Arcadia Hopmouth Double IPA

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

22 oz bottle from Shorline Beverage. Aroma is a complex beast... hoppy with a nice floral component and pineiness and to be sure but nicely backed by a biscuit/ toffee malt character. Hints of spice, like cinnamon and nutmeg. Hazy amber in color with a firm beige head. Flavor was nicely balanced for a Double IPA. Good malt backbone and strong hop presence. Again, hints of spice were evident. Palate was rich, as would be appropiate, very nice carbonation level, high residual sugars balanced the bittering hops well. Overall a nice beer to try, might be worth another try to see if the spice notes are a common theme or a bottle variation due to cross country shipping, but not significantly different from other DIPAs.

22 oz bottle via Ogglethorp (thanks!). This one pours a hazy amber with a chunky monstrously large head. Nose is pine and grapefruit. Taste starts out hoppy and ends hoppy. Moves from a sweet orange to a bitter grapefruit and finishes with a resiny pine. High carbonation. WAY HIGH carbonation that almost ruins this beer. Subtract several points...Medium body. Good stuff that would be better if it was not over-carbonated. .

The aroma is very hoppy - pine and citrus. The head is frothy/creamy, off white in color, very good lacing, the body is cloudy amber/orange. The initial flavor is a little aceitic/bitter, the finish is a good long bitter hit to the side and then the back of the tongue. The body is medium, the texture is creamy with soft carbonation.

Hazy dark peach juice colored ale, thin white creamy head. Hopped up nose of candied mango and guava, touches of orange and florals, with soft underlying caramel and toffee notes. Tropical fruit and orange hop bitterness up front with hints of florals and sweet caramel rounding this off nicely. Medium bodied, medium carbonation, drying bitter finish. Good tasting brew, but not a standout...

Had this on tap at the Trivia Pub in Moon Township. Looks like any other orangy/yellow pale yellow american style beer but the aroma is hops. Swirl it around in the glass and it appears a little thicker than most beers. Taste is overwhelmed with hops, as expected. The overpowering grapefruit flavor may be a turn off for some beer drinkers. Personally I don’t care for hoppy beer but this is just like any other double IPA.

Bottle. An orange brown color with a laced tan head. A malty and medicinal hop aroma with fruit (apricot, orange, and peach) and flowers. Malty rich but not thick. Fresh liquid hop flavors with orange, grapefruit, wood and flowers.

22oz bomber. Recently available in Mo. Copper color. Aroma is malty, spicy, citrus, and herbal. Taste, at first, is toffee, pine, tart/bitter earthiness, some unripe orange, with a moderate bitter finish that tastes mostly of tangerines, honey, and earthiness. Enjoyable, but not something I would buy again in a $5+ bomber.

Pours nice and hazy deep orange amber with a nice creamy white head which leaves awesome lacing. Has a tart, citric perfumy aroma. Touch of plasticy alcohol, and rubbery?. Seems un-natural somehow. Strange flavor as well. Also has plasticy/rubber notes. There’s some vanilla like sweetness from the malty background. Evident alcohol is present. Hayish, leafy hop bite, grapefruity middle and a long resiny dry finish. There’s something strange about this one. Can’t quite articulate it though.