Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA

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

Thanks to mcbackus for this. Pours a hazy orange-red with yellow highlights and a creamy off-white head, nice lacing, long lasting....looks excellent by my standard. Aroma is oddly subtle to me for the style. Definitely floral, like a large garden/plantstore, orange juice, grapefruit, and more cranberry than I’ve ever smelled from a IIPA, and a healthy dose of alcohol. Not much malt on the nose, but it’s...subtle. Tastes well balanced with plenty of caramel, brown sugar, cranberry and orange juice, grapefruit, raspberry, and a bit of booze (both in flavor and heat). Finishes remarkably flavorful with as much hop flavor as before, but with a more piny and grassy sting, some woody bitterness, and a bit of booze here as well. Awesome mouthfeel, thick, very very creamy, and slightly sticky, just enough to be nice. Aside from the heat and too subtle aroma, this is quite nice! Took some time to win me over though.

Nice hearty, hazy orange pour with pretty good head leaving some lacing on the glass. Obvious pine aromas waft off the top as well as some citrus blasts and calming vanilla and caramel scents. Nice piney, hop flavors which are strong but held in check by a toasty malted touch, but still prove to be the dominant attribute. Fairly well balanced and smooth. Good beer

Taste 8/8 Bottle Looks: Clear copper with a thin head that clings. Aroma: Pine, chewy caramel malt,floral, fried chicken(just seeing if you are paying attention). Taste: Medium to full bodied. Quite hoppy, but the Simcoe is floral, soapy and citrus. No hop style is too overbearing. Nice malt balance. Good body, yet drinkable for something of this size. Abv is well hidden. Really good, finish is a little puckering in the cheek asking for more brew.

deep amber pour, with a huge frothy sticky off white head. HUGE pungent hop aroma, quite skunky, and intense. Big notes of citrus, and pine. The body is thick, and full. Flavour is very hoppy, this is a mega hop bomb. THis is extreme beer. Extremely bitter, the 9% doesn;t show a bit. Excellent DIPA.

Bottle thanks to ucusty. Pours with a very large, creamy thick, off-white head covering a hazy, deep orang body. Fantastic lacing and full retention. Aroma is beautiful citrus hops with tons of caramel. Taste is a bit hot up front with matls and finishing with a nice bitterness. Alcohol is clearly there in the taste, but it is great in its hop bomb goodness. Creamy mouthfeel coupled with playful carbonation.

22oz. bomber: This one pours a hazy orangish-amber color. There was a bit of a frothy tan head on it that dropped off somewhat quickly. It left some lacing. Both the citrus and pine hops are quite obvious to the nose, yet they seem to be balanced nicely. The pine and citrus notes of the hops are evident in the taste, and are well balanced also. Potent but not over the top. Actually a hint of malt sweetness in the finish. This one is pretty well done!

Poured from a 12-oz bottle a dark amber color. Not surprising, a hoppy aroma was real prevelant. Taste of citrus and pine in the hops, but could taste some malt coming through also. Although mostly, it was about the hops.

I like IPA’s but this beer was just TOO strong for me. I liked the first half of it but by the end my mouth was just raw. TOO HOPPY!