Stoudts Double IPA

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

[Bottle, <2 months old] Pours deep amber with a small off-white head. Aroma is really strange, and when cold reminds me of rubber cement and green apples. It becomes more herbal and tolerable when it warms, but it is still pretty unappealing. Taste is sweeter than I thought with some strange apple notes, a little alcohol, malt in the finish, and very little hop bitterness. A little muddle and nothing crisp about it. This also becomes better as it warms, and at above normal drinking temps (at least for what I drink my IIPAs at) it becomes ok, with a lot of raisin. Fairly smooth and a little thin with a below average length finish. Could this really have dropped off this badly in less than 2 months? I will have to try a really fresh bottle, because this was really strange and terribly underwhelming.

Bottle. Pours orange with a sticky cream-colored head. Aroma is intensely floral, soapy and very fresh. Palate is mildly carbonated and quite dry throughout. Flavor starts surprisingly mild given the aroma, some orange citrus and lemon. It turns more bitter towards mid-palate, transitioning into a hoppy, hot finish. Overall, a decent tasting DIPA, that unfortunately stops short of being truly tasty. Flavors may in fact be a little too soft and muddy for me.

I have had this many times and have never been impressed. That being said, I have never had it fresh, so it might be better than I think it is, but whatever, here goes... The aroma is mostly sticky sweet malt with flat old hops that have some grapefruit and citrus but are mostly cheese to me. Pours a golden orange pour with a thin head. The flavor is also just too sticky sweet for me. It does become fruity, but like gross hard candy fruit or something. Light bitterness rounds out the finish, but the hops are flat and old. Every bottle I have ever had has been like this... Too sweet and malt heavy. West Coast IPA please?

Bottle. Aroma is sweet grapefruit and malt. Hazy orange amber body, off-white head. I usually enjoy most offerings from Stoudts, but to my preference this is WAY too sweet. The fruity sweetness just does not work with what is struggling to emerge of a bitter IPA nature. Flavor conflict, pure and simple.

Sharp hop bite with a nice alcohol warmness. A bit of pine and sweetness. Good IPA.

Pours a clear yellowy golden with a dense offwhite head, lots of bubbles streaming to the top. The nose is bitterly hoppy citrus. Light sweet malt. A bit creamy. Alcohol and a hint of graininess. Creamy full mouthfeel with moderate to high carbonation. Sweet creamy light malt with sharp hop bite. Very bitter. Citrusy hop flavor, orange particularly. Some alcohol lends itself to the hop bite’s intensity and goes with the malt nicely. Grainy aftertaste is the biggest downside. A bit boozy, but in a good way.

Like the commercial description says, it pours a deep golden color (not especially hazy) with a small off-white head. I found the aroma to be sweet and hoppy. The flavor was less hoppy than I expected, having a more fruity sweet taste, and the alcohol content was apparent in the taste. This is a good double IPA that was different from the others I have tried.

Deep orange pour with a nice, white head. Sweet, fruity, hoppy aroma. Flavor is grapefruity, piney, fruity. Seems like this is a bit of an older bottle, but it’s held up surprisingly well. Would love to try this frech.