Barleys Double Dog Dare IPA

Brewed by Barleys Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Columbus, Ohio USA

On firkin, firkin a. Name sounds oddly familiar. Pours a hazy golden copper color with a decent sized off white head. Aroma is floral hops, caramel malt, grapefruit. Flavor is citrus, caramel malts, floral hops, alcohol. Palate is medium to full bodied, medium carbonation, nice bitter finish. Smooth and creamy, awesome stuff! The entire firkin went during the few hours I was there.

Date: 08/26/2006
Mode: Growler
Source: Tasting, Fest of 26

Appearance: clear light amber,
Aroma: big sweet sappy pine tar aroma,
Body: sticky body,
Flavor: flavor has a lot of sweetness, good citrus, strong lasting bitterness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

From a growler at DLD: A slightly hazed coppery hue with a small but lasting foamy white head and good lace. The nose is pure hop wonderfulness with massive resiny and citric aromas, pepper and clove, and just a hint of bready malt. The taste starts bitter and never backed off, a tour de force of hop bitterness. Name your hop characteristic and it is in there! (resin, leafy, pine, clove, grass, metallic, grapefruity, pineapple, etc...). If there is any malt character on the palate it only shows with a biscuit note on the aftertaste along with a huge astringent punch. The mouth feel is aggressive and sharp, dry and powdery, slightly warming with the alcohol mostly hidden. A big beer for the hopheads! Thanks Cow-lumbus crew for the chance to taste this.

On tap at Barley’s Smokehouse. Murky orange color with a thin off white head that quickly disapated. Sharp hop resin nose with hints of hair spray, orange juice and apricot. Thinnish mouthfeel given the size of the beer. Lots of hop tea, pine resin, apple and apricot. The alcohol is well hidden and only shows itself as a burn in the finish, which is long, bitter and dry.

Golden-amber color. Aroma of pine, citrus, and some floral hops. Taste is hoppy & sweet with just enough malt to make it smooth. Good DIPA, but doesn’t match the Four Seas.

On tap at Nomad Pub, Milwaukee. Great aroma, citrusy, piney, some floral. Taste was of spices, grapefruit, hops. Very bitter. A well-balanced beer. I would recommend this one.

Date: 4/28/2007
Event: DarkLord Day 2007
Location: Three Floyds Brewing Co. Parking Lot
Serving: Sampled from a growler.

Tasting Notes
Aroma: Some caramel malt and citrus hops.
Appearance: Hazy orange color; foamy light beige head.
Flavor: Sugary sweet malts and citrus/pine hops.
Palate: Medium body and smooth.
Overall: Good, but not very complex. Probably one of their better offerings (in my opinion).

1 liter hand bottled from brewery. Acquired thru trade. Poured out a deep, hazy caramel brown color, with a sticky tan colored head. Aromas are of sticky, piney hops, sweet malts, and alcohol. Flavors are of alcohols, piney hops, caramel, and rum soaked raisins. Thick body, thick mouthfeel too. Finished somewhat sweet & hoppy. Decent take on the style.