Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA

Pours a peachy orange amber with a medium creamy light orange head. The aroma is sweet, has some light spice, resiny, citrusy, piney. Has a strong bitterness to the flavor, waxy, sweet resiny hops, spicy dry warmth. Delicious .

Bottle from kmweaver. Thanks Ken! Pours with a small head with small bubbles that linger in small cloud-like wisps over the amber liquid. Wonderful medium hop aroma, and some melanoidal malt that stands out as soon as you pop the cap. Very, very easy to drink (that’s why I gave it a palate of 5). I find myself taking gulps. Medium body. Pretty interesting, with all the hop aroma and flavor, the bitterness is low. Not mediciny and the grapefruit bitterness is also low. Interesting. Great beer

Nice amber color with a distinct hop aroma. Full of hops but not overwhelming, a nice burst and then a smooth finish. Gotta love those hops

12 oz bottle from MrBendo. Pour is reddish orange with a nice off white head. Head is very lasting and the carbonation is visible. Aroma of grapefruit citrus and some earthiness. Taste is really bitter (nice!) grapefruit, really very in your face. The middle fades a bit into a nice malt backbone, but the story with this one is the initial rush of grapefruit. There is a real nice sticky resin to the finish. As it warms, there is a unique spice to the nose I can’t quite place. This was a good one. Thanks for this one Todd!

Double Simcoe IPA is a jewel-like red amber ale with a big, messy, yellowed off-white head. It is frothy and irregular and won’t let go of the glass. Excellent. I can smell it from across the room. There is something spicy, almost like allspice, grapefruit peel like cascades but softer and more wooden. The aroma is a bit sweet. The silky medium body lightens as it goes. Exquisitely supple; leaves the tongue slick. It’s bitter as all get-out! It’s like grapefruit juice with tree bark. The aftertaste never really comes-- it just keeps going. The malt provides a slightly sour and biscuity backdrop. Bombastic!

Draft @ Primo’s in Rockland Maine. Pours Dark amber with a half finger faded tan head. Nose is nice and big with sweet hops. Taste is sweet sticky with rolling hops, very nice and certainly an east coast DIPA. Damn nice DIPA.

Date: 07/01/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

Appearance: hazy amber, huge cream head, thick lace,
Aroma: sweet piney aroma,
Body: thick creamy body,
Flavor: huge grapefruit flavor from begin to end, lots of sticky sweetness, nice long ESB style bitter finish,
Overall: stays hoppy and sweet a couple of hours later as the last of the 22oz bottle is finished up,
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Date: 02/29/2008
Mode: bottle
Words: road trip

Aroma: sweet fruity aroma with pine and citrus and maybe a subliminal hint of ammonia,
Flavor: big sweet crystal malt flavor with lots of pine and citrus, sweet fruity peach character, lasting bitterness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4

Cole’sIPA Fest. The aroma of west coast hops is incredible, deep orange, a small custard head. Flavour is absolutely orange, pinecones, some fabulous malt underpinning this bad boy. Full bodied, very well balanced, extra bitter. Marvellous!