Arcadia Batch 999 Imperial IPA

Formerly brewed at Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

(Bottle) Pours a murky burnt orange body with a large beige head. Aroma of cherry, orange juice, banana bread, butterscotch, pine, and spices. Flavor of caramel malt, fruit, hops, and breadiness with a fizzy, bit over-carbonated mouthfeel.

Dark orange/brown color with a huge chunky milkshake head of big bubbles. Aroma is very strong thick hops. Flavor is dark sticky hops. Nice body and a clean finish.

Pours a cloudy copper with a huge tan ghhead. Smells perfumy initially with some malt and nuts. The hops have blended nicely with the malt on the nose. Tastes of tealike hops and lots of malt. Unusual but good.

Big thanks to Styles. OMG what a huge head. The smell of malt and pine. Color was a foggy tea color. Very low carbination, but also very smooth tasting. I tasted lots of malt and hops and somehting sweet I can’t quite put my finger on. Head stays throughout the whole beer. Not much of a bitter aftertaste, although it was present.Nice lacing. Lots of floaties from the hops out of the bottle. Hell Yeah

Bottle shared with Hogtown Harry and Blankboy, thanks Harry. Weird murky hazy brown, thick white head. Mild malt and hop aroma, some citrus, hint of spiciness. Not bad. Very citrus hop taste. And watery. Old, musty and thin as well. Pretty good though, just old, but it does lack in body. Interesting stuff, glad I got a chance to try it.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry and tupalev -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours a very hazy orange-brown with an average size diminishing off-white head. Interesting hoppy aroma -- sweet, floral and citrusy. The flavour’s very hoppy and watery at the same time with a decent malt base and a nice bitter finish. Pretty good but a little thin, perhaps a little past it’s prime.

Bottle (12oz). Shared with blankboy and tupalev, my bottle, via trade with Pailhead - thanks!!!. Poured hazy deep orange with a decent straw head. Aroma - strong resin and orange/lemon citrus hops, yeast and light roast malt. Taste is quite hoppy a bit of bottle metal (it IS retired), but still an elegant senior citizen, finish is a tad bitter. Mouthfeel is a bit watery and harsh, astringent, nicely carbonated - this would have been pretty major in its day.

Bottle. Insanely over carbonated. Hoppy aroma, tainted a bit with a sour nose. Citrus orangy hop flavors, with fairly sweet caramel malt, and the hops become grapefruit toward the end. Lingering clean bitterness. Body was a tad acidic.