Arcadia Hopmouth Double IPA

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

Clear reddish amber pour under a tall rocky off-white head. Very fragrant brew with pine resin and grapefruits bubbling out of the settling head. Citrusy and hoppy flavor but not as well balanced as other impy IPAs. Rich and smooth mouthfeel and a sinister (in a good way) bitter finish with some alcohol sneeking out every half sip or so.

Bottle at GABF 2008. Hazy amber coloured with a medium sized white head. Fruity aroma of hops and pine needles. Fruity flavour of hops and pine needles with notes of caramel and grass. Dry hoppy finish.

Bottle shared at Tom’s house. First beer of the night--always tastes good! Pretty nice stuff here, yet not mindblowing. Sprucey, pine, some citrus.

From a 22 oz. bomber bottle with a blurb along the left side of label, an unnotched bottling/freshness date along the right, sampled at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. Poured a top cloudy, orangey amber with a small foamy slightly off-white head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing. minimal amount of laced sticking. Had a floral and citric nose, a light amount of earthy mustiness as well, with a sweet grainy maltiness, the malty sweetiness add a candied citrus nature to the aroma. Good carbonation and a crisp, dry, a little thin malty, but smooth light bodied mouthfeel. A pleasant tasting DIPA, sappy and citric with a rind bitterness emerging at the end, some oiliness as well, the malts add a sugariness to the hops, giving a candied fruit flavor to the citric hops, the alcohol is barely noticeable and only shows up in the aftertaste, providing a warming presence in the back of the palate, and a dry hoppy, grainy malty finish. Not a bad DIPA from Arcadia, I have to admit, since Arcadia does such a great job with English style ales, I was expecting this to have a more Fuggles flavor, but still, easy, if not dangerous, drinkability.

dark orange with a white head. huge somewhat sweet piney citrus aroma. flavor is nice and bitter with a little malty sweetness just not much going on. body seems a bit light for an imperial ipa. the finish falls flat and seems a bit watered down. decent just a little disappointing for an imperial ipa.

Bottle. Pours an orange amber body with a tan head. Loads of hop resins, pine, and grapefruit. Hints of peach and citrus. Spicy with a nice alcohol warming. Solid beer.

Bottle. Golden/ orange colour with a beige head. Aroma is hop, citrus. Flavour is hop, citrus, fruit, malt. Bitter finish. Pleasent beer.

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.