Ballast Point Dorado Double IPA

Brewed by Ballast Point Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Diego, California USA

Sampled at Ballast Point, RBSG ’08. Somewhat of a cloudy copper with a white head. Orange juice-laced Pac NW citrusy hop nose! Pretty sweet, there’s a solid amount of residual sugars in here to balance the bitterness, which is ample. Very citrusy hop flavor - grapefruit/orange. Full, round and creamy on the palate with moderate carbonation. Good stuff.

Bottle. Pours a beautiful, hazy, deep orange-amber with a big, creamy off-white/yellowish head. The head soon sinks, but leaves a fine lacing all the way down the glass. The aroma is dry hops with a faint hint of liquorice. As it warms, notes of pine escapes the hops and a wooden maltiness appears. In the vicinity of the glass there’re remote whiffs of port. The moment the beer enters the mouth, the flavour is sweet and fruity in just a split second, but lurking behind it there’s a mean hop bitterness waiting to strike – in a sudden instant it’s there, overtaking the flavour, filling the mouth, almost paralyzing the taste buds to anything but itself. When the taste recovers, notes of pine and strong, but well-balanced alcohol is found. The moment it’s sunk, the bitterness turns to liquorice in a slightly astringent finish that also reveals notes of plums and apple well hidden behind the bitterness. Palate is thick, bordering oily, and almost laces the mouth. A great beer. 05-08-08.

Bottle @ Dutch Ratebeer Session. Aroma has citrus (grapefruits). Bit hazy, orange coloured with a lasting off-white head. Taste has tangerine and medicin, is astringent. Has bitterness and some fruity sweetness. Quite unbalanced in taste, aroma was much better.

Bottled, bought in Vejle. Clear orange color, short head. Aroma is fruity, very hoppy. Bitter taste, fruity, very dry. Quite astringent. Has a weird medicinal aftertaste, of grinded pills. Overdone.

Bottle:Bottled. Big thanks to Tomas & Magnus. Hazy orange colour, with a nice creamy head. Aroma of citrus,flowers,some granynes was there too. Flavor was werry citric,fruity mouth feeling,nice medium body, and a long fruityfinish. Great beer!

Bottle @ DTS. Sugary but also firnm hopbitter aroma with grapefruit and red berries. Grapefruityflavor with mint and loads of hops. Even a bit medecinal, but the grapefruit overrules all other flavors. Huge grassy and citrussy hopbitter aftertaste.

Dutch tasting session Bunnik. Bottled. Opaque, white head. Hoppy nose, grapefruit. Astringently bitter flavour, some tangerine, and a some medicinal flavour. Suberb aroma, disappointing flavour.

Bottle@DTS. Very fruity aroma, mainly grapefruit, light grassy. Hazy, dark yellow color, off-white head, good lace. Very sweet start, apple and other fruits, thin medicinal and very grassy in the finish. Sticky and very dry in the finish. Out of balance, over done.