3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20On draft at College Inn Pub. Aroma is heavy with malty sweetness (caramel, candy). Resin from the hops. Clear amber color, minimal head. The "malt backbone" here really asserts itself and actually dominates the taste for me. Hop bitterness is present on the finish, but is overpowered by the malty sweetness. Medium/full body, slick, with average carbonation. Overall: A little sweet for my taste, and a full pint feels like about 4oz too many for how much of this I want to drink in one sitting.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
650 ml bottle. Pours a dark amber with light head. Aromas of brown sugar, spruce, and malts. Piney hops flavors but with a good dose of roasted malts plus grapefruit, caramel, and toast. Big.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle to pint glass
Aroma if tropical fruits, grapefruit, and notes of spruce and pine. Appearance is a deep copper with a nice 1cm thick creamy head with nice effervescence. Taste is hoppy and bitter but balanced with a nice malty sweetness. It's medium bodied, creamy, and a little oily.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle share. Cloudy burnt orange. Aroma is such a great balance of caramel and pine. Candy! Flowery. Smells awesome! Taste is caramel and pine. Nice long dry finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
beer 4 of 5 from the "I Had to Not use Hot Water for 4 Months to Afford Beer" Review tour. Aside from the Laughing Dog beer the tour has been a high priced bust - hopefully this is the turn around point. Poured out a thin creamy head but its got world class silty fine lacing. 1/6th of the way in and I feel this. That is a great sign as its 11:30pm.... There is a healthy dose of caramel aroma, cantelope, tangerine, pineapple, mellow pine. Soft nose got better. The taste is pretty good - has a hard bite almost to be confused with alcohol. Pine, pineapple, resin stuff, strong citrus, tropical goodness with thickness, caramel and plenty of it. It’s an interesting iipa version, mellow harsh, all over the place. Overall soft mouthfeel. I think - no, I know that my cat wants to make sweet love to me.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
I LOVE HOPS!!!!!! Light crystal clear reddish brown complete with a thick creamy cap floating on top. The smells of this smells good like good smells. Hoppy and smooth, tons of caramel, cream cheese, candied pine??? I think i just made that up. This smell, this smell, this smell is da shit!! Taste is powerful, sweet malts, melon, lemon, massive resin, astringent hiding in the finish. WOW!! This is awesome! So flavor!! Mango, possible orange. So very awesomely bitter. Dear GOD this random beer i picked up is so good. This episode of American Dad is screwed up beyond belief. I like this beer and it has gone straight to my head and then some.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Props to my local favorite DIPA from Sound Brewing in Poulsbo. Rich, sweet malt backbone to balance heaps of delicious hops. Could use a few more IBU’s. Dry hopped to the point of earthiness. Love this beer.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
22oz Bottle purchased from the brewery. Pours a hazy brown with not much head. Full hoppy bitterness and a little bit citrusy. The hop flavors linger afterwards and there's no harshness to it at all. A great double IPA.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Serving: from bottle--purchased at The Beer Junction.
Aroma: moderate-to-heavily piney hoppy.
Appearance: large, frothy, off-white, initial head with good lacing and mostly diminishing longevity. Cloudy, orange body.
Taste: lightly bitter initial flavor and moderate-to-heavily bitter finish with long duration.
Palate: full body with watery texture and soft carbonation.
Overall: interesting. I didn’t notice any bitterness in the initial flavor, but it quickly kicks in and becomes increasingly bitter over time. It’s never harshly bitter like many beers in this class. Exceptional.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Crisp, hazy and nicely tinted bronze and amber coloured body with a bit of a ruby glow at the bottom with a perfect, two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pungent pineapple, citrus, piney and sweet hops with a lot of honey and resin noticeable and quite a bit of alcohol. Full-bodied; Super malty at first with a resinous bite of hops, some pineapple and floral hop notes also come through, but a lot of sugars and even more alcohol. Aftertaste shows a lot of all these tastes with a hint of fruit, some piney bitterness and a great sweet finish complete with the hop flavours really going strong. Overall,a very nice Imperial IPA, I just would have preferred a smaller format bottle, but I know this is what they do out West, and at least they charge a respectable price. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Bottleworks in Seattle, Washington on 11-January-2013 for US$7.49 sampled at home in the real Washington on 06-February-2013 two days before leaving for Washington state again.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 8/20
Poured from the faucet at The Eastside Tav in Oly, WA. I am horrible at describing tastes, so I will just put this in the stanky-sticky-resiny hop category and leave it at that.
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