3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Originally rated 08/18/11. Pours very dark amber/brown. Nice tight yellow-ish tan head with quite a bit of carbonation. Smell is quite sweet, like Summerlan Sweets Blueberry table syrup. Very heavy dark molasses like malts, some honey, no real hopiness that I’m familiar with popping out. Taste is lots of that blueberry, lots off molasses, toffee, kind of a mash of white grapes, figs, alcohol flavour but 0 burn. Lots of hop bitterness. Mouthfeel is like velvet - this beer is definitely a step outside any IPA/IIPA i’ve ever had.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Provad på ölföreningen 2009 i ölstilstestet. Intensivt kryddig citrusaktig doft av US-humle. Ren, tuff, besk, fruktig och en aning syrlig smak med tydlig US-humle. Ordentligt besk, men jag hade nog trott att 100 IBU skulle kännas mer. Bra relativt torr och stram DIPA.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
0.5l bottle #402 @ The Bishops Arms (Vasagatan), Stockholm. Pours a dark hazy copper body with a big bubbly and lacing just off-white head. The aroma is malty and quite sweet. You can really sense that this one has been stored for a few years! Some nice caramel and cortex leaking through here as well and hints of honey and a subtle alcohol touch. Lovely. It has a average to lively carbonation level and a really nice slick and oily mouthfeel. Flavors are dimmed down quite a lot, and considering this has been stored for 3 years it’s quite understandable. Still, it has a nice caramelish and malty touch blended with some oldish hops. Actually some licorice hints in the finish on this one. Quite nice stuff, and I’m really glad I got to taste this before it got completely extinguished.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500 ml bottle. Big, fruity barley wine nose, with caramel, dried fruits (plum, fig), big and juicy. Cloudy, muddy, dark amber brown. Dry, hoppy flavor with wood, big bitterness, dry dark chocolate, pine, plum, umeboshi. Nicely dry. Good stuff. More like a barley wine.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Amber, hazy,average and mostly diminishing head. Moderate to full, malty and sweetish aroma, tropical fruitiness, grapefruit hoppyness and caramel. Body is medium to full, malty and sweetish flavor, piney and grapefruit hoppyness, some caramel and fruitiness. Finish is average to full, malty and sweetish, fruity with grapefruit hoppyness, some caramel and fruitiness with some toffee. Sweet DIPA, too fruity and caramel sweetish for me.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500 mL bottle, split with Matts_Property, pours murky dark orange / amber / brown with a medium beige head. Aroma screams tropical fruits, with mango, apricot, peaches and tangerine all prevalent, along with citrus hops, grapefruit and sufficiently backed caramel malts. Flavour is quite complex for an IPA, with mango, apricot, peaches and pungent grapefruit, and heaps of citrus hops, backed by a barrage of caramel malt. Finishes on a slightly bitter, grapefruity note. Most excellent.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
500ml split with mcberko. Pours an interesting hazy or murky brown/orange. Looks untreated. Thick ring of foam around the edge of the glass. Aroma of candied sugar, caramel malts, lots of tropical fruits. Flavour is of sweet tropical fruits and caramel and soft to begin with, then the bitterness slowly crescendos to a beautiful finish. Flavour isn’t as hoppy as I expected. Nicely balanced, complex layers, Keeps you interested. Gorgeous.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500ml bottle @ Pikkulintu, Helsinki
Pours dark orange with a nice smooth foamy head. Taste is fruity and sweet with notes of malts and hops. Bitter, fruity and sticky finish. Alcohol warms nicely. Quite nice, almost barley wine like IIPA.
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