 JasonG (700), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 24, 2005 Updated: Mar 12, 2006Very cloudy dark amber color with smallish white head. Aroma is full of resiny, citrusy hops, with hints of caramel and cherry. Flavor is hoppy, dry, citrusy, herbal, notes of honey and caramel.
Aubrey (2774), Denver, Colorado, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 18, 2005 Bright, apple-hued glow. Mellow carbonation; soft texture. Chewy-sweet caramel malt flavors. Grassy bitterness. Dripping with pine juice. Overall, kind of stark and odd in some ways; flavors and aromas didn’t seem to meld very well. All right beer, but nothing special.
WabashMan (801), Noblesville, Indiana, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 14, 2005 As far as IPAs go, this one was certainly not one of the greats. It really seemed to lack in anyn body or character beyond the hop profile. While I love the hoppy brews, this just didn’t have much else going for it.
Styles (1653), Lincoln Park, Michigan, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 2/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 14, 2005 Pours dark golden/orange with off white head. Lots of resiny hops, very bitter hop esters, very extract like. Flavor is all hops through and through almost no malt for balance whatsoever. Great hop profile just lacks malt and body. Just o.k. IMO.
Crosling (1854), Loveland, Colorado, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 13, 2005 Powdery, vitamin-like hop aroma, with hints of pine, lemon and grapefruit. The smell if soft, lke a pillow, not expressive like the best Double IPA’s. Nice mouthfeel. The flavor is, well, like a high alcohol 1.25 IPA. Not very hoppy, considering the potency and style, in the mouth, this is equally as malty as it is hoppy. Butter toffee, toffee and caramel flavors, while the hops accent the finish, with a fine pine-like, bitter hop finish.
Ernest (4483), Boulder, Colorado, USA
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 10/20 |
Nov 13, 2005 Head is initially small, frothy, off-white, fully diminishing. Body is medium amber. Aroma is lightly malty (caramel, toasted bread), moderately hoppy (resin, apricot). Flavor is moderately sweet, moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately acidic, heavily bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. Poorly balanced, boring and one-dimensional.
Murphy (1759), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 13, 2005 No head. Clear dark orange. Aroma is citrus hops, lots of alcohol. Taste is caramel, toffee, big bitter hops and of course alcohol. Finish is bitter and alcoholic, dry. A ho-hum beer, too alcoholic.
muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 11/20 |
Nov 8, 2005 22 oz bottle from Sams in Chicago (Oct 2005), cellar temperature in a tulip. Lasting slight off-white cap topping a clear coppery body with hints of watermelon...big PNW nose, though hardly a "blast" or "assault", with lots of vanilla-caramel in there as well...very sweet, tending toward syrupy in its initial entrance, but big citrusy/sprucy bitterness bursts forth quickly and in the process dries out the finish and wipes out the sweetness, leaving a tingly but vaguely unsatisfied conclusion with hints of cardboardiness and stale rye...doesn’t really work for me, alas.
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