3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20Bottle, while sitting at the bar at D’s in Regent Square just outside of downtown Pittsburgh. Pours a dark orange with a clotted creamy thick head that settles in a few minutes. Nose is more like barleywine that’s hopped up and I really believe that this should be considered a barleywine more than a 2IPA. The hop is unbelievable in that there is only one in this beer as it is spicy and flavorful, then a smooth slide into a great closing bitterness. I’m not sure that I’ve had the Phoenix hop before, but I am impressed with it. I actually still smelled and tasted some citrus in this, but definitely lots of malt and flavor - hard to describe the flavors as the sweetness was evident and the viscosity was very big... smooth, but sticky and probably too much body (syrup like, not velvety). This was good though, and well worth a try.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Golden-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, alcohol, pine. Flavour is fruit, malt, alcohol, pine, orange, caramel. Nearly too much.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Thanks to blutt59 for sharing this bottle on 12-3-11. Orange with a cream-colored head. Aroma is full of candy sugar, pine, orange and biscuits. Flavor is tobacco, booze, orange and leather. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. pours cloudy amber with an off-white head. Aroma of minty hops, malt, some oxidized notes and some caramel. Flavor is sweet and bitter with some flora and minty notes. Medium body, average carbonation. Ages well .
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. It pours an orangey dark golden body and almost no head. The aroma still has a good hoppyness, altough faded. Pine cones and resins and a good dash of orange zest. Maltyness too. It’s quite bitter in the mouth, with malty sweetness trying to balance it. Pine cones, orange and some phenolic notes. Lasting bitter finish with a nice sugary maltyness. Even though it’s more than six years old, it’s a nice DIPA. 130216
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 650ml @ fonefan
Pours cloudy deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, oxidization and fruits. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium bitter. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle @ The 4th Annual Fastelavns-Smagning Ulfborg, 2013. Pours hazy orange with a white head. Dust and oxidation. Caramel and vinous notes. No hops left. Barley wine sipper like. Hot.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste unfortunately are oxidated and hardly any hops left in the nose. Finish is long and bitter though with some alcohol as well.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Hazy amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, oxidized, hops, fruit and caramel. Flavour is malt, caramel, oxidized, hop, medium sweet, little grapefruit, little pine, notes of alcohol and quite bitter.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Hazy reddish amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, oxidized and moderate hoppy. Flavor is quite sweet and very bitter. Dry and very bitter finish. 160213
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Had this for a long time. Very hazy amber, thinner head but leaves some lacing. Bigger malty nose but not overpowering, hints of citrus and some pine. Flavor is prompt and potent. Hop bite from the get-go, obvious malt profile and green hop flavor. Big and large, not the most clean and distinct tasting. I guess the cloudy appearance is somewhat representative of the over all flavor. Perhaps this could have come across a bit better had I handled it better over the last few years.
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