Midnight Sun Obliteration II

Formerly brewed at Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Shared at the roundup. Nice bright orange color with a bubbly head. Aroma is pretty big. Huge citrus aroma and taste with some more fruit, slightly tropical. MS brews are nice and complex. Fairly balanced and has a little sweet profile too. Surprisingly drinkable for so much hops. Lingers a bit on the tongue but not too bad.

Personally this one was my favorite of the series so far (we’re on 4 currently). Great hop and malt profile. I drank this fresh and a year old. Both were enjoyable on many levels.

Thanks to Kan for this one. Murky orange with medium white pancake head. Oxidized hops and malt aroma with sherry, weird spice, spruce? lavender? caramel malt. Flavor is oxidation, spruce, big bitterness, big pine, medium sweet with dry finish. Medium body and good carbonation. Pretty intense, pretty bitter.

22oz bottle from pantanap. pours hazy gold with white head. nose of citrus, grass, and green. flavors are green, citrus, and grassy, some spruce too. not the freshest but still good.

22oz bottle from larry......pours a semi-transparent apricot brown with a thin white head..... aroma of green hops and pine along with an underlying peppery spice.....hops are a little stale but finishes with a piney bitterness. midway through comes the caramel malt due to aging. peppery spice finish with an astringent finish. lively carbonation.

Bomber. Poured medium-to-pale golden with a rather short-lived cap of white head.. some legs were visible on the glass. The aroma was primarily hoppy with resiny pine and floral notes leading.. sweet pale malts and just a little light fruit backed it.. some good character in there, but nothing outstanding. The flavor was similar with a non-descript pale base supporting heavy and scratchy bitterness around (citrus joined some floral here).. finished very bitter and not all that tasty. Medium-bodied and bitter on the palate.. didn’t really come together.

Bottle courtesy of bu11zeye poured into a tulip. Popping the cap produces a white foam that quickly climbs out of the bottle. After getting quickly over to the glass, it pours a bright, hazy golden orange with a fluffy white head that hangs around as a cap for quite a while and leaves very good lacing. Aroma is very sweet with more citrus and floral hops than I was expecting for a beer of this age, lots of grapefruit and oranges. There is also a healthy dose of sweet caramel malts in addition. The taste has a pretty hefty hop profile given the age with some citrus hop tingling on the palate up front, lemons and grapefruit especially. The malt backbone is there but less sweet than the aroma suggests. Big floral hop finish. The mouthfeel is slick with a good bit of hop stickiness. It finishes very dry and leaves a big hoppy bitterness on the palate. This one really stands up well over time and I certainly wish I had tasted it fresh as it would have been massively hoppy. Still, very good and thanks to Markus for the opportunity.

Bottle. Pours an orange golden body with a white head. Hop character is sweet at first with citrus and pine, then very grapefruit and mouth drying with a huge bitter finish. This is truely palate obliteration and im not a hop head.