Ninkasi Tricerahops Double IPA

Brewed by Ninkasi Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Eugene, Oregon USA

From a bottle on Hendrick’s Hill--thanks Lucy and Jared. Somewhat cloudy medium orange-gold with a very thin, fine, white head. Fruity, grainy malt aromas with peachy yellow stonefruit hops notes and a slight grassiness. Flavor begins dry with a burst of dark hops flavors and fruit--more stonefruit--along with orange. Malt sweetness follows with some grain flavors. The body is firm but graceful and finishes with some grain flavors and a bit of alcohol warmth.

Pours a nice copper - lots of bitter but no florals or spicy hops. Aroma is bready yeasty flavor with some hops. Mediocre IIPA. SECOND ANALYSIS: Just got ahold of a fresh bottle. This has a hop profile reminiscent of Uberhoppy, but a little less. Very balanced, very floral and very fresh and green tasting.

Courtesy of fishingnet. Pours deep gold with off white head. The aroma is grapefruit, spice hops and nice layer of sugar sweet malts. The taste has a ton of hoppiness with grapefruit, orange peel and thick citrus juiciness. Midway the sweet sugar malts show up and remain a minor note under the load of hoppiness. It ends with lingering grapefruit hops mixing with orange juice, tangelo and just the right level of malty sweetness to bring it all together.

22 oz bottle via Hagen. Pours a semi-hazy amber with a medium size head. Nose is full of floral resiny hops....grapefruit, lemon, and pine. Tastes like it smells with some fruity esters and some orange..is all about the hops though. Body is light for an IIPA...sort of reminds me of Hop Slam in that aspect. Carbonation is just right. This one is very well done, quite hoppy without being too bitter or astringent, just the way i like!

Thanks to miketd: This pours a hazy, vibrant orange. Dominating aroma of fresh citrus, some pine. Tastes clean, earthy, and citrusy. Very well balanced, and delicious. No doubt the Tricerahops would be one badass herbivore.

Frothy head leading behind some clumpy lacing. Pours a clear golden color. Aroma is a bouquet of hops, heavy on grapefuirt and floral. Loads of cascade usage perhaps? Nice citrus touch on the hop taste flagging into a well balanced bitter end, all with a solid enough malt backing to avoid it seeming like just hop water. Really nice body and does not feel its 9% weight at all. High marks.

Bottle, kieferuga somehow snuck this into my box after our tasting, thanks! Amber pour, with a little white head. Aroma is mandarin oranges, citrus hops, and some sweet malt. Flavor is the same, both sweet and biscuity malt, lots of nice mandarin orange flavor, and some more resinous bittering hops. Pretty delicious beer.

On tap at Naked City. Pours copper with a decent off-white head. Grapefruity hops in the nose. Very hoppy citrus taste with adequate caramel malt backing.