 Snojerk321 (943), San Diego, California, USA
May 4, 2008
On tap @ the 2nd Anniversary party. Poured a beautiful burnt orange amber with a fluffy off white head......great lacing. Nose was piny and a little musty, some citrus as well. Not as bitter as I was expecting, (opposite of Hop 15). Finish was malty with a light hop bite, great stuff!
Beershine (1201), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Aug 20, 2008 At Vero. Clear dark orange-amber. Chewy hop aroma. Rusty hops, burnt sweetness, and surprisingly roasty. Balanced and well-structured with a sturdy body.
zathrus13 (1058), Mount Laurel, New Jersey, USA
Aug 19, 2008 Orange pour, with a white head. Aroma is hops, caramel, and malt. Flavor is grepefruity hops, caramel, malt, and grass.
AllAboutStout (451), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Aug 19, 2008 Pours a dark amber in color with about an inch of head. A lot less head appearing compared to what I expected and seen in other DIPA’s. Smell is citrusy hops. Taste is slightly citrus, but the most noticeable trait is the bitterness. It really comes in on the back end and rips the tongue. Even for a few seconds after you swallow. There is quite the bitterness left over. This is a bruiser. I prefer the Hop15, but this beer was a statement.
xmarcnolanx (636), Kirkwood, Missouri, USA
Aug 19, 2008 Opens with a quiet shh! Crap, I don’t think that there is either a large amount of carbonation to this beer or there is something jacked up with the capping of my specific bottle.
Aroma is very hoppy. Orange, pine, sourness, caramel malts.
This is nice, but I can tell there is something wrong.
Taste is slightly sweet, very hoppy: orange, pine. Sweet caramel malts on the finish and alcohol.
Wow, not infected, but tastes like a hoppy BSA.
Very resinous, piney on the finish with alcohol accentuating the hops.
Solid, but not amazing.
Additional notes:
Very, very resinous and lingers like a motherfucker.
Harsh alcohol and hop combination that just sticks to the taste buds and destroys the palate.
I think the sweet malt, hops, and alcohol leads to a cotton candy flavor.
CharlesDarwin (1375), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 18, 2008 22oz Bottle. Thanks Andy! Spicy, rich hop oil aroma. Dense. Theres a waft of fennel-spiced bread, sweetgrass and almond skins. Spicy, blended back with a touch of floral quality. Nice. Pours a translucent darker gold, with a frothy soap of off-white head. Flavor is dense, dense, dense. A real rich amalgam of bread-like spice, oils, and fragrant musky perfume. Again, flavor stays on the grassy and spicy edge of things, but wanders into some Atufalo mango flesh, passionfruit rind, and macadamia nut. Again, hops amalgamted to the point of confusing grapefruit with bread and yeast. Finishes very long on terse dune grasses. Lays back from the resin, turpentine and planty characters, which i enjoy. A really good show of hops as spice and a good balance of hops for flavor and hops for bittering. Enjoyable certainly. May have finished a touch sticky, but it wasn’t distracting. Alcohol heat only fueled the hop fire, in my opinion. A classy example.
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