 mtoast (283), City of Rust, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 18, 2007
12oz Bottle, drank 8/17/07, no bottling date. Pours a nice hazy bright orange color with fluffy foam that leaves great lacing and sticks around the entire glass. Aroma is dead. Nothing. No typical wonderful simcoe goodness, just a little hint of malt and faint grapefruit. Very disappointing. First sip is harsh bitterness surrounded by lots of maltiness. Almost seems like they added all the hops as kettle hops and forgot about finishing and/or dry hops. Don’t think my bottle was old, didn’t have any of the telltale signs of an old ipa, just seemed like something went terribly wrong with this.
undsioux7 (491), Cologne, Minnesota, USA
Sep 6, 2008 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.
Bungalo22 (282), Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Sep 4, 2008 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.
Haslinger (525), Syracuse, New York, USA
Sep 1, 2008 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
37steel (186), St. Charles, Illinois, USA
Aug 28, 2008 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.
otakuden (85), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
Aug 28, 2008 The more IPAs I try, the more I am coming to appreciate the huge diversity of the style itself, how integral each hop is to flavor profile, palate, and the overall end result.
My Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA poured a rich dark gold with hints of brown. Almost immediately a huge head of fluffy foam and tightly packed bubbles rise to the rim of my glass. It takes a minute or two for the nicely packed head to slowly simmer down into a thick ring around my glass while leaving a thin layer floating on the top. A couple swirls, and she eagerly foams right back up again. Massive and gorgeous brussels lace adorns the sides of my glass, sticking like a finely crafted spider’s web. The nose can barely contain the huge notes of sweet sap, wet pine needles, oils, and hints of citrus such as orange and grapefruit. A huge nose to match her huge head. I haven’t even taken a sip yet and I am already bowled over by the Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA. Her body is one of foamy and frothy textures that practically float in my mouth. A full body, but very light in weight. Sweet sap and fresh oily pine notes dazzle. With Simcoe hops on top and in the back of the palate, an almost instant dryness appears in the finish, demanding I come back for more. I also detect notes of grapefruit and bitter orange rind. From start to finish, Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA leaves brussels lace marking her path to completion. A perfect blend of malts in the backbone to keep her smooth while all of her fresh oily pine, sweet sap, and citrus notes seduce the senses.
Move over Two Hearted, Double Simcoe IPA from Weyerbacher brewing has officially ousted you as my favorite IPA to date. Amazing. This is an IPA I may have to have in my fridge on a permanent basis.
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