 WeeHeavySD (1711), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
Apr 21, 2008
12oz bottle bonus from a ways back, not sure from who. Pours gold orange with a tan head. Nose is sweet and hoppy with lots of resin. Taste is overall pretty nice and big, with a lingering citrus hoppyness. Good overall brew.
CharlesDarwin (1380), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Sep 3, 2008 12oz Bottle. G5. Mildly oxidized juicy barleywine-like hop punch. Soapy, yeasty and delightful. Pours a hazed golden-orange, with a rim in white. Flavor is puckery and totally old. Devasted celery seed weeps of hop dust. Chewy and creamy, but totally beyond a double IPA deceny. There’s some hot yeast-alcohol phenols that really hold through and probably would have been obliterated by the hop juiciness, when fresh, but now it dominates the profile of the beer in a peculiar way. In the end, how hard can I be on a past-its-prime hoppy beer. I’m glad to have tried it. I can see through some of the age to what the beer may have been. Thanks Sean!
blutt59 (682), Dallas, Texas, USA
Aug 20, 2008 bottle, orange tangerine color with an off white short lived head, nose is graham cracker and pines, flavor is excellent blend of pine, grapefruit, lemon and graham crackers, melds nicely as it warms up
omhper (10456), Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 17, 2008 Bottled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Clear reddish amber, mid-sized head. Aroma of citrus peel and blood grape. Sweet, soapy and perfumy with medium-full body. Some light caramel and black currant, well rounded mouthfeel. The bitterness is strong, but never assaulting. It imay be well sweet, and there are certainly American beers that has both more intense and more delicious hop character. The soft mouthfeel and good balance however lifts it several notches.
ante (2503), Stockholm (Bromma), Sweden
Aug 15, 2008 Bottled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Hazy amber with a small white foam. Sharp frity arom aof immatue white grapefruits, chardonnay grapes and metal.Nearly full-bodied with notes of elder, grapefruit and resin. Resiny warming finish of citrousy fruits.
TOSG55 (32), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Aug 7, 2008 Bottle. Pours a light orange, with a thin white head that dissipates slowly. Aroma is floral hops. Flavor is citrusy hops, well-balanced with sweet, honey-like malt flavors. The 9% ABV is very noticeable, but not unpleasant. Very drinkable. Certainly one of the better imperial IPAs out there, and quite reminiscent of the excellent Bell’s Hopslam.
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