 miketd (337), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Apr 18, 2008
Picked up at Oceanside Bevmo. Pour is a very nice bronze with a decent, off white head. Aroma is mostly grassy hops and some malt. Flavor is pretty bitter up front. A little malt sneaks in near the finish. Pretty tasty. Nice, but lacks any subtlety...I know, it’s a IIPA. It just seems too one dimensional.
AmEricanbrew (907), Left Coast, Louisiana, USA
Aug 6, 2008 Clear amber with a tan head. Mild aroma is sweet caramel with piney hops. Medium body. Flavor mirrors the smell with sweet caramel dashed with a pine and alcohol bitterness. Probably better to drink a fresh Sleighor
JB175 (1319), Holland, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 5, 2008 Darker amber pour with a med-lg head. Aroma is thick with piney/citrus/tropical fruit hops and some big, sugary malts. Flavor is sugary, sweet, and sticky with the hops pushed a bit too much to the background. Still quite tasty. Nice DIPA overall.
J_DUB (168), Beautiful Pasadena, California, USA
Aug 3, 2008 rich copper/amber hus with a soft fluffy off white head. Earthy hop flavor up front with a lingering sweet candy hop after taste. lightly hopped in my opinion for a double ipa.
RCL (999), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jul 20, 2008 Beautiful pour. Mango skin aroma. Slightly boozy, piney hops with more not-quite-ripe mango flavor.
Heathen (492), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
Jul 6, 2008 THOUGHTS: I had this before I joined ratebeer and finally found it again to rate. A really nice beer, but run of the mill DIPA. This was probably the first DIPA I ever had. It turned me on to the style, but I’ve found so many that are better since then. Fairly nice balance, but still a little cloying in the sweetness and the transition isn’t great.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a medium to dark orangy amber that was clear then cloudy when the yeast was added. It had a large, off-white head that mostly lasted and left excellent lacing. The aroma was moderate caramel malt, moderate to heavy pine, grapefruit and orange hops, which were the most dominant, and a slight band-aid or solvent aroma. The initial flavor was moderately sweet and bitter, and lightly acidic; while the finish was moderately sweet and acidic, and heavily bitter with a long duration. There was caramel malt and then pine and citrus hops. The medium body was syrupy with lightly fizzy carbonation and a light alcoholic and slightly metallic finish.
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