 Oakes (6819), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Oct 8, 2005 Updated: Aug 1, 2006
Slightly hazy gold colour. The hop aroma is bright and clean, all citrus and florals. Fresh bread provides the backbone of the beer, with tropical fruit, citrus and floral hop notes. The bitterness is assertive - almost too resiny but nice. A bit of an envelope pusher in the way it approachs the West Coast IPA theme, this is a well-constructed beer just inside the boundaries of reason.
mcbackus (619), Merritt Island, Florida, USA
Aug 20, 2008 bottle shared by JMFG: pours a georgeous golden honey with a nice white head. aroma is the perfect hops of a mixture of citrus and earth slight grapefruit and awesome malt. flavour is a great full of hop bitterness earth and citrus twirl together to form almost perfection of the hop, the malt then comes through to give a good balance, fantaastic beer.
pepsican (667), the beer wastelands of, Iowa, USA
Aug 20, 2008 Amber pour with a very thin white head. Pine and citrus hops as well as a bit of honey in the aroma. Flavor is pine hops, herb, caramel, toffee. Finised very bitter, dry. Only complaint is I’d prefer a bit more carbonation...
Beerman6686 (654), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 20, 2008 Poured a hazy orange color with a big off white head. Aroma is incredible, fresh pine trees and grapefruit, slightly under perfect. Flavor is also very tasty, but is a little disappointing for such a great aroma. Excellent pine hop flavor but a little light on the palate and would have gave it a 10 on flavor if it had a little more bitterness
kosko20 (72), Bemidji, Minnesota, USA
Aug 19, 2008 I’m comparing this to Blind Pig, well because BP was incredible. This is not quite as good but still an awesome brew. Aroma isn’t as strong and nice as I hoped for but still good. Hops and pine balanced well with notes of citrus. Appearance is a light gold copper that gets darker as it reaches the top near the thick white head. Flavor is actually on the lighter spectrum of a DIPA. Light on hops, pine and citrus. Palate is also a little weak for DIPA, good bitterness but not as strong as I like to see. Overall its a really good beer but hoping to be more impressed...as if a 4.2 isn’t good enough?
masonjer (429), Lansing, Michigan, USA
Aug 19, 2008 Poured orange from the bottle. Huge juicy orange and bitter hop on the nose. Taste is nice big grapefruit, more sweet ripe orange, pine, nice sweet malt character. Big and full, just what I was hoping it would be. Floral hops, sticky and delicious.
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