Midnight Sun Obliteration IV

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Date: August 29, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: hazy orange, fine off white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: light sweet citrus aroma, crystal sweetness, grapefruit
Flavor: light citrus flavor, plenty of bitterness, long bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

(22oz bottle, courtesy of blutt59) Pours a clear golden body with a medium white head. Aroma of grapefruit, pine, grass, caramel,pineapple, and some herbs. Flavor of hops (herbal, floral, citrus, pine) and caramel malt with a dry, bitter finish.

Bottle thanks to blutt59. Pours with a small, white head and a hazy golden body. Aroma of marijuana, orange and caramel. Very strong hops. Taste is hoppy, dank and sticky with tons of citrus and a back bone of caramel. Light carbonation, and a bit thin.

Bottle. Pours clear orange with an average, rocky, white head, lasting with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (cereal, grain), heavy hop (flowers, citrus, pine), average yeast (sweat) with notes of pineapple, pear, and peach. Medium bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

bottle, clear golden pour with slight foam, aromas of lemon and spice, flavor of bitter lemons, sweet hoppy, finish is good

22. Thanks, SuzyGreenberg! Pours a hazy dark orangeish amber. Dense but shallow off-white head. Huge tropical fruit nose: grapefruit, pineapple, mango. Creamy medium body. Piney, grapefruity, toasty mid-palate with a big resiny finish. These huge hops combine with the dense, somewhat mild but still perceptible brown-bread wheat notes so well. It’s just a natural match. Great beer.

Poured a hazed orange amber color with a large off-white head. Big citrus forward hop aroma. Pretty much covers all of the malt. Citrus flavor with a hop bitterness that starts first thing and last long after everything else is gone. Sweet citrus juice appears shortly in the middle. Long moderately bitter dry finish. Medium bodied. A little warming in the chest.

This bottled brew from JSquire a rating party poured a large sized head of foamy white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a slightly hazy softly carbonated orange colored body. The aroma wasof mild hops. The crisp mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The strong flavor contained notes of sharp yummy hops. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.

UPDATED: AUG 20, 2009 Clear amber with a white head. Sweet, pungent, fresh ganja bud aroma. Medium body with a smooth mouthfeel. Big ass bitter grapefruit hop flavor on a neutral malt base, only wheat i found here was in the smooth texture. Hop heads may love this brew, but it is a bit off balance for my palate.

Bottle:   Vibrant amber yet slightly hazy, large rocky off-white head, very nice lacing, sticks around for a while.   Quite piney on the nose.   Hoppy, but the pine seems to dominate.   Resiny, citrus peel, with what I can best describe as the acidity of cat urine.   Its faint, but I smell it.   Not as strong on the tongue as I thought.   Hoppy, but not overly done.   Good malt base, slightly wheaty.   Could stand to be a bit maltier, but as is I would say this makes a great 1¾ IPA.   Not sure what it is, but over time all these HUGE IPAs seem not as big anymore.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate to full.   Lingering citrus zest and hops.   The thing I like about this is that it is flavorful without being overly bitter.   Malts are good, well balanced, but could stand to be a smidgen more.   Expensive beer, but I think worth a shot.