Rock Art Belvidere Big IPA

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Morrisville, Vermont USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle Pours a clear amber with a good off white head. The head is foamy and deminishing. Laces fairly well. Has a good hoppy aroma of spruce, citrus, bread, and bubblegum. Has a good carbonation. The flavor is hoppy but not super bitter. A smooth hoppiness. Has a watery texture. A medium body. A good finish with a good aftertaste. This is a pretty good beer, tasty but I like a little more bitterness.

22oz bottle. Poured a medium and slightly hazy amberish color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of floral hops with some citrus and toastiness. Tastes of citrus, lighter floralness, pine, and some toasted caramel.

22 oz bottle. Pours a hazy orange/amber color with a 1" receding off white head. Beer has a very thick appearance to it with bubbles and particles suspended in it. Nose is citrus/floral hops with a sweet malt background. Palate is heavy as you might guess from my appearance description. Taste is citrus hops balanced with malty sweetness. Big bitter finish.

Hazy amber in color with a lasting head. good lacing on the glass. Aroma is nowhere near as hoppy as I’d like a IIPA to be- some citrus and floral, but it seems more skewed towards the malt side: some toasted malts, caramel, and touches of phenolics, wet cardboard. Taste is also malty with pale and some sharp crystal malts, moderate hop character, subdued somewhat for the style, with a somewhat astringent bitterness.

pours from the taps at papago a hazy rich copper color. it is capped with a monster tan head which leaves lots of webs and spots of lace... pretty impressive, really. the nose is quite sweet and malty... notes of citrus pith, grapefruit and pine in the background. the palate is malty and sweet as well... (but it is 8%!) along with notes of light dustiness, citrus, faint pine and floral hops. it finishes and lingers tingly, spicy and floral. it is medium to full bodied but hop and alcohol dryness keep it from becoming thick... oddly numbing mouth feel from the hoppy tingle. it helps that the food pairing suggestion is spot on... 7/4/7/4/16/3.8

Bomber - Pours a quite dark and hazy orange-amber in color with almost no head or carbonation. Aroma is very hoppy with citrus/grapefruit, but balanced with a nice sweetish malty background. Flavor is initially strong with hops... plenty of citrus and pine... slightly sweet too. Eventually it is all about the hops, however, and those continue into the lingering finish. Does not have the palate/body that would truly define it as a great IIPA, but this is a good one. Rock Art continues to improve and impress with their "Extreme" series of brews.

Strong sweet citrus and pine hop aroma. Hazy orange color with a small white head, Sweet beginning with a lasting strong bitter finish.

Pours a caramel color with a nice tan head. Aroma is citrusy hops, malt, grapefruit, pine. Flavor is hops, grapefruit, pine, enough malt balance to balance it out. Nice big bitter finish. Very enjoyable IIPA, my favorite rock art thus far.

A big hoppy beer with an actually smooth finish. No one strong characteristic sticks out like a sore thumb (including alcohol) which is really quite easy to do with an IPA. Well blended. I think this is Rock Art’s best beer. Top notch. A great beer and a great value at $5 a bomber.

Bottle. Big hoppy aroma, more pine than the usual citrusy grapefruit. Deep orange amber body, small off-white head that laces nicely. Flavor is aggressively bitter, with hops and more hops, and like the nose, the flavor profile is heavily shaded toward pine, not citrus. Bitter finish. Alcohol, while evident, is not intrusive. Altogether a vivid and satisfying iipa, though perhaps not quite as well balanced as some.