3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Ithaca Beer Co. Pours a clear copper orange with a thin head that quickly faded to a ring. Pleasant aroma of oranges, grapefruit and pine. The flavor was again oranges, grapefruit and pine along with a bit of sweet malt. Some lingering bitterness at the finish. The alcohol was very well hidden with only a bit of warmth after the swallow. Medium bodied.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 17, 2009
Date: July 17, 2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade
Appearance: cloudy dark yellow, nice fine white head
Aroma: sweet grapefruit aroma
Body: creamy body puncuated by sharp carbonation stabs
Flavor: sweet and hoppy flavor, nice mellow grapefruit with a piny accent, mellow bitter finish, solid sweet hop flavor lasts through to the last sip
Overall: a very fine double ipa
Date: April 29, 2006
Mode: growler
Source: tasting
Aroma: faint aroma
Flavor: flavor sweetness is tempered, lasting bitterness
Overall: a bit mellower than the bottle
Date: February 10, 2007
Mode: dry hopped cask with oak chips
Source: extreme beerfest
Aroma: a little grassy aroma with only a hint of the oak
Flavor: a big more of the sweet citrus flavor is brought out maybe by a touch of vanilla in the oak
Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Notes: Pours an almost neon orange color body with a fluffy, but small, white head. Pretty nice lacing as well. Lots of bitter, bitter hops in there. An almost sweet, sugar, candy smell. Whiff of alcohol as well. Almost like a druid’s herbal concoction, chocked full of fruits, flowers and grass. Kind of takes your breath away on the first sip. Starts low and crescendos. Begins pretty smooth then rockets into bitter city. Kind of astringent end, but doesn’t last too long. This beer should probably be sipped. A little bit different than what I’m used to in Double IPAs, but very tasty nonetheless. An RBI double for Ithaca.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a clear orange colour with a medium sized head with poor retention, but great lacing. The nose is of strong, slightly sour manderine orange and overly sweet malts. The flavour is as sweet and malty as it is hoppy. The hops are fruity and then piney and citrusy in the finish. Sticky sweet malt and sugar also accompany the hops in the finish. The hops seem a bit flat in the taste as they are overpowered by malty sweetness, sugar and alcohol. The hops are there, they just don’t pop like they should in a double IPA. I feel the flavour profile in this brew is more like a barleywine.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle: Intense aroma upon opening of Hops and sweeeet malts. Heavy pour yeilds a fluffy head with swiss cheese sticky lacing. The deep golden color along with the intese aroma sings the siren song of "consume me now"! Medium body is surprisingly brief with light aftertaste ofyou guessed it...hops. Many thanks to the slob for asking me to hunt this critter down for him.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 oz bottle via bmartin08 (thanks!). Pours a very hazy amber with a small beige nose is orange and pine with fusels. Taste starts out with some caramel, then some orange, pineapple, and piny hops. Aftertaste is bittersweet. Body is medium/full. Carbonation is medium. This is a well-done balanced east coast IIPA, not sure why it is rated so low...
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark copper, clear but dense, small bubbles, slowly rising. Almost no head. Nose of oranges, hops, sweet malt, and alcohol. Taste more sequential than integrated and balanced. First impression is a huge slam of cascades, with great aromatics ... pine tar and oranges. Next impression is sweet malts, maybe sugar too, then overwhelmed with a slow alcohol burn. The finish is bitter, bitter hops. Dead flat in the mouth, and some real carbonation would have countered both the alcohol and the bitterness. This seemed to me more of an overhopped barleywine than a double IPA. Not especially interesting, which is surprising for my favorite style.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 oz bottle from Secret Santa. Citrus orange peel and sweet malt on the nose. Orange body with off white head. Dry citrus vine and pine flavor to start with. As you get to the middle to finish beer has a thick sugar malt coating along with a good dose of sweetness. Maybe just little to sweet but still a good beer.
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