 fishingnet (885), Brandon, Florida, USA
Apr 26, 2008
Bottle courtesy tpd975, thank you so much for sharing this wonderfull beer with me. Pours golden with a one finger lasting white head that leaves good lacing. Aroma of citrus, pine, honey, caramel, and sweet alcohol. Taste is in you face citrus, pine, caramel, and honey with just a hint of alcohol. Medium full mouthfeel with a strong but well balanced amount of bitterness and almost non existent alcohol. Damn good and IMO beter than Hopslam.
bu11zeye (3875), Frisco, USA
Oct 28, 2008 (Bottle, courtesy of BMan1113VR) Pours a clear orange body with a small white head. Aroma of toasted bread, orange, floral, light cocoa, some pine, and noticeable alcohol burn. Flavor of caramel and toasted malts, hops (orange, resiny, floral), chocolate, and alcohol with a bitter finish.
Swalden_28 (684), McKinney, Texas, USA
Oct 26, 2008 Bottle thanks to BMan1113VR. Pours a Hazy amber with nice white head. Aroma is very hoppy and malty, nice. Flavor is sweet with lots of hoppy flavor and bitterness and alcohol spice. Med. body with med-high carbonation. Good stuff.
BMan1113VR (1104), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
Oct 19, 2008 Bottle thanks to zathrus13. Shared with the Dallas crew at bu11zeye’s place. Beer has more attitude than hops...way more...to bad thats not always a good thing. Pours with a largish white head (would hope so given the name), with a clear ambere body. Great lacing and decent retention. Aroma of floral and spicey hops with a very sweet note eand a bit of booziness. Taste is fruity with darkish malts, boozy with a very bland and unbalanced citrus hop profile. Syrupy mouthfeel. Seems like the brewer just threw everything randomly into the pot.
noncaloric (153), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Oct 18, 2008 Trade from northernbrews. Thanks Jeff! And whoa, aroma hits on popping the cap, no pour required, lots of coniferous hops balanced by worty vanilla malts. Pours a hazy red-gold, medium creamy, off-white head, some lacing even though my snifter isn’t an easy glass to lace. Flavor is coniferous hops, and worty carmelized malts, both intense, but in balance; finish is amazingly bittersweet; alcohol is strong, but harmonzed with the hops, the warmth comes out gingery. Palate is thick, caramelly, warming, not much carbonation.
Schultsc (427), Henderson, Nevada, USA
Oct 8, 2008 Trade from cpferris - thanks Chad.
The name of this beer appears to be a not so subtle dig at Stone, presumably--funny (point for wittiness?). Pours a beautiful clear, medium-dark copper-gold with a thin, creamy, off-white head. Aroma is filled with sweet malt and alcohol alongside dark resinous hops with some citrus notes--not a highly aromatic hops profile here. The flavor is very sweet with alcohol coupled with a thick, dense bitterness profile with flavors of lemon zest and orange peel with pine resin in the background with an edge of spice amidst a bit of a darker malt profile. The alcohol is out of balance here. The bitterness is thick and strong which helps to combat this, but without huge aromatics the finish comes across as somewhat harsh as it sticks around with some warmth. A fun, interesting beer overall that’s a real delight to try--a fun "import" but not a substitute for the genuine San Diego article.
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