4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Hazy, copper colored pour form a 12 oz bottle. Thin head. Aroma of caramel, malt, citrus, floral hops. Nicely balanced malty flavor offset by smooth hoppiness. THe name made me expect and over the top exercise in sheer hoppiness, but this was rather a pleasant surprise – a somewhat sweet, full bodied IPA with pronounce but well balanced hops. Very good.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz bottle from shawnm213, thanks Shawn. Dark gold pour with a white head. Citrus aroma, a little grapefruit maybe.Big hop bite right up front, not very balanced at all, but still ok, the hop bite fades pretty quickly, as it went it on though I noticed it stuck to tongue with a faint hop flavor, very ineresting.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Some bonus points for the bottle. Not a bad ipa. gotta try this on draft some day.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
I’m going to start this off real honest and say that this is not a beer for hop-heads. This looks great, orange decent lacing on the head but the smell? Something funny like butter..the taste was not really hoppy at all, buttery malts and I’m sure I sound like a jerk but this just wasn’t hoppy by any stretch of the imagination.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 02-21-2009 04:50:12
1.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 3/20
12 oz bottle. Somewhat sweet aroma, but a very hoppy, very bitter taste. Not a beer I would drink again.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Clear amber with a rocky head. Fairly mild aroma is pale malts and floral hops. Smooth medium body. Decent flavor is citrusy hops with some pale malt sweetness. Not too bad.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled. The body was dark bronze amber with a light khaki head. The aroma was strong grapefruit with some almonds. There was also some almond. The taste was almonds with some toast. There were also some hints of pine. An earthy, dirty finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from hopdog. Cool bottle art. I really like the depiction of the stoned hop bud. Kudos. Pours copper more or less with a great lasting white head and sticky lacing. Aroma is very earthy with leafy herbal hops and a good amount of malty sweetness. The flavor up front is nice and earthy, piney and herbal with moderate bitterness, a touch of metal which detracts from the nice hop profile, and a decent malt backbone that came across as doughy more than anything else really. Too bad there was the metallic aspect, as I really liked the tree like hops, as they left a nice zingy gritty mouth feel.
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