 TBone (4566), Pori, Finland
Aug 27, 2007 Bottled (BBE 2006)
Dark amber color, huge brown off-white head. Good American hoppy aroma which is a bit sweet. Yeasty, sweetish hoppy and flowery. Nice malty background, a bit crisp carbonation. Good balance. Tasty IPA.
oh6gdx (5000), Vaasa, Finland
Aug 27, 2007 Bottled. Reddish amber colour, huge beige foamy head. Huge flowery, fruity and grassy hops in the nose along with slight caramelly and spicy notes. Flavour is very much the same with a sting of alcohol and even mild licorace in it. Slight yeastyness showing once it gets a bit warmer. Long spiced, hoppy and slightly licoracyish aftertaste. Very pleasant.
awaisanen (1100), Irvine, California, USA
May 20, 2007 From a 500mL Bottle. Generously shared by Chris at the 2nd Annual Woodshop Tasting. Tasted side-by-side with the Amarilla IPA. Pours a ruddy amber color, somewhat hazy, with a healthy head of sudsy off-white. Aroma of orangey citrus with a little bit of earthy spice. Some light graham cracker malt characters back. Light to medium bodied, crisply carbonated mouthfeel. A somewhat grassy hop character greets the tongue initially, along with some light dirty pine characters. Lightly caramelized, graham cracker malt flavors. Very thin on the backend, and seems to be considerably more oxidized than the Amarillo version. Shows promise of what was once a good IPA, but now is most likely a fond memory for those fortunate enough to have it fresh.
JohnC (1710), Mission Viejo, California, USA
Apr 29, 2007 A big thanks to cquiroga for bringing this beer to the Woodshop tasting at Stuffed Sandwich in San Gabriel, CA.
nice hop aroma, the flavor has a good balance between hops & malt. nice citrus & grassy notes
JorisPPattyn (4227), Antwerpen, Belgium
Dec 26, 2006 Near gushing to huge, dense & fine, pastel yellow head, resistant over near opaque, orange-amber beer. Hop onslaught with cookies, dry hopbales, intense lupulinearoma’s, flowery, and in the background, resiny as a wounded firtree. Somewhere a smell of sunflower oil. Again a very intense hopflavour. Flowery, nearly white wine-vinous at first, but going over in a dry-viscous resinflavour. Extremely hoppy; unidimensional but not unbalanced. The backing underneath is there, but cannot really contribute in flavour. Retronasal I pick up some bitter chocolate. Syrupy because of the hopoils, well-bodied. Hopflavours keep lingering forever, ending a bit metallic. An IPA with no compromise, a "press on regardless" kind - oh, no, that was a British hillclimb, I remember. One for the die-hard hopheads. Thanks to Carlo and Jeppe.
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