3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle @ home. Hazy, tangerine orange appearance with a small, off-white head. Quite fruity (mango, peach, grapefruit, lemon), a touch bitter, sweet malty aroma. Quite delicious, mango/grapefruity, citrusy, a touch bready, slight fusel alcohol, thick flavor. A touch syrupy, thick, sticky mouth feel with a fair amount of booziness. A bit over the top for me, as I didn’t like the booze, the mouth feel, or the head, but it is a fairly tasty brew.
4.2 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
On tap at Gourmet Haus. MASSIVE hops on a beautiful aroma of citrus and flowers. Incredible even if you could only smell it and not have a sip. Hazy deep honey with great full white head and nice lacing. Flavor of citrus and earth floor follow through in a well-balanced beer with bitterness, malt and hop flavor marrie well.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Complex and balanced IPA, excellent! A lot of hops and some citrus, some apricots as well
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4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from Binny’s. Poors golden with a white head. Smell is citrus and floral. Just like any good DIPA this has a great amount of hops. Taste is also citrus with heavy bitterness. This is a really good DIPA but not as good as Hop Slam but close.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
$7.99 for a 22 oz. bottle @Table and Vine. Stamp on neck reads 1/26/2012 in yellow lettering. Label states 10% ABV. Deep yellow gold color with lots of sediment particles in a slow poor. Soapy, web like lacing. Sweet malt and citrus hops nose. An explosion of hops flavors. Pick your hops combinations here because depending on the age and storage, you can run through the whole gambit here. Does this beer have complexity?? Yes, without question. A lingering, lasting bitterness that still leaves you with a fruit note at the backend. For my personal palate, it’s a bit too bitter. A very nice DIPA, up there with Hopslam and Dreadnaught
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
On tap at Parkway in Tacoma, WA: Wow, what an outstanding ale. Strong hop forward aroma and taste, to the point of being dank. A clear pour, mostly, with little spots of cloudiness, with a taste of citrus/fir and a crisp bite. Outstanding DIPA.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A very nice double from one of my favorite brewers. Pours a light amber with a thin lacing head. The aroma has a lot of citrus over a malty sweetness. The flavor starts sweet and then gives way to a big hop bite. The dopes who made that stupid commercial about bitter face had this one in mind.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Shared a 22oz bottle of this. Poured a clear copper color with a thick, fluffy off-white head. Aroma was piney citrus, with notes of grass and a touch of biscuit and caramel. Flavor was pretty darn tasty and I’m shocked that the beer was 11% abv.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Savannah, Ga - Habersham Beverage Warehouse (Habersham St.) - 22 oz bomber. The pour is suspended animation - almost looks like an orange colored candle. Thin, but sticky off-white head that leaves rings of lacing. Resiny, hoppy aroma with plenty spruce and pine goodness, hint of floral essence. Solid, rib-sticking bittersweet flavor with plenty of requisite grapefruit goodness, some nutty malty notes, a bit of fruitiness with some juicy apricots, mangoes and nectarines. Mouthfeel, thick, rich and sticky. Excellent IPA.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bomber. Tons of hop resin on the nose. Color is a hazy orange with tons of hop chunks. Taste is smooth, easy to drink, a little sticky on the tongue. pretty bitter, almost like grapefruit on steroids. Very good. I think I appreciate it more now that I can’t get it year round.
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