 rkuhnel (1135), Eureka, California, USA
Oct 7, 2008 From a 22 oz bottle this poured a rich copper color with a good sized off-white head and good lacing. Nose is of citrus and pine hops with caramel malts. Creamy mouthfeel. Favor is quite bitter and is of grapefruit and the finish is long and bitter. Overall pretty good.
marcus (1051), Sacramento, California, USA
Oct 1, 2008 This copper ale poured with a thick beige head and a floral aroma. It’s very hoppy with lots of citrus and pine lending a familiar northwest hophead aura. There is also a tasty caramel malt base that leaves a thick finish on one’s palate.
skoisirius (480), Seattle, Washington, USA
Sep 24, 2008 22 oz bottle. Pours a see through golden copper with a small light tan head that diminishes quickly. Fairly resin filled piney nose. The flavor is a huge continuation of the nose, very resiny and piney with a huge malt backing. These flavors do a tremendous job of thickly coating the pallet before flushing a deep citrus bitter end through the finish. 9.1% is not too detectable, but is hinted at. Nice work over all!
blutt59 (776), Dallas, Texas, USA
Sep 6, 2008 bottle, golden orange pour with large tan head, nose is malty pine, flavor is pine, malty grapefruit and a sticky thick finish
Brigadier (900), Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA
Aug 23, 2008 22 oz bottle
This was an over the top unbalanced imperial IPA. I’ve had it for a few months in the fridge. I don’t think that caused it to go off the rails so much. Other beers in the style seem to hold up well in the same conditions. Thanks to whomever bonused it. However unless the other Reaper Ales are brewed better I’m not going to revisit this brewery.
Aroma / Appearance - A billowing two finger head surged above a carbonated bronze body. Orange peels, lemon and pine blasted the dust out of my nose. Strongly hopped this was about as extreme as it can get. Somewhere in the debris field was a trace of maltiness.
Flavor / Palate - The bitterness overwhelms any other aspects of the flavor profile. It is strong enough that I even got tea dregs at one point. A one dimensional hop bomb I ended up leaving half the bottle alone. If I had another one I would just age it until it turned into a mellow barleywine. Perhaps then it would be more drinkable.
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