 LiebeBier (734), RIchmond, Virginia, USA
Mar 1, 2008
Bottle - I was surprised I have not rated this beer. Pours an amber color with a nice head and incredible clarity. Intense pine cone aroma. This beer has a perfect balance of hop bitterness and rich malty flavor. An excellent balance of the two differing styles of IPA - too hoppy or too malty. This is the perfect balance. I expect to pucker up on the finish, but that doesn’t happen. It’s a nice clean finish that leaves you craving more.
fishingnet (737), Brandon, Florida, USA
Jul 20, 2008 Bottle courtesy tpd975. Pours a clear amber with a one finger white head. Aroma of citrus and pine hops with a good dose of sweet malt and caramel. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium mouthfeel with a moderate amount of bitterness and smooth alcohol. Very good.
nearbeer (1101), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Jul 17, 2008 12 oz, bottled 12/26/07. Clear copper with a two-finger head that lasts and laces well. Aroma is fresh grapefruit drizzled with honey. Earthy-dirty honey and molasses flavors are mixed with tea leaf, grapefruit, peppery wood, and pine resin. Medium body is a little sticky and tongue tingly.
Parrothead (161), Ephrata, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 11, 2008 Amber/orange in color, semi-cloudy. Bright citrus/piney nose. Decent off0white head that doesn’t last too long, but doesn’t disappear either. Smooth palate, silky. Nice, well rounded flavor, there’s sweet malt there but the hops are the star here. Good, good stuff. Troeg’s ales outshine their lagers, IMHO.
JorisPPattyn (4247), Antwerpen, Belgium
Jul 8, 2008 Amber, clear beer with small off-white head. Cat’s pee, valerian, grapey hopse, sweet oxfat. Again cat’s pee in the taste, valerian and cassis. Hop’s cake, nearly sweet in the aftertaste, rosewater-like. Medium bodied, bit flat. Nice beer, but "Imperial" is ridiculous, but this is definitely "amber" on a different level. Thanks, CK !
badbeer (391), Iowa, USA
Jul 5, 2008 Clear amber-ish color with a white head that retained well and left good lacing. Smell was plenty hoppy as expected; piney, resiny hops dominate, perhaps a bit of citrus too. There is a little bit of malt prescence, emphasis on the little; this one is plenty hoppy with the same attributes as noted in the nose. Highly carbonated with less than medium body. This is pretty good, would definately drink more of it and it would probably find a good home in my fridge if not for it’s distance from me. Luckily for me I have a somewhat-local brewer making a hoppy amber so no worries for me. Worth trying if you run across it.
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