Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Thanks Daknole. A very cloudy brown / amber colored beer with an off white head that quickly forms a ring. Aroma is very sweet and very fruity. Some caramel as well. Flavor jumps up and down and screams "I am hops!" Grapefruit and pine but with a full caramel malt profile. A very aggressive flavor and it has to be the best tasting double IPA I have had. Just delicious (and I am not a hophead). Big, bold, ballsy, brash. Late in the glass some nice dark fruit shows up. That was unexpected. Alcohol isn’t tasted but provides warming and my liver is not happy with me. I can get a transplant, give me another one of these!

12oz bottle. Pours a deep orangey copper that is slightly hazy. A thin light tan head pours up at first, but fades into a thin, but persistent, disc that leaves a fair bit of long-legged and splotchy lace on the sides of the glass. The aroma is very hoppy - resiny with some grapefruit and hints of tropical fruit along with hints of sweet caramel and honey. The odor of alcohol is also apparent, although far from off-putting. The flavor starts balanced and very bitter - balanced meaning there is good bit of malts and residual sweetness that manage to carry it. The bitterness is intense and coats the tongue thoroughly, leaving it dry. The bitterness is earthy, sharp, and piney. The bitterness tastes a little more neutral and clean as the beer nears the back of the tongue. The finish is bitter with some herbal, citrus, evergreen, and earthy characters. There is a touch of sweetness throughout, but it is overpowered in the finish leaving the beer dry and very hoppy. The end of the beer is slightly warming with alcohol - but overall the alcohol is well-hidden. The mouthfeel is well-bubbled but not overcarbonated - just bubbly enough so that the carbonic sting enhances/increases the perceived bitterness. The mouthfeel is very big in body and a little slippery and resiny. Overall, a decent double IPA but not quite as good as I was hoping. It tastes balanced at first, but the hops hammer back the malts by mid-palate resulting in a slight astringency. It is a very good beer - but I was hoping for something truly marvelous based on word-of-mouth about this one...

Pour is very nice cloudy amber with a bountiful off-white head that stays the length of the drink. It’s all spicy resinous floral hoppage up in my face when i smell, maybe an underlying sugary sweetness. Tastes like a hopgasm. Friggin’ wow dude, that’s hoppy. Very resinous tasting to me, like i just swallowed half a pine cone. Completely awesome. This beer has serious IBUs, so if you can’t handle man beer, just don’t even try. This one will make you piss hops for a week. I guess there’s a little sweet malt backbone too, if anyone even cares in a beer like this.

Second rating – Tap Capital Ale House Innsbrook 08/31/2008. Big cat piss aroma. Clear amber orange with small white fine head. Flavor is definitely hop accentuated over backbone of caramelized malts and touch of fruit. Medium body and medium/full mouthfeel. Sweet finish with tea like hop flavor and touch of alcohol warming. _______ Off firkin wet hopped by brewery Capital Ale House Downtown 08/28/2008. Big grassy floral hop aroma with hints of herbs – parsley. Someone’s cat loose in here ? Murky orange amber with persistent rocky tan head. Big Simcoe hop flavor definitely leans to hop bitterness but enough caramelized malts to balance. Light body with medium bitter mouthfeel and very dry bitter finish with hint of alcohol.

Pours a deep amber with a decent off white head. Aroma of grass, flower, pine, grapefruit. The taste is hops hitting you up front and not relenting. There is some caramel malt to hold it up, but not for long. The hops are a bit chewy. Well done, but not my favorite hop.

Hops, hops and more hops in this one. There are hops and some citrus tones in the aroma. There are a ton of hops on first taste and they hit you going all the way back. The head is full, fluffy and white and the lacing this beer leaves is great. After the inital shock I settled in and really could take my time drinking this one. The alcohol never showed up but just a sweet backbone with a ton of hop spicing. A great double.

bottle, the aroma coming off this snifter is like sex, pure liquid hop sex. Incredible. The taste is less focused on the sex and more on the pure amazingness of this beer. It’s hoppy but also very bready malt. Great great beer. Definite buy again

12 oz bottle. Dark golden with hints of amber. A nice big off-white head. Huge aroma of grass and pine. Strong malty sweetness to start with a big punch of bitterness at the end.