread, herbal hops, and spices. Flavors of cracker and bread with a decent hop bite.

A pretty spicy imperial ipa. Had a very big bite to it. Feel like the malts could have been a bit more smoothed out. I did like the hopping. Felt really raw and classic.

Pint (+) bottle from Hayduke. We enjoyed it together via facebook chat. Ron’s brother Rick joined in late and was hilarious. This beer pours hazy and ginger color with a big fluffy head that is light tan. A darker blob of foam formed and stayed until the last sip. The aroma is big citrus and caramel. The first sip is caramel sweetness but that soon changes to huge citrus bitterness. That bitterness grabs you by the throat and does not let go. Each sip is like this and the bitterness actually builds. Grapefruit tart citrus that is bitter as can be. This IIPA comes right at you and stays in your face. There is nothing subtle or really complex here. If there is complexity the bitterness hides it. Good stuff.

Bottle 500ml.

Light unclear medium to dark orange colour with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, dusty, light grass - flowers. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dry, dry bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110930]

Pours a cloudy golden amber Aroma of orange rinds. Overpowering hops that covers all other flavours

500 ml bottle: Pours a clear orange amber with a stringy-lacing white head. Has a fresh resiny piny hop nose with some light malty sweetness. Starts with pretty good fullness and lightly toasted caramel sweetness with a clean balance of resiny bittersweet hops. Finishes with some lingering bittersweetness. A pretty good double IPA.

Bottle. Hazy amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruit and grape fruit. Flavour is malt, little caramel, grapefruit, very bitter, fruit, pine and grass,

Courtesy fonefan. hazy amber with a off-white. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and rather hoppy - grapefruit and grapefruit. Flavor is quite sweet and very bitter. Dry and very bitter finish. 300911