 jbye4334 (652), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Oct 2, 2009 (bomber). Cloudy brownish copper color. Large, rocky off-white head. Pine hop aroma. Strong hop and alcohol flavor. Avg duration. Slightly astringent finish. Slick texture. Soft to moderate carbonation. Good lacing.
paytoplay (122), , California, USA
Oct 2, 2009 Thick and rich and great to try single varietal hops. 4 pack for $12. guess it was fresh. big texture like younger and also doesn’t go sweet like it seems like it might. ok complexity but it’s just the 1 hop. learning experience. if this was available locally it would be in the rotation for sure.
radioseer (9), Virginia, USA
does not count  Oct 1, 2009 12 ounce bottle: I like the simcoe hops, has a citrus taste to it. The after taste is a little too bitter for me but over all a good beer.
joeneugs (289), Livermore, California, USA
Sep 28, 2009 pours a dark orange color with an orangy head. It has a syrupy aroma of tropical fruit, peach, caramel, and toffee. The flavor is very sweet and thick with caramel, toffee, peach primarily. There’s an overpowering piney finish that surprises me after such a sweet beginning. Inky almost. A good beer, but my palate was a little overpowered.
kuphish (150), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Sep 26, 2009 Bottle courtesy of Eithcubes. Elegant pour. Average sized, dense, creamy, ultra fine tan head. Fairly hazy, deep amber body. Aroma is like a handful of hops...no, like burying your head in a bag of hops. Big Simcoe flavor - pine, citrus and some tropical fruit/mango. Zero malt aroma, but the hops are supposed the be the showcase here. Huge hop flavor. More pine and the aforementioned fruit - both come through in spades. Chewy caramel malt provides the requisite sweetness so that the hops can really shine through. Though the flavors are big, they don’t shred aggressively like some DIPAs. Full bodied, average carbonation, lightly sticky palate. Fairly sweet up front, but it dries out considerably. Big bitter (though not harsh) hop finish. Overall an excellent DIPA - I wish more could be like tihs. I’m usually not a big fan of the style, as I find it very sloppy and generically big...but this beer is a treat and exemplifies what more DIPAs should strive for. Love the showcase of a single hop, as well!
eboats (887), Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Sep 25, 2009 Poured orange with a good size off white head. Smells sweet with hops and spices. Tastes bitter like liking an old rusty piece of metal. Somewhat sweet between the initial flavor of metal and the finish. Very average, and I love hops. The problem here is the hops are too one dimensional, and the beer lacks real flavor. I felt like it just tried to overload me with IBUs. The more I drink this the more it feels like my tongue is being dragged over pavement.
popery (133), San Francisco, California, USA
Sep 17, 2009 I absolutely love the Simcoe hop, and Weyerbacher has done an excellent job at . I’m terribly lucky to have Pliny the Elder easily available year round, not to mention the many other great California DIPAs and IPAs. Even with all those great choices, I wouldn’t hesitate to put this beer in my normal hops lineup if it were distributed out here. The Simcoe hop has a wonderfully complex flavor. It’s citric, piny and floral all at once. The feel is a tad dry, but it hardly detracts. The malt backbone is able to stand up to the assault of hops and lend enough sweetness to bring out the full flavor of the hops. I’m enjoying this beer very, very much.
SudsMcDuff (1691), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
Sep 16, 2009 search: people in walls .. . wonderful stuff, fresh grass and light catpee .. . dark copper gold .. . med head .. . easy drinking .. . smells of summer, weird .. .
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